Knowing Faith

Jen Wilkin, JT English, and Kyle Worley discuss what it means that God is Holy & Loving.

Questions Covered in This Episode:

• Who is God?
• What’s an incommunicable attribute?
• What’s a communicable attribute?
• What does it mean to say God is holy?
• Is holiness a communicable attribute?
• How does holiness relate to the concepts of justice and righteousness?
• What does it mean to say God is love?
• How is God’s love different from what we often think of when we hear the word love?
• Is love a communicable attribute? How does that shape the way we love others?

Helpful Definitions:

• Trinitarianism: God eternally exists as one essence and three distinct persons, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit, each of which is fully God, yet there is One God.
• Incommunicable Attribute: Things that are true about God, that are only true of God and are not true of anyone else.
• Communicable Attribute: Things that are true about God, that can also become true of us.
• Holy: Utter purity of character.
• Sanctification: The Spirit is our Helper as we grow in holiness through obedience to God’s commands.
• Just: To be holy in dealings with other people.
• Righteous: Someone is holy; in alignment with the character of God.
• Loving: A static disposition of the will towards His people.

Resources Mentioned in This Episode:

• Isaiah 6, Exodus 15:11, 1 Samuel 2:2, Leviticus 11:44-45, 19:2,  20:26, Matthew 5:48, 1 Peter 1:16, Hebrews 12:14, 1 Thessalonians 4:3 & 7
• Training the Church Cohort
• Texas Bible

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Kyle Worley is joined by Dr. Geoff Chang to answer the question, did Charles Spurgeon believe in a big God?

Questions Covered in This Episode:

• Did Charles Spurgeon believe in a big God?
• What is one thing from Spurgeon that you have been spiritually encouraged by?

Guest Bio: 

Dr. Geoff Chang serves as Assistant Professor of Church History and Historical Theology and the Curator of the Spurgeon Library. He also serves the Book Review Editor for History & Historical Theology at Themelios, the academic journal for The Gospel Coalition. He is the author of and the author of Spurgeon the Pastor: Recovering a Biblical and Theological Vision for Ministry.  You can follow him on Facebook and Twitter.

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Jen Wilkin, JT English, and Kyle Worley are joined by Adam Ramsey to discuss what it means that God is omnipotent and sovereign.

Questions Covered in This Episode:

• Why did you write Truth on Fire? What did you learn while reading, studying, and writing?
• What do we mean when we say God is omnipotent?
• Why is it good that God is all-powerful?
• How is omnipotence different from sovereignty?
• How are we supposed to think about humans who hold power and authority as it relates to God’s power and authority?
• When people think about God’s omnipotence and sovereignty, what do you think is one of the first hurdles to embracing this truth?
• How should I feel about God's omnipotence and sovereignty?

Guest Bio:

Adam Ramsey leads Liberti Church on the Gold Coast of Australia. He serves as the network director of Acts 29 Asia Pacific and he is the author of Truth on Fire: Gazing at God until your Heart Sings.

Helpful Definitions:

• Omnipotent: All-powerful.
• Sovereignty: He has the authority to use His power.
• Transcendent: He is other (by an infinite extent).
• Imminent: God is near to his creation.

Resources Mentioned in This Episode:

• Isaiah 40: 28-30, Genesis 1-3, Romans 13, Colossians 1:29, Philippians 2:1-4
• “Truth on Fire” by Adam Ramsey
• “Knowledge of the Holy” by A.W. Tozer
• “Playing God” by Andy Crouch
• “Strong and Weak” by Andy Crouch
• “Evangelism & the Sovereignty of God” J.I. Packer

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Jen Wilkin, JT English, and Kyle Worley discuss what it means that God is Omnipresent & Omniscient.

Questions Covered in This Episode:

• What does omnipresence mean?
• How do we reconcile the fact that God is Spirit with our understanding of God as Trinity?
• I have a spirit and I have a body, that is different from God being Spirit?
• How does technology play into the illusion of omnipresence?
• But what about the Son of God, he can’t be omnipresent can he? He’s in a body?
• Why is this good news?
• What does omniscience mean?
• If God knows everything, is he cruel or powerless?

