2. Theology
(Greek theo – God, logios – Study
or discourse)
The study of God, His sayings,
acts, and traditions which form a
basis for the belief system of a
Religion.
3. Dogma
The belief system held by a
particular denomination or
religion by which a faith basis it’s
foundational Tenets.
4. Exegetical Inclination
Those opinions which are
espoused from theology, Dogma
and scripture based on a
personal or extra-personal
interpretation.
5. Theological treatises in Scripture:
The Trinity
And God said, Let us make man in our
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image, after our likeness: and let them
have dominion over the fish of the sea,
and over the fowl of the air, and over the
cattle, and over all the earth, and over
every creeping thing that creepeth upon
the earth.
Genesis 1:26
6. Theological treatises in Scripture:
The Trinity
8Also I heard the voice of the Lord,
saying, Whom shall I send, and who will
go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send
me.
Isaiah 6:8
7. Theological treatises in Scripture:
The Trinity
And I will pray the Father, and he shall
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give you another (allos) Comforter, that
he may abide with you for ever;
John 14:16
8. Theological treatises in Scripture:
The Trinity
Go ye therefore, and teach all nations,
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baptizing them in the name of the Father,
and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
Matthew 28:19
9. Theological treatises in Scripture:
God’s Omnipresence
For where two or three are gathered
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together in my name, there am I in the
midst of them.
Matthew 18:20
10. Theological treatises in Scripture:
God’s Omnipotence
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And I heard as it were the voice of a
great multitude, and as the voice of many
waters, and as the voice of mighty
thunderings, saying, Alleluia: for the
Lord God omnipotent reigneth.
Revelation 19:6
11. Theological treatises in Scripture:
God’s Omniscience
Great is our Lord, and of great power: his
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understanding is infinite.
Psalm 147:5
12. Theological treatises in Scripture:
God’s Omniscience
The eyes of the LORD are in every place,
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beholding the evil and the good.
Proverbs 15:3
13. Dogma:
Salvation
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That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth
the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine
heart that God hath raised him from the
dead, thou shalt be saved.
Romans 10:9
14. Dogma:
Communion
24And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and
said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken
for you: this do in remembrance of me.
25After the same manner also he took the cup,
when he had supped, saying, this cup is the new
testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye
drink it, in remembrance of me.
26For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this
cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come.
1 Corinthians 11:24-26
15. Exegetical Inclination:
Obedience (vision)
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Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of
thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy
father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee:
2And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless
thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a
blessing:
3And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him
that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the
earth be blessed.
16. Exegetical Inclination:
Obedience (vision)
4So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto
him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy
and five years old when he departed out of Haran.
5And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's
son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and
the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went
forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of
Canaan they came.
Genesis 12:1-5
18. Fallacies: Ezekial 28:12
12Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of
Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord GOD;
Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in
beauty.
13Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every
precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and
the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the
sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the
workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was
prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.