condensed theology lecture 21

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Condensed Theology

A Primer in Systematic Theology


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Anthropology:

The Doctrine of Man

What does the Bible teach about

humanity?


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The Fall of Man


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The Fall: Its Events

Gen 3:4-7: The serpent said to the woman, "You surelywill not die! For God knows that in the day you eat from ityour eyes will be opened, and you will be like God,knowing good and evil." When the woman saw that the

tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to theeyes, and that the tree was desirable to make one wise,she took from its fruit and ate; and she gave also to herhusband with her, and he ate. Then the eyes of both ofthem were opened, and they knew that they were naked;

and they sewed fig leaves together and madethemselves loin coverings.


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Thus the fall of man refers to humanitys

first transgression of a divinecommandment; its first contravention of a

divine mandate

1 Tim 2:14: And it was not Adam who wasdeceived, but the woman being deceived, fell

into transgression.


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Thus the fall of man refers to humanitys firsttransgression of a divine commandment; its firstcontravention of a divine mandate Hos 6:7: But like Adam they have transgressed the

covenant; There they have dealt treacherouslyagainst Me.

Exod 19:5-6: Now then, if you will indeed obey Myvoice and keep My covenant, then you shall be My

own possession among all the peoples, for all theearth is Mine; and you shall be to Me a kingdom ofpriests and a holy nation. These are the words thatyou shall speak to the sons of Israel.


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The Effects of the Fall


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The Fall: Its Effects

1. Alienation from God

2. Enmity with God

3. Isolation from and hostility betweenmembers of the human family

4. Futility in nature

5. Death


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Effect 1

Alienation from God


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The Fall: Effect 1:

Alienation from God

Man hid himself from Gods immediatepresence Gen 3:8-10: They heard the sound of the

LORD God walking in the garden in the coolof the day, and the man and his wife hidthemselves from the presence of the LORDGod among the trees of the garden. Then the

LORD God called to the man, and said to him,"Where are you?" He said, "I heard the soundof You in the garden, and I was afraidbecause I was naked; so I hid myself."


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The Fall: Effect 1:

Alienation from God

God denied man access to his immediatepresence

Gen 3:23-24: Therefore the LORD God sent

him out from the garden of Eden, to cultivatethe ground from which he was taken. So Hedrove the man out; and at the east of the

garden of Eden He stationed the cherubimand the flaming sword which turned everydirection to guard the way to the tree of life.


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Effect 2

Enmity with God


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The Fall: Effect 2:

Enmity with God

Man was now at odds with God

Gen 3:12: The man said, The woman whomYou gave to be with me, she gave me from

the tree, and I ate.


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The Fall: Effect 2:

Enmity with God

God was now at odds with man

Gen 3:23-24: Therefore the LORD God senthim out from the garden of Eden, to cultivate

the ground from which he was taken. So Hedrove the man out; and at the east of thegarden of Eden He stationed the cherubimand the flaming sword which turned everydirection to guard the way to the tree of life.


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The Fall: Effect 2:

Enmity with God

God was now at odds with man Gen 3:16-19: To the woman He said, I will greatly multiply

Your pain in childbirth, In pain you will bring forth children;Yet your desire will be for your husband, And he will rule

over you. Then to Adam He said, "Because you havelistened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten from thetree about which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall noteat from it'; Cursed is the ground because of you; In toilyou will eat of it All the days of your life. Both thorns andthistles it shall grow for you; And you will eat the plants ofthe field; By the sweat of your face You will eat bread, Tillyou return to the ground, Because from it you were taken;For you are dust, And to dust you shall return."


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Effect 3

Isolation from and Hostility

between Members of the HumanFamily


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The Fall: Effect 3:

Human Isolation and Hostility

Gen 3:7: Then the eyes of both of themwere opened, and they knew that theywere naked; and they sewed fig leaves

together and made themselves loincoverings.

Gen 3:12: The man said, "The woman

whom You gave to be with me, she gaveme from the tree, and I ate."


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The Fall: Effect 3:

Human Isolation and Hostility

Gen 3:16: To the woman He said, I will greatlymultiply Your pain in childbirth, In pain you willbring forth children; Yet your desire will be for

your husband, And he will rule over you. Gen 4:7: If you do well, will not your

countenance be lifted up? And if you do not dowell, sin is crouching at the door; and its desire

is for you, but you must master it.


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Effect 4

Futility in Nature


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The Fall: Effect 4:

Futility in Nature

Gen 3:17: Then to Adam He said,"Because you have listened to the voice ofyour wife, and have eaten from the tree

about which I commanded you, saying,'You shall not eat from it'; Cursed is the

ground because of you; In toil you will eat

of it All the days of your life.


