Kajian Manfaat Alkitab Menurut 2 Timotius 3:16 Dan Implikasinya Bagi Orang Percaya Masa Kini

The only special revelation is the Bible which God has breathed as the main source for human learning, so that it can organize his life responsibly in service and life every day. Today some people think that the Bible is outdated and of no longer useful to mankind because this is the age of science, technology, and art. However, some people still believe that the Bible is very useful for mankind, therefore the Bible must be studied carefully so that the contents of the Bible are understood as a whole. This paper aims to encourage and inspire new enthusiasm for believers to be active in studying God's word that has been breathed by God because reading God's words can show that God is speaking to his readers. This paper uses a qualitative research method with a deep exegetical study approach. Therefore, this article provides a viewpoint for believers to be loyal in reading the Bible because the Bible is very useful for believers to imply in today's life.

Epistemology

This article discusses how cognitive issues are related to the ancient Israelites’ idea of wisdom. Focusing on the aspects of experience and reasoning, tradition, skepticism, and revelation, it traces general assumptions found throughout all sapiential texts as well as historical developments and controversies among contemporaries. More concretely, it argues that for much of biblical history sapiential epistemology is characterized by a high esteem of experience and reasoning and the belief that all human beings share the same cognitive abilities (and limitations, respectively). In later times, however, these two characteristics lose their importance and are given up, respectively—not through the idea of revelation in general, which was implicitly present from the very beginning, but through the idea of special revelation only to an elect group.

Encountering the Religious Radicalism Movement Through Reconstructing the Multicultural Theology and Its Implication For Christian Leaders in Indonesia

This research aims to create a harmonious relationship among different religions in Indonesia. This aim is reached through reconstructing a multicultural theology based on biblical understanding. The multicultural theology is a biblical principle that be constructed in balancing between Old Testament and New Testament, between general revelation and special revelation. By exposing the general revelation based on theocentric dimension, we found general principles about how to make a good relationship among people in their differences, according to God’s perspective. At the same time, multicultural theology also exposes particular revelation principles centered upon the Christocentric dimension. This research is a qualitative study with a library approach. Data is analyzed by interpretation, critical thinking, and truth and healthy consideration based on the primary source. We found a Christian value to be a foundation to make the relationship in harmony with other people. For this purpose we are proposing a theological framework designed from Biblical principles, covering the following: (1) Cultural Mandate, (2) Human Nature, (3) Theological principles: God’s Sovereignty, God’s Providence and God’s Justice, (4) Incarnation, (5) Universal Soteriology (6) Present Theocracy, (7) Church Nature and (8) Eschatological Multiculture. Christian leaders are central people that must create a relationship with other people in harmony. Through this way, the Christian leaders can engage the religious radicalism by doing good things and togetherness in social work.

An Evaluation of Karl Barth’s Encounter Revelation and the View of God

This paper aimed at evaluating Karl Barth’s theology of encounter revelation and the view of God in relation to the Christian theology of the knowledge of God. It employed literary approach of research that involves bibliographic data in four sections. The first section discussed a brief history of Karl Barth. The second section is an overview of the doctrine of revelation, both general and special revelation. Section three discussed Karl Birth’s view of God in the context of encounter revelation. The fourth section evaluated Karl Barth’s view of encounter revelation in relation to the knowledge of God. This study concluded that the encounter revelation is not the only way of knowing God. Though God reveals Himself fully through the person of Jesus Christ, He also reveals Himself in through general (Universal) and special (particular) revelation.

Josephus

Josephus (37–100 CE) was a Jewish Roman scholar, historian, general, and advisor to Vespasian and Titus. For a brief period he led Jewish troops in a rebellion against the Roman occupation but was eventually reconciled to Roman rule and his own role as an intermediary. According to his autobiography, divine guidance figured prominently in his life, especially when he fully expected to be executed after being captured by Vespasian in the Jewish War. Although dreams and special revelation clearly play a role, Josephus, like Philo (for whom he had a high regard), places Moses and the scriptures at the center of divine guidance. But Judaism was not monolithic, and Josephus describes some of the features distinguishing Pharisees, Sadducees, and Essenes. In common with most Jews of his day, Josephus displays a remarkable degree of freedom in approaching biblical interpretation.

