Post by RayW on Jul 17, 2013 21:06:33 GMT -8
Post your answers to the following questions:
1. Which of the three positions concerning God’s sovereignty do you think best represent God? Explain.
How does God’s sovereignty relate to the fall of Adam and Eve? Do you think that He planned the fall or simply allowed it to occur?
2. How is the cross a demonstration of God’s righteousness (see Rom. 3:25)?
3. Do you think that the Gospel can be accurately communicated with a presentation of God’s love without reference to His righteousness?
4. Why do you think that it has become less and less common to teach about God’s righteousness?
5. How does it comfort you to understand that God’s goodness, love, and grace are part of His immutable character? Explain.
6. What do we have to do to make God act lovingly and graciously toward us?
How does the understanding that we were created in the image of God help you to answer this?
7. In what ways would it disturb you if you thought that God did not know the future? Explain.
8. In what way would it comfort you if you thought that God did not know the future?
9. Further discuss how Open Theology might be a reactionary theology attempting to answer the question, “Why does God allow evil?”
Discuss the danger of all theology that is constructed as reactionary.
10. How was your thinking most challenged by this lesson?
1. Which of the three positions concerning God’s sovereignty do you think best represent God? Explain.
How does God’s sovereignty relate to the fall of Adam and Eve? Do you think that He planned the fall or simply allowed it to occur?
2. How is the cross a demonstration of God’s righteousness (see Rom. 3:25)?
3. Do you think that the Gospel can be accurately communicated with a presentation of God’s love without reference to His righteousness?
4. Why do you think that it has become less and less common to teach about God’s righteousness?
5. How does it comfort you to understand that God’s goodness, love, and grace are part of His immutable character? Explain.
6. What do we have to do to make God act lovingly and graciously toward us?
How does the understanding that we were created in the image of God help you to answer this?
7. In what ways would it disturb you if you thought that God did not know the future? Explain.
8. In what way would it comfort you if you thought that God did not know the future?
9. Further discuss how Open Theology might be a reactionary theology attempting to answer the question, “Why does God allow evil?”
Discuss the danger of all theology that is constructed as reactionary.
10. How was your thinking most challenged by this lesson?