These videos consist of a series of questions answered by Dr. Okamoto and Dr. Ziegler concerning what is Dogmatics and issues it tries to answer.
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25 - How did people in the Old Testament know God?
Roland Ziegler
Prof. Ziegler explains that the Trinity is in the Old Testament and that the people of the Old Testament had a Trinitarian understanding.
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26 - How should one address the beliefs of Judaism and Islam regarding the God of Abraham?
Roland Ziegler
Prof. Ziegler discusses how Judaism and Islam view Christ while having similar views of God.
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27 - To whom does one pray when one prays through Jesus?
Roland Ziegler
Prof. Ziegler explains when we pray we are praying to the Trinity whether we pray to the Father, Son or Holy Spirit.
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28 - If God is so great, does language about God fall short?
Roland Ziegler
Prof. Ziegler explains that even though we do not have the words to totally explain God we can use what he has revealed to us to understand what he has done for us.
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29 - What is the significance of God being a mystery or hidden?
Roland Ziegler
Prof. Ziegler explains we can only understand the revealed God and that the hidden God is not understandable in this life.
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30 - What does our language about God actually mean?
Roland Ziegler
Prof. Ziegler explains the ways in which we use language to understand God.
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31 - What are the problems when one speaks in different ways about God?
Roland Ziegler
Prof. Ziegler explains that God is love and that is used in an ontological way.
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32 - Is there a difference between analogy and metaphor?
Roland Ziegler
Prof. Ziegler explains the difference between metaphors and analogies when speaking about God.
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33 - What kind of language is used when God is called Father?
Roland Ziegler
Prof. Ziegler explains calling God "Father" is rooted in both the Old and New Testaments and is important in how God reveals himself to us.
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34 - To what kinds of words does the term analogical language apply?
Roland Ziegler
Prof. Ziegler warns about creating new metaphors to explain God so that we do not lose the real meaning of the Biblical metaphor.
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35 - What are the attributes of God?
Roland Ziegler
Prof. Ziegler explains what is meant by the attributes of God.
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36 - What does it mean that God is simple?
Roland Ziegler
Prof. Ziegler explains what the idea that God is "simple" meant and where the idea originated.
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37 - What do we mean when we say that God is omnipresent?
Roland Ziegler
Prof. Ziegler explains God's omnipresence using the atemporial view.
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38 - Is there a point to prayer if God is omnicient?
Roland Ziegler
Prof. Ziegler explains why we should pray even though God is omniscient.
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39 - How should some Biblical descriptions of God be understood since God is omnicient?
Roland Ziegler
Prof. Ziegler explains God's omniscience in light of fulfilling his plan for man's salvation.
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40 - Are the prayers of people ever able to actually change the mind of God?
Roland Ziegler
Prof. Ziegler explains that God is immutable but is pleased by prayer.
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41 - How does one reconcile the love of God and the justice of God?
Roland Ziegler
Prof. Ziegler explains the love of God and the Justice of God.
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42 - How can one talk about the true God to non-Christians?
Roland Ziegler
Prof. Ziegler uses philosophical approaches to God to explain how to talk about God to non-Christians.
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43 - Do we overstep the bounds of theology when we assert that God created the universe?
Joel Okamoto
Dr. Okamoto explains why the struggle between science and religion came into being and that we should not forget that God is the creator of all things.
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44 - Does God really not need us?
Joel Okamoto
Dr. Okamoto explains that God does not need us but that because of his mercy he saves and redeems us.
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45 - Why did God create us?
Joel Okamoto
Dr. Okamoto explains that we do not know why God created anything but he is a God of love and creation shows love.
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46 - What can Christians say about how God created the world?
Joel Okamoto
Dr. Okamoto gives ideas for explaining how God created the world.
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47 - What are the important differences between Creation and Evolution?
Joel Okamoto
Dr. Okamoto explains the differences between evolution and creation and how sin, death and the devil are lost if God did not create the world.
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48 - Where do angels fit into the creation?
Joel Okamoto
Dr. Okamoto explains what angels are but we are not told when they were created.
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49 - What sets humanity apart from other creatures?
Joel Okamoto
Dr. Okamoto explains the special position God gave to man at creation.
