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[The Christian Apologetics]: The System of Christian Truth (05)
PAUL JANG  2012-02-29 18:55:00, hit : 3,299





B. ANTHROPOLOGY (Àΰ£·Ð)

(1) The whole question with which we deal in apologetics is one of the relation between God and man.

(2) Hence nest to the doctrine of God the doctrine of man is of fundamental importance.


1. The Image of God in Man (Àΰ£¾ÈÀÇ Çϳª´ÔÀÇ Çü»ó)

(1) Man is created in God's image. When we wish to emphasize th efact that man resembles God especially in the splendor of his moral attributes we add that when man was created he had true knowledge, true righteousness and true holiness.

(2) This doctrine is based upon the fact that in the New Testament we are told that Christ came to restore us to true knowledge, righteousness and holiness (Col. 3:13; Eph. 4:24).


2. Man's Relation to the Universe (Àΰ£ÀÇ ¿ìÁÖ¿ÍÀÇ °ü°è)

(1) Man was to be prophet, priest, and king under God in this created world.
(2) The vicissitudes of the world would to a large extend depend upon the deeds of man.

(3) As a prophet man was to interpret this world after God, as a priest he was to dedicate this world to God, and as a king he was to rule over it for God.

(4) In opposition to this all non-Christian theories hold that the vicissitudes of man and the universe about him are only accidentally and incidentally related.



3. The Fall of Man (Àΰ£ÀÇ Å¸¶ô)

(1) The fall of man needs emphasis as much as does his creation. Man was once upon a time created by God in the image of God.

(2) Soon thereafter he fell into sin. As a creatures of God man had to live in accordance with the law of God, that is, in accordance with the ordinances that God had placed in his creation.

(3) When man fell it was therefore an attempt to do with God in every respect. Man sought his ideal of truth, goodness and beauty somewhere beyond God, either directly within himself or indirectly within the universe about him.

(4) Originally man had interpreted the universe under the direction of God but now he sought to interpret the universe without reference to God. We mean, of course, without reference to the kind of God defined above.

(5) Roman Catholic apologetics is unable to make the point that is noted that the Christian and the non-Christian points of view are seen in their fight relationship to one another, clear.

(6) In the field of knowledge the Romanist view of man involves both rationalism and irrationalism. These correspond to determinism and indeterminism in the realm of being.

(7) The Roman Catholic apologist will make his final appeal to \"knowledge in general\" instead of to the self-conscious ontological Trinity.

(8) He will try to prove the existence of God by the method of Aristotle, i, e., by showing that God's existence is in accord with \"Logic in general.\"



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