Test 1 Doctrine

• Jesus holding cross
• God on right side
• Spirit all encompassing

• Life FROM father
• death IN son
• resurrection BY holy spirit

• Life: god gave abraham and his barren wife a son
• Death: they were not going to trust god 
• Resurrection: taken out of egypt and into holy land

church practice demonstrating paradigm

• vital: scripture, worship, etc. 
• Cultural: things from media and folklore, etc.

we do what works for us, if it works to be a Christian then we go for it

god is creator but not sustainer

belief in god sanctions exploitation of the weak

we hold on to God as all knowing when our parents aren't all knowing and this makes us inner children

all that exists is will and letting God be our will does not let us exercise it to our fullest extent

god is an ideological projection of our personal values; personification

God becames a symbol that empowers community life

arguments come from exhaustion over european wars relating to religion

• God is hidden/unknown unless He reveals Himself to us 
• God is so fundamentally different from us that it takes effort for Him to reveal Himself
• the only real place we see god is on the cross which is the one place we need eyes of faith to see Him

what God has shown to particular people at particular times

we take a human trait and multiply it by infinity and assume that is what God is

everything we aren't God is; wholly other

this language is important because Sonship implies inheritance

unmediated, created out of nothing

many specialized gods that can all be worshipped

competing powers good and evil

all is god and the universe is self-created because the universe IS god

without god. the universe is self-actualized on its own accord

the universe preexisted and god did his best to make it good

the universe is co-evolving with god and both are becoming perfect

god creates out of creation or through creation

create the distinctions and then fill them

creator god is evil and Jesus came as a God 2.0 to reform the world

god made the rules of science and he let them play out

Providence, God's continued creation

creation is unfree and controlled and manipulated by God

this is why God kept saying "And it was good"

God's coming creation, the New creation

Goal, Point, End