A Theological Review of Approaching Models in the Dialog of Faith and Science

<p>Scholars have been proposing numerous models in “reconciling” faith and science. All proposed models, generally, could be categorized into four approaches: conflict, independence, dialogue, and integration. Since models in approaching the dialog of faith and science, basically, express presuppositions of how someone view reality. In this essay, therefore, these models are reviewed in the light of how Christians should comprehend the reality through the Scripture: God reveals Himself in two ways, general and special. General revelation is the world as His creation, and special revelation is the His words that have been written in the Bible. Special revelation, fundamentally, is a metaphysical framework for Christians to understand God’s creation. As the result, approaching model which cohere to biblical concept of one truth is integration model, which is, as some scholars call, the reconstruction or paradigmatic approach.</p>

General Revelation, Science and integration: Objections and opportunities

Recent controversies over integrating modern science and Scripture have led to faculty firings and wholesale changes in academic programs. An underlying question is the relationship between science and general revelation. This article argues that modern science and general revelation are not the same but the relationship between them depends upon the approach one takes to the object of general revelation. The article concludes with guidelines for integrating general and special revelation faithfully.

Orbit and Axis: Carl F. H. Henry on Revelation and Education

Carl F. H. Henry serves as a fruitful resource for the integration of faith and learning. The central issue in Christian scholarship is to properly associate the revelation of God with the knowledge of God’s world across all academic disciplines. The particular effort of this article is to demonstrate the clarity Henry provides as it relates to general revelation, special revelation, and knowledge explored in a comprehensive university setting. Building on Henry’s clarity, an orientation of knowledge to Jesus Christ, a proposal for the resulting vision for Christian scholarship, and habits of Christian educational institutions follows.

Implikasi Penggunaan �El� dan �YHWH� dalam Kekristenan Masa Kini

The use of the terms El and YHWH relating to the name of God or God in the Bible produces a lot of discussion, in which groups eventually tend to maintain YHWH or Yahweh as names that cannot be replaced. The group is usually called Yahweism, or the admirers of the name Yahweh. This article provides a literature review with a qualitative approach to the texts of the Scriptures concerning the use of the term name. With descriptive and analytical methods, the conclusion is that the use of El and YHWH in the Old Testament refers to the same person so that it is not necessary to debate its use. El refers to revelation in general, while YHWH shows special revelation in the context of the election and salvation of a nation or people. AbstrakPenggunaan istilah El dan YHWH berkaitan dengan nama Allah atau Tuhan dalam Alkitab menghasilkan banyak diskusi, di mana pada akhirnya muncul kelompok yang cenderung mempertahankan YHWH atau Yahweh sebagai nama diri yang tidak boleh diganti. Kelompok tersebut biasa disebut Yahweisme, atau para pengagum nama Yahweh. Artikel ini memberikan kajian literature dengan pendekatan kualitatif pada teks-teks Kitab Suci berkenaan dengan penggunaan istilah nama tersebut. Dengan metode deskriptif dan analisis, maka diperoleh kesimpulan bahwa penggunaan El dan YHWH dalam Perjanjian Lama merujuk pada satu pribadi yang sama sehingga tidak perlu diperdebatkan penggunaannya. El menunjuk pada pewahyuan secara umum, sementara YHWH menunjukkan pewahyuan khusus dalam konteks pemilihan dan keselamatan sebuah bangsa atau umat.

THE PERENNITY OF ANSELM’S PROSLOGION

The first goal of Anselm in the Proslogion is to encourage believers by demonstrating the absolute necessity of the existence of the God of the Bible. Anselm most likely succeeds as the definition of God that he adopts is faithful to the content of special revelation. Whether the argument can function as an argument for the existence of God can be doubted. In this article we look at the various aspects of the question.