Helpful Definitions:

• Omnipresence: Everywhere fully present.
• Deism: The belief that God created something and then stepped away from his creation. God is absent and careless about his creation. 
• Pantheism: The belief that God is a 1:1 correlation with His creation. God is powerless because he is his creation.
• Extra Calvinisticum: Teaching that Christ's divine nature cannot be enclosed or imprisoned within a human nature, but remains infinite despite being in union with a finite body.
• Trinitarianism: God eternally exists as one essence in three distinct persons, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit, each of whom is fully God, yet there is One God.
• Transubstantiation (Catholicism) - The view of the Lord’s Supper that the conversion of the whole substance of the bread and wine into the whole substance of the body and blood of Christ.  
• Consubstantiation (Lutheranism) - The view of the Lord’s Supper that the substances both of the body and blood of Christ and of the bread and the wine coexist in union with each other. 
• Memorial (Anabaptist) - The view of the Lord’s Supper that the Eucharist is merely symbolic in nature.
• Spiritual Presence (Reformed) - The view of the Lord’s Supper that teaches that in the elements and in the proceedings of communion Christ is spiritually present with his people.
• Omniscience: All things are known effortlessly and instantly.
• Eternal: Not bound by time.

Resources Mentioned in This Episode:

• Isaiah 44:20, Psalm 139:7, Psalm 74, Job 8:9
• “Enchanted Objects” by David Rose
• Heidelberg Catechism
• Belgic Confession of Faith
• Serial Podcast

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Jen Wilkin, JT English, and Kyle Worley discuss what it means that God is Eternal and Immutable.

Questions Covered in This Episode:

• What’s an incommunicable attribute? How is this different from a communicable attribute?
• Am I an eternal creature?
• What does eternal mean?
• Why is this crucial to our view of God?
• What verse identifies that God is eternal?
• What does it mean to say that God is immutable?
• Why does suggesting that God changes present problems?
• What about passages that seem to indicate that God didn’t know or changed his mind?
• Why is this good news for us?

Helpful Definitions:

• Genesis 1-2, 1 Timothy 1:17, Ecclesiastes 3:11, Psalm 92, Revelation 21:6, Colossians 1:15-20, Genesis 18:16-33, Exodus 32:7-14, James 1:17, Malachi 3:6, Numbers 23:19, Exodus 3:14, Psalm 90:12
• Incommunicable Attribute: Things that are true about God, that are only true of God and are not true of anyone else.
• Communicable Attribute: Things that are true about God, that can also become true of us.
• Eternal: Not bound by time.
• Deism: The belief that God created something and then stepped away from his creation. God is absent and careless about his creation. 
• Pantheism: The belief that God is a 1:1 correlation with His creation. God is powerless because he is his creation.
• Immutable: From eternity past to eternity future God is unchanging. God is always the same.
• Omniscient: All things are known effortlessly and instantly.
• Omnipotent: All powerful.
• Archetypal Knowledge: The knowledge that God has of Himself alone.
• Ectypal Knowledge: The knowledge that God offers His creatures that we can have through general revelation through His creation, through special revelation in scripture, and in Christ.
• Anthropomorphic: A way of expressing, in humanly understandable terms, something that is true.

Resources Mentioned in This Episode:

• “None Like Him” by Jen Wilkin
• “Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise” by Jaron & Katherine Kamin

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Jen Wilkin, JT English, and Kyle Worley discuss what it means that God is Self-Existent & Self-Sufficient.

Questions Covered in This Episode:

• What’s an incommunicable attribute of God?
• Who created God?
• What does God need to survive?
• What do we mean when we say that God is “self-existent?” How is this different from saying God is “self-sufficient?”
• What is Aseity?
• How do we know, from scripture, that God is self-existent and self-sufficient?
• Why is this crucial to our doctrine of God?
• Why is it good news?

Helpful Definitions:

• Incommunicable Attribute: Things that are true about God, that are only true of God and are not true of anyone else.
• Communicable Attribute: Things that are true about God, that can also become true of us.
• Self-existent: God is the origin of all things, uncreated.
• Self-sufficient: God is lacking in nothing, He needs nothing.
• Independent: Not dependent on anything in order to exist.
• Aseity: God is a se, or has aseity: He is self-existent and self-sufficient. 