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The Fall: Effect 4:

Futility in Nature

Rom 8:19-22: For the anxious longing of thecreation waits eagerly for the revealing of thesons of God. For the creation was subjected to

futility, not willingly, but because of Him whosubjected it, in hope that the creation itself alsowill be set free from its slavery to corruption intothe freedom of the glory of the children of God.

For we know that the whole creation groans andsuffers the pains of childbirth together until now.


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Effect 5

Death


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The Fall: Effect 5:

Death Gen 3:19: By the sweat of your face You will eat

bread, Till you return to the ground, Becausefrom it you were taken; For you are dust, And todust you shall return.

Gen 3:22-23: Then the LORD God said,"Behold, the man has become like one of Us,knowing good and evil; and now, he mightstretch out his hand, and take also from the treeof life, and eat, and live forever therefore theLORD God sent him out from the garden ofEden, to cultivate the ground from which he wastaken.


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The Fall: Effect 5:

Death

Although death was possible before thefall, it was not necessary

The effect of the fall was to make it

necessary by Gods curse upon man


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The Fall: Its Effects:

Review

1. Alienation from God

2. Enmity with God

3. Isolation from and hostility betweenmembers of the human family

4. Futility in nature

5. Death


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Adams Fall and Ours


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Adams Fall and Ours

1. By nature being cursed as well as man

2. By the womans curse being related toher childbearing

3. By the enmity that would ensue betweenthe seed of the woman and the serpent

Gen 3:15: And I will put enmity Between youand the woman, And between your seedand her seed; He shall bruise you on thehead, And you shall bruise him on the heel.


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Adams Fall and Ours

4. By the names Adam & Eve Gen 2:20: The man gave names to all the

cattle, and to the birds of the sky, and to

every beast of the field, but for Adam therewas not found a helper suitable for him.

Adam means man or mankind.

Gen 3:20: Now the man called his wifes

name Eve, because she was the mother ofall the living.

Eves name means life.


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Adams Fall and Ours

In addition to the indications of the effectof the fall on Adams posterity expressedin Genesis 3

The Scripture teaches that Adam wasacting for the entire human race in theGarden of Eden.

This means that when Adam sinned, hesinned for all of us, as the representativeof humanity.


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Adams Fall and Ours

Rom 5:12: Therefore, just as through one mansin entered into the world, and death throughsin, and so death spread to all men, because allsinned.

Rom 5:15a: by the transgression of the onethe many died.

Rom 5:18: through one transgression there

resulted condemnation to all men. Rom 5:19: Forthrough the one mansdisobedience the many were made sinners.


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Adams Fall and Ours

So when Adam sinned, he sinned for all ofus, as the representative of humanity.

Rom 5:12: Therefore, just as through one

man sin entered into the world, and deaththrough sin, and so death spread to all men,because all sinned.

Rom 5:19: Forthrough the one mansdisobedience the many were made sinners.


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Adams Fall and Ours

Guilt


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Adams Fall and Ours: Guilt

Because of Adams sin for us, God counts

each of us guilty; for sin entails guilt

Rom 1:18-3:20 teaches that all the world isguilty before God;

Rom 5:12-19 teaches why


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Adams Fall and Ours

Inclined towards Evil


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Adams Fall and Ours:


Not only did we sin in Adam and receivedthe punishment of death for our guilt

We also became sinnerswe becamepeople who were irresistibly inclinedtoward evil in our very natures


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This sinful nature, this irresistibleinclination to sin has two components:

1. We arenot good

2. We dono good


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We arenot good Gen 6:5: Then the LORD saw that the

wickedness of man was great on the earth,

and that every intent of the thoughts of hisheart was only evil continually.

Ps 51:5: Behold, I was brought forth ininiquity, And in sin my mother conceived me.

Ps 143:2: And do not enter into judgment withYour servant, For in Your sight no man livingis righteous.


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We arenot good

Jer 17:9: The heart is more deceitful than all else Andis desperately sick; Who can understand it?

Luke 11:13: If you then, being evil Eph 4:17-18: So this I say, and affirm together with

the Lord, that you walk no longer just as the Gentilesalso walk, in the futility of their mind, being darkenedin their understanding, excluded from the life of Godbecause of the ignorance that is in them, because ofthe hardness of their heart.


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We arenot good

Eph 2:1: And you were dead in your trespasses andsins.

