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While we can only speculate, it's likely that Jesus didn't write because His mission was to build up faithful disciples who would become His witnesses to the rest of the world.

The view that truth is determined relative to the subject.

No. It would only be narcissistic for someone who is not God. But as a morally perfect being, God is the only person worthy of worship.

All human beings are created in the image of God, which means they possess a soul accompanied with rationality, consciousness, volition, and a sense for moral and aesthetic value. 

A somewhat misleading name, skeptical theism is the philosophical view that we should remain skeptical about our ability to know the exact reason(s) God has for His actions and His refraining from certain actions

Because the point of the resurrection appearances was not to try to convert or convince any given person. Instead, the point was to establish the apostolic testimony that Christ had indeed risen from the grave. Today, we have all the testimony necessary for belief the resurrection. 

To become our holy mediator before God, to fulfill the law by living a perfect life, to resist temptation, to make atonement for our sin and defeat death by physically dying and bodily rising from the dead (Heb 2:14-18)--none of which we could do for ourselves. Hence, the efficacy of redemption depends on the humanity of Christ. 

The proper method for interpreting Scripture consisting of various literary and historical contexts.

No. Receiving eternal life means sharing in the experience of the perfect inner trinitarian life of God; it means ultimate fulfillment. 

Divine election is the view that God has chosen a people--namely, the body of Christ--for eternal blessings. 

The ontological or immanent Trinity is a purely intellectual distinction that articulates the Trinity in its state of being apart from God's relation to the world. 

A Trinitarian heresy first associated with the third-century theologian Sabellius, according to whom God is a single person who presents himself as three different "modes", the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

Based on the context, blasphemy against the Holy Spirit is to attribute the work of the Holy Spirit in bringing about the promised Kingdom of God to the worldly kingdom of Satan (Matt 12:22-32; Mark 3:22-30).

According to John Hick, all religions are true in themselves as they point to a higher reality. 

In basic philosophical terms, free will is the freedom to choose A or not A. 

Accepting the benefits of God's generosity while intentionally placing one's own interest over and above God. 

To set apart time to cease from work and acknowledge God as Creator, Sustainer, and Redeemer. It is not merely resting from exhaustive work. 

Evil is a privation of goodness. Think of the relationship between cold and heat, or darkness and light. 

Yes. Paul argued and debated with Jews and Greeks regarding the truth of Christ (Acts 17-18). However, it must always be done with gentleness and respect (1 Pet 3:15).

No. Christians believe God is triune, while Muslims and Jews believe God is a single person.

No. While we are no longer under the law, it does help instruct us. 

The inner witness of the Holy Spirit (Jn 14:26; 15:26; 16:13).

Yes. God loves the world despite its wickedness (Jn 3:16; Rom 5:8)

It is the discipline of providing rational warrant for a particular view.

Atheism is the belief that God does not exist.

The belief that only one God exists. Islam, Judaism, and Christianity are the main monotheistic religions.

The belief that God(s) exists.

The mission of Israel in the OT is centripetal: the nations were to come to Israel to seek YHWH. Conversely, the mission of the church in the NT is mainly centrifugal: the church is called to go out to the nations. 

Of course not. God is an immaterial being and is therefore neither male nor female. 

The most widespread view is known as the Correspondence Theory of Truth, according to which a statement is true if what it refers to actually corresponds to reality -- if it is how the world really is. 

At the most fundamental level, God is the objective standard of morality. Moral goodness is always consistent with God's character. 

No. Science is the study of the natural order of the physical world. Miracles are supernatural interventions upon the naturally-ordered physical world. These are two different categories. 

Creationism is the view that every human soul is specially created by God and joined to each respective human body.

Traducianism is the view that the human soul is generated out of the process of sexual reproduction. 

The discipline of extracting the truth of a biblical text by utilizing hermeneutical principles.

It's possible. It depends on which literary genre is correct.

Rather than saying the elect are individuals who have been selected for salvation, the biblical view is that the elect are those who are in Christ.

The economic or functional Trinity is a purely intellectual distinction that articulates the Trinity according to the unique roles of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit in the plan for salvation.

No. According to 1 John 3:2, Christ will completely transform us into His likeness, having a full loving relationship with God. Because of which, we will never desire to turn away. 

According to the classical conception, God is an eternal, self-existent, necessary being. Therefore, God is not created being.  

God has eternally existed as one being or substance and three coequal divine persons, known as the Father, Son, Holy Spirit.

It can, but when employed rightly, philosophy provides clarity for certain biblical teachings by advancing helpful terminology and conceptual analysis. Philosophy complements while not overruling Scripture when used properly. 

Grace is an unmerited gift or favor. God's grace is freely given rather than duly earned.

In the simplest sense, faith is believing and trusting in something for good reason. 

(1) Those who reject Christ will repeat sin throughout eternity and thus incur an infinite penalty. 

(2) Sin is committed against a morally perfect God and is therefore held in infinite moral contempt.

No. Genesis does not teach about evolution.

The Bible doesn't give a clear answer. However, it's safe to conclude that God transcends time in some manner.

Yes. It preaches a message antithetical to the teachings of Jesus. 

No. The Holy Spirit may use arguments to help persuade an unbeliever. 

No. Temptation becomes sinful when it is surrendered to. For Jesus was tempted in every way and yet did not sin (Heb 4:15).

Yes. The majority of people do not require rational arguments before believing in God.

Agnosticism neither claims that God exists nor claims that God does not exist; an agnostic simply withholds an affirmation or rejection of theism. 

The belief in many gods. For instance, Hinduism and Pagan religions.

Deism is a subcategory of Theism that claims God exists as a distant, impersonal creator.

Yes. There are theological, philosophical, scientific, and historical arguments for Christianity.