Theology.
- What is “theology”?
- Systematic theology.
- Orthodoxy: Getting our theological ducks in a row.
- Why orthodox theology?
- The faith statement. (And mine too.)
- Tradition… and why it’s harder to quit than crack.
- Doctrine: Christendom’s fixed ideas. (Mostly.)
- The Nicene Creed.
- The Apostles Creed.
- Are Mormons Christian?*
- “Faith-righteousness”: Saved by what you believe.*
- Bad theology.
- Bad theology: When it’s not based on revelation.
- Who decides what’s orthodox and what’s not?
- Heavily investing time in bad theology.
- Liberal and conservative theology.
- Heresy: When we really get God wrong.
- Humility.
- We’re wrong about God, y’know.
- I am not the baseline. (Neither are you.)*
- Humility, and the “cage-stage” Christian.*
- The lenses we use to do theology.
- Problematic worship music.*
- On revelation.
- Special revelation: God’s gotta tell us about himself.
- General revelation: How to (wrongly) deduce God from nature.
- The whole point of creation.
- The goodness of creation: Matter bad, spirit good?
- When people can see God.
- Hearing God. It’s vital!*
- Miracles: Actual acts of God.
- Our inspired bible.*
- The bible as a source of revelation.
- Those who don’t use bible as a source of revelation.
- On God.
- Yʜᴡʜ. (Or Jehovah. Either way.)
- God is very different from us.
- God’s names. (And a bunch of his adjectives.)
- The “omnis” of God: The ways he’s almighty.
- God’s superabundant riches.*
- Is Allah the same as God?
- On Christ Jesus (Christology).
- Do you know what Christ Jesus really teaches?*
- Jesus is Yʜᴡʜ. Yʜᴡʜ is Jesus.
- When God became human.
- Word!
- Ancient heretic theories about Jesus.
- Jesus’s resurrection: If he wasn’t raised, we’re boned.
- Arianism: One God—and Jesus isn’t quite him.
- The second coming of Christ Jesus.
- Jesus still appears to people, y’know.*
- On sovereignty and predestination.
- Adoption in the Roman Empire—and God’s kingdom.*
- Dispensationalism: Jesus’s most misunderstood teaching.*
- Foreknowledge: Don’t let foreknowledge weird you out about prayer!*
- Predestination and the Ephesians.*
- God is sovereign. (So, our king. Not our puppet master.)*
- Universalism: Is God gonna save everybody?*
- On sin and salvation.
- Total depravity:
- Humanity is messed up, yo.
- Evil comes from within.*
- Pelagianism:“Humanity’s not all that bad.”
- What Pelagius did or didn’t teach.*
- Unlimited atonement:
- Universalism: Isn’t God gonna save everybody?
- Linked election:
- Election: God did choose you, y’know.*
- Justification: How God considers us right with him.
- Indwelling perseverance:
- Quitting Jesus.*
- Prevenient grace:
- God’s unlimited grace.*
- God has forgiven you.*
- Resisting God’s grace. (Don’t!)*
- Arminianism, Calvinism, and Pelagianism.
- Calvinism: The ungracious “doctrines of grace.”*
- The Protestant solas:
- “By faith alone.”*
- On spirits.
- What are spirits?
- Ghosts: The human spirit.
- On trinity.
- Trinity: The paradox in the middle of Christianity.*
- Non-Christian monotheists: One God—but not interpreted through Jesus.
- Modalism: The illusion of three persons in one God.
- Pantheism: God is everything, and everything is God.
- Unitarians: Those who insist God’s not three.