Resources Mentioned in This Episode:

• Genesis 1:1, Romans 11, Acts 17:24-28

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Kyle Worley is joined by Jared C. Wilson to answer the question, why is it good news that God is omnipresent?

Questions Covered in This Episode:

• Why is it good news that God is omnipresent?
• Can we talk about the omnipresence of Jesus?

Guest Bio: 

Jared C. Wilson serves as Assistant Professor of Pastoral Ministry, Author in Residence, and General Editor, For the Church. He is the author of a number of books including but not limited to Gospel Wakefulness, The Prodigal Church, The Pastor’s Justification, and Supernatural Power for Everyday People. He also serves as an elder at Liberty Baptist Church. He and Becky have been married for twenty-three years, and they have two daughters: Macy and Grace.

Helpful Definitions:

• Extra Calvinisticum: The mystery and wonder of the Son of God being incarnate and at the same time omnipresent.

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Kyle Worley and Rebecca McLaughlin talk about deconstructing; where has this come from and how should we engage?

Questions Covered in This Episode:

• Let’s talk about deconstruction: Where has this come from?
• What is the most helpful way for us to approach people's real questions?
• Don’t we also need cultural deconstruction?
• How often are we deconstructing how culture (sarcasm, the sexual revolution, systemic injustice) has influenced us and our beliefs?
• Can the church be salvaged? Why not just embrace an anti-institutional practice of following Jesus?

Resources Mentioned in This Episode:

• John 6:60-71
• “After Doubt” by A. J. Swoboda

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Jen Wilkin, JT English, and Kyle Worley discuss what it means that God is infinite and incomprehensible.

Questions Covered in This Episode:

• What do we mean by “the attributes of God?”
• What is the difference between incommunicable and communicable attributes?
• What do we mean by “God is infinite?”
• What does it mean that God is incomprehensible?
• Why is this not a problem? What if there is a hidden part of God that I don’t know about, and it’s not good?
• Why is it good news that God is infinite and incomprehensible?

Helpful Definitions:

• Attribute: Something that is true about God, who he is.
• Incommunicable Attribute: Things that are true about God, that are only true of God and are not true of anyone else.
• Communicable Attribute: Things that are true about God, that can also become true of us.
• Infinite: No limit of any kind.
• Omnipotent: All powerful.
• Omniscient: All things are known effortlessly and instantly.
• Revelation: The self-disclosure of God. God Himself is the sole and proper witness to himself.
• General Revelation: God reveals his divine attributes in the world.
• Special Revelation: God reveals who He is in the Word of God incarnate and the Word of God inscripturated.
• Incomprehensible: Not able to be fully understood.
• Apophatic (Negative) Theology: We cannot in language or in knowledge know or rightly articulate the perfect goodness of the nature and character of God. So a more adequate solution than to use words that fail to describe who and what God is, is to use words that describe what he is not.
• Gnosticism: A heresy that plagued the early church. One of the main teachings of Gnosticism was that all physical matter is evil and all spiritual and immaterial things are good. Therefore, the Gnostic view of life was that death would free of us from the physical evil we can’t escape. Gnostics taught that after death, humans left their earthly bodies behind and enjoyed an immortal, spiritual presence with God.

Resources Mentioned in This Episode:

• Acts 17:24-28, Psalm 139:6, 17-18, Psalm 90:2, 1 Corinthians 2:10, John 17:3

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Kyle Worley is joined by Dr. Patrick Schreiner to answer the question, why is it important to emphasize the role of the whole Godhead, the Trinity, in the book of Acts?

Questions Covered in This Episode:

• You wrote a book called the Mission of the Triune God: A Theology of Acts. Why is it important to pan out and emphasize the role of the whole Godhead, the Trinity in the book of Acts?
• Why does this matter?

Guest Bio: 

Dr. Patrick Schreiner is the Director of the Residency PhD program and Associate Professor of New Testament and Biblical Theology at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. In addition he is the author of many books including but not limited to; commentary on Acts, The Visual Word: An Illustrated Guide to the New Testament Books, The Mission of the Triune God: A Theology of Acts, and the recently released Political Gospel.

Resources Mentioned in This Episode:

• Acts 2:33, Acts 15:4, Acts 21, Philippians 2:13
• “The Mission of the Triune God: A Theology of Acts” by Patrick Schreiner

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