Rom 7:18a: For I know that nothing good dwells inme, that is, in my flesh [my fallen nature].

Titus 1:15: To the pure, all things are pure; but tothose who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing ispure, but both their mind and their conscience aredefiled.

See Rom 1:18-32


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Inclined towards EvilWe DoNo Good

Ad F ll d O


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We dono good

In fact, we are incapableof doing any spiritualgood in terms of a relationship with God.

Rom 8:7-8: because the mind set on theflesh is hostile toward God; for it does notsubject itself to the law of God, for it is noteven able to do so, and those who are in theflesh cannot please God.

Ad F ll d O


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We dono good

In fact, we are incapableof doing any spiritual good interms of a relationship with God.

Heb 11:6: And without faith it is impossible to pleaseHim, for he who comes to God must believe that He isand that He is a rewarder of those who seek Him.

1 Cor 2:14: But a natural man does not accept thethings of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness tohim; and he cannot understand them, because theyare spiritually appraised.

Ad F ll d O


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We dono good

In fact, we are incapableof doing any spiritualgood in terms of a relationship with God.

John 3:3, 5: Jesus answered and said to him,Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born

again he cannot see the kingdom ofGod.5Jesus answered, Truly, truly, I say to

you, unless one is born of water and the Spirithe cannot enter into the kingdom of God.

Ad F ll d O


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We dono good In fact, we are incapableof doing any spiritual

good in terms of a relationship with God.

John 6:44, 65: No one can come to Meunless the Father who sent Me draws him;and I will raise him up on the lastday.65And He was saying, For this reason

I have said to you, that no one can come toMe unless it has been granted him from theFather.

Ad F ll d O


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We dono good

Eccl 7:20: Indeed, there is not a righteousman on earth who continually does good and

who never sins. John 8:34: Jesus answered them, Truly,

truly, I say to you, everyone who commits sinis the slave of sin.

See Rom 3:9-20


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Ad F ll d O


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Sins Universality

Since we are guilty sinners by imputationand by nature,

It follows that sin is a universal problem;

that is, that no member of the humanfamily is exempt from the effects of the fall.

Ad F ll d O


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Sins Universality

Ps 14:3: They have all turned aside,together they have become corrupt; Thereis no one who does good, not even one.

Ps 143:2: And do not enter into judgmentwith Your servant, For in Your sight noman living is righteous.

1 Kgs 8:46: When they sin against You(for there is no man who does not sin).

Adams Fall and O rs


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Sins Universality

Prov 20:9: Who can say, I have cleansed myheart, I am pure from my sin?

Rom 3:23: for all have sinned and fall short ofthe glory of God.

1 John 1:8-10: If we say that we have no sin,we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is notin us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful andrighteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanseus from all unrighteousness. If we say that wehave not sinned, we make Him a liar and Hisword is not in us.


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Adams Fall and Ours

Final Consequences for Sin



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Final Consequences

Though we will address the finaldestination of humanity in our lectures oneschatology,

We would be remiss if we did not mentionsomething about the final consequencesfor sin.



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Adam s Fall and Ours:

Final Consequences

Rom 2:5-6: But because of your stubbornnessand unrepentant heart you are storing up wrathfor yourself in the day of wrath and revelation of

the righteous judgment of God, who will renderto each person according to his deeds.

Rev 21:8: But for the cowardly and unbelievingand abominable and murderers and immoral

persons and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars,their part will be in the lake that burns with fireand brimstone, which is the second death.


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Adams Fall and Ours

Summary


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Adams Fall and Ours: Summary

When Adam sinned, he sinned for all of us, asthe representative of humanity. Imputed guilt

Tendency toward evil

Universality of sin

This teaching is called Original Sin;

Not because this was mans firstsin,

But because the sin that is ours has its origin inus as a consequence of the fall.

Final consequences: the judgment of hell


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Adams Fall and Ours

The Effect on Man as the Imageof God



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The Image of God

Man is still Gods image-bearer

Gen 9:6: Whoever sheds mans blood, By man hisblood shall be shed, For in the image of God Hemade man.

1 Cor 11:7: For a man ought not to have his headcovered, since he is the image and glory of God

Jas 3:9: With it we bless our Lord and Father, andwith it we curse men, who have been made in the

likeness of God.

Psalm 8



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The Image of God

Thus we must understand sin to affect usas the image-bearers of God in terms ofdistortion, not destruction.

We are not as fully like God as we werebefore we fell.

Eccl 7:29: Behold, I have found only this, that

God made men upright, but they have soughtout many devices.


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Adams Fall and Ours

Common Grace


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