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| List the 7 General or Catholic Epistles |
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James
1 & 2 Peter
1, 2, &3 John
Jude |
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Wisdom sermon with a Christian orientation
-Letter
-Parenesis
-Wisdom |
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| exhortation, advice on how to live |
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| James: 3 Themes within Structure |
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trials of the Christian life
Wisdom
Riches and Poverty |
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| later, the structure reverses the thematic order previously establised |
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| ethics & practice (James) |
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"against law"
a false doctrine that through God's grace, a Christian is freed from all laws
(including the moral standards of culture) |
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| a repetition of the same phrase |
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| a sermon, a "word of exhortation" |
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-Jesus is God's divine revelation
-returning to a non-Christian form of Judaism is apostasy |
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| Hebrews Theme 1: Christianity |
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| New Covenant in Christ is continuous with the Old Covenant (same God) and superceds it |
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| Hebrews Theme 2: Christology |
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1.) "Son" - incarnate & greater than Moses
2.) Great High Priest - perfected through the obedience of suffering, "order of Melchizedek", mediator of the new covenant |
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| Hebrew Theme 3: Pilgramage to Worship |
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bold access to the divine presence
Jesus is the forerunner |
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| Hebrews Theme 4: Suffering & Shame |
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publich shame & suffering
exhortation to endurance
faith is honored by God |
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| Hebrews Theme 5: Warnings against Apostacy |
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| apostates cannot be restored to repentence |
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suffering Christians
holy lives as God's people
hope |
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| 1 Peter: Elect & Holy (theme) |
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| identity as chose people of God called to live holy lives |
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| alienation with honor in the Gentile world |
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| salvation & glory await those whose faith is tested and found authentic via suffering |
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-Jude, servant of Jesus Christ
-brother of James (adds status) |
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| False Teachers mentioned in Jude |
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| a collection of Jewish writing generally unaccepted by everyone |
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| Pseudepigraphal References in Jude |
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false teachers
Enoch
"Asusmption of Moses" |
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| 2 Peter: Genre (if author is Peter) |
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2 Peter: Genre (if pseudonym)
-evidence |
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"testamentary letter"
-Pseudonymy
-Farewell Discourse
-Apocalyptic/prophetic calling |
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| 2 Peter: Core issues of false teachers |
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-skepticism about eschatological hope
-delay of paraousia |
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| 2 Peter: Ethcal Consequence of False Teachers |
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| libertinism - expressed especially as sexual license |
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2 Peter: Who were the false teachers?
(hint: what group did they belong to?) |
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Proto-Gnostics
Most likely: former Christians influenced by Epicurianism |
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| Christian community which experienced the succession of false teachers |
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| to "the elect lady and her children" |
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to Gaius
berates Diotrephes
comends Demetrius |
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| these are writing to churches threatened by Gnostic-like teaching |
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| Gnostic Problem 1: Claims of Heightened Spiritual Insight |
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-claims to "know" God ->action contradict this claim
-teaching is based on prophetic revelation |
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| Gnostic Problem 2: Christological Error |
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-denies Jesus's humanity
-undercuts atoning significance of Jesus' death |
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a theology where:
-Jesus was born a normal way
-a Christ-Spirit empowered him at his baptism
-Christ-Spirit leaves before the cross |
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| theology where Jesus only "seem" to be human, but he really wasn't |
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| Gnostic Problem 3: Ethical Distortion |
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-opponents were exempt from moral realities
-do not love fellow Christians
-claim to be without sin |
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| Gnostic Problem 4: Troubled Ecclesiastical Politics |
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1 John - evidence of a "church split"
2 John - believers urged not to welcome false teachers
3 John - repremands Diotrephes for not welcoming intinerant preachers |
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| Books Against False Teachers |
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Hebrews (against apostasy)
Jude
2 Peter
1-3 John |
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| Books Mentioning Prosecution |
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1 Peter
3 John
Revelation |
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| Revelation: Title Meaning |
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| "unveiling" or "revealing" |
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Mix of 3:
- Circular Letter
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-Apocalypse |
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| Where was Revelation written? |
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(premillennialism)
-earthy/fantastic conception of the future reign of God |
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| During who's reign was Revelation written? |
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| Revelation: Message (2 parts) |
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-Comfort for those suffering persecution
-Warning for the complacent & compromising |
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| Revelation: 3 Basic Positions |
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Premillennialism
Amillennialism
Postmillennialism |
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| Revelation: 4 Leading Concepts |
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Rapture
Tribulation
Millennium
Second Coming |
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Church age
Tribulational Age
Millennial Kingdom
Final Judgment culminating the new heavens & earth |
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Christ's curent reign over sin & evil
no millennialism (1,000 year reign)
no rapture or tribulation
Final Judgment, then eternal Kingdom of God |
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mass conversion (church growth/prosperity)
->brought into millennial kingdom
Satan makes one last attempt
thrawted by 2nd Coming & Final Judgment
new earth established
ø Rapture or 7 year Tribulation
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| "you shall love your neighbor as yourself" Lev 19:18 |
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