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1. What is likely to happen to a church or denomination that gives up learning systematic theology for a generation or longer? Has that been true of your church? 2. Pray for God to make this study of basic Christian doctrines a time of spiritual growth and deeper fellowship with him, and a time in which you understand and apply the teachings of Scripture rightly. 3. Do you think you would pay more attention if God spoke to you from heaven or through the voice of a living prophet than if he spoke to you from the written words of scripture? Would you believe or obey such words more readily than you do Scripture? Do you think your present level of response to the written words of Scripture is an appropriate one? What positive steps can you take to make your attitude toward Scripture more like the kind of attitude God wants you to have? 4. When you think about the many ways in which God speaks and the frequency with which God communicates with his creatures through these means, what conclusions might you draw concerning the nature of God and the things that bring delight to him? 5. Have you had doubts or questions about the canonicity of any of the books of the Bible? What caused those questions? What should one do to resolve them? 6. Mormons, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and members of other cults have claimed present-day revelations from god that they count equal to the Bible in authority. What reasons can you give to indicate the falsity of those claims? In practice, do these people treat the Bible as an authority equal to these other “revelations”? 7. If you want to persuade someone that the Bible is God’s Word, what do you want that person to read more than any other piece of literature? 8. Who would try to make people want to disbelieve something in Scripture? To disobey something in Scripture? Is there anything in the Bible that you do not want to believe? To obey? If your answers to either of the preceding two questions were positive, what is the best way to approach and to deal with the desires you have in this area? 9. As Christians go through life learning to know their Bibles better and growing in Christian maturity, do they tend to trust the Bible more or less? In heaven, do you think you will believe the Bible is inerrant? If so, will you believe it more firmly or less firmly than you do now? 10. If you agree with inerrancy, do you think belief in inerrancy should be a requirement for church membership? For teaching a Sunday school class? For holding a church office such as elder or deacon? For being ordained as a pastor? For teaching at a theological seminary? Why or why not? 11. If even seminary professors disagree about some Bible teaching, can other Christians ever hope to come to a correct decision on that teaching? (Give reasons for your answer.) Do you think ordinary people among the Jews at the time of Jesus had a hard time deciding whether to believe Jesus or the scholarly experts who disagreed with him? Did Jesus expect them to be able to decide? 12. Does the doctrine of the clarity of Scripture mean that the New Testament can be fully understood by people who do not have access to an Old Testament? 13. Do you nourish your soul on the spiritual food of the Word as carefully and diligently as you nourish your body on physical food? What makes us so spiritually insensitive that we feel physical hunger much more acutely than spiritual hunger? What is the remedy? 14. Is it a hopeless task to work for civil legislation based on standards that accord with God’s moral principles in Scripture? Why is there good reason to hope that we will finally be able to persuade a great majority of our society to adopt laws consistent with scriptural norms? What would hinder this effort? 15. In the process of growing in the Christian life and deepening your relationship with God, approximately how much emphasis have you placed on reading the Bible itself and how much on reading other Christian books? In seeking to know God’s will for your daily life, what is the relative emphasis you have put on reading Scripture itself and on reading other Christian books? Do you think the doctrine of the sufficiency of Scripture will cause you to place more emphasis on reading Scripture itself? 16. If the Bible contains everything we need God to tell us for obeying him perfectly, what is the role of the following in helping us to find God’s will for ourselves: advice from others; sermons or Bible classes; our consciences; our feelings; the leading of the Holy Spirit as we sense him prompting our inward desires and subjective impressions; changes in circumstances; the gift of prophecy (if you think it can function today)? 17. When is your inner sense of God’s existence strongest? Weakest? Why? In which of these situations are you in a condition more like the one you will have in heaven? In which of these types of situations are your judgements more reliable? 18. Do most people today believe in the existence of God? Has this been true throughout history? If they believe that God exists, why have they not worshipped him rightly? 19. Sometimes people say that heaven sounds boring. How does the fact that God is incomprehensible yet knowable help to answer that objection? 20. Do you want to go on knowing God more and more deeply for all eternity? Why or why not? Would you like sometime to be able to know God exhaustively? Why or why not? 21. If you sin against God today, when would it start bringing sorrow to God’s heart? When would it stop bringing sorrow to God’s heart? Does this reflection help you understand why God’s character requires that he punish sin? Why did God have to send his Son to bear the punishment for sin instead of simply forgetting about sin and welcoming sinners into heaven without having given the punishment for sin to anyone? Does God now think of yours sins as forgiven or as unforgiven sins? 22. If you sing praise to God today, when will the sound of that praise cease being present in God’s consciousness and bringing delight to his heart? Do songs of praise to God have any ultimate meaning? What about trusting in him hour by hour or obeying him throughout each day? Knowledge 23. When should we try to hide our thoughts and deeds from God? How is your answer to this question a blessing for your life? Mercy 24. If you were to reflect God’s mercy more fully, for whom among those you know would you show special care during the next week? Power 25. If God’s power is his ability to do what he wills to do, then is power for us ability to obey God’s will and bring about results in the world that are pleasing to him? Name several ways in which we can increase in such power in our lives. Will, Freedom 26. As children grow toward adulthood, what are proper and improper ways for them to show in their own lives greater and greater exercise of individual will and freedom from parental control? Are these to be expected as evidence of our creation in the image of God?
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1. What is likely to happen to a church or denomination that gives up learning systematic
theology for a generation or longer? Has that been true of your church?

Systematic theology can be said to be a method of studying the word of God that opens
believers to see God’s well order, His consistent, and His unchanging system of doctrines.
A church or a denomination that practices systematic theology does not impose their own
believers to the scripture but rather makes the believers understand and also be able to
articulate the system of doctrine. Systematic theology also acts as a solution to some of the
shortcomings of some of the Biblical theologies. A church or a denomination that does not
practice systematic theory does not have a clear understanding of the system of doctrine. It
also leads to the wrong attitude about the word of God. Due to the wrong attitude that
believers may possess the word of God it may lead to unbelief. Also if the church neglects
systematic theology false teachings will find their way to the church and people will lose
their faith in God. This has been evident in my church where systematic theology has been
neglected hence allowing false prophecies and false teachings. Most believers in our church
have turned their faith from God and have projected their faith on materialistic things like
money, property, and fame.

2. Pray for God to make this study of basic Christian doctrines a time of spiritual growth and
deeper fellowship with him, and a time in which you understand and apply the teachings
of Scripture rightly.

Heavenly Father, I thank you for your everyday blessings, your unconditional love, and the
gift of life. I thank you for this study that I am undertaking; the Christian doctrine. I pray
that this lesson is of great significant impact to my life and to the lives of those who
undertake it. I pray that the Christian doctrines I learn help me in applying the teachings of
the scripture in a rightful manner. Let this Christian doctrine be of spiritual nourishment in
my life and in the lives of those I interact with. I pray this In the name of the Father, the
Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen

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3. Do you think you would pay more attention if God spoke to you from heaven or through
the voice of a living prophet than if he spoke to you from the written words of scripture?
Would you believe or obey such words more readily than you do Scripture? Do you think
your present level of response to the written words of Scripture is an appropriate one? What
positive steps can you take to make your attitude toward Scripture more like the kind of
attitude God wants you to have?

Yes, I will pay more attention to God if He spoke to me from Heaven or through the voice
of a living prophet. This is because the scripture does not do a good job in trying to
convince people of the existence of God. It is more of an authoritative script than a
convincing book to believing in God. The scripture has so many questions that are
unanswered and many of the people who want to believe seek the answers to this questions.
If God was to speak to us directly, people would get the chance to have all their questions
answered. A school of thought argues that the scripture was written by human beings like
us and as it’s in the nature of all human beings, we are subject to manipulation and
misunderstanding. Hence, what is written in the scripture are not necessarily Gods words
but the understanding of a human being. I would believe in the words of a living scripture
or the voice of God than the scripture. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion and my
Own opinion seeks to see the scripture to be untrue or unreliable. The positive steps that I
should take in believing in the scripture include; believing the scripture to be God’s will to
all mankind, having faith that what is written in the scripture is true and portrays God’s
intention to human beings, reading the scripture more often to try get a deeper
understanding of the things articulated, and creating a positive energy to want to believe in
something greater than us.

4. When you think about the many ways in which God speaks and the frequency with which
God communicates with his creatures through these means, what conclusions might you
draw concerning the nature of God and the things that bring delight to him?

God speaks to his creatures through so many ways which include through the Bible,
through natural occurrences, through prayers, through miracles, and some might argue

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through visions and dreams. We can, therefore, draw a conclusion about the nature of God
based on His means of communication to creatures and the frequency of His
communication. God is loving. He cares about the troubles that His creatures go through
and hence this portrays His loving nature to his creatures. God is powerful. He speaks to
his creatures through miracles which in human nature are impossibilities in our normal life.
He intervenes in situations in life that many of his creatures may find it impossible hence
making Him all powerful. God is omniscient. He knows everything including all our
troubles and our happiness. Through this nature, God is able to communicate to his creature
about the problems they might be facing. God is immutable. He speaks
anthropomorphically. This means he uses human terms to be understood and this may
include the visions and dreams people have or through a prophet. God delights when we
make prayers to him, He delights when we avoid the way of sin when we obey His
teachings and commandments, when we give thanks to Him for all He has provided, when
we do justice, and when we love each other as we love ourselves.

5. Have you had doubts or questions about the canonicity of any of the books of the Bible?
What caused those questions? What should one do to resolve them?

Yes I have had questions about the canonicity of the books of the Bible. The canonicity of
the books of the Bible refers to the standards that books had to meet to be appreciated or
recognized as scriptures. The Roman Catholic Bible has 73 books while the Protestant
Bible has 66 books. This is because there are some books that for the Protestants do not
meet the standards to be called a scripture while for the Roman Catholic they do meet the
standards. What caused me to question the canonicity of the books of the Bible is that why
are there extra books in the Roman Catholic Bible called the Apocrypha and not in the
Protestant Bible, who witnessed the creation of the world to write about it, who decided
which books were truly inspired by God. To resolve the canonicity of the books of the
Bible one should ask themselves the following...


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