3in1 Flashcards
- What are the elements that make up the Covenant that God established with man?
Elements:
Parties: God and Man
Promise: I will be your God and you will be my people
Condition: Circumcision
- What is the starting point of Theology?
Faith
- Under what light do we study Theology?
Reason
- What is the paradigm of the Old Covenant?
Paradigm: Old (filiation), New (Spousal)
- Give a quotation from the Old Testament that tells us we can know God from creatures.
Wisdom 13: 5 For from the greatness and beauty of created things comes a corresponding perception of their Creator.
- Give a quotation from the New Testament that says we can know God from creatures.
Rom 1:20-21 Eversince the creation of the world, his invisible nature, namely, his eternal power and deity, has been clearly perceived in the things that have been made.
- Give the three most common names used by the Bible to designate God.
Ans: El, Elohim (The Most High), Yahweh (I am who am)
- What does El Shaddai mean?
El is one of the names of God. “Sadday” is found in (Ex 6:3). Etymology is unknown although often translated as omnipotent. Hence, El Shaddai means “God Omnipotent”.
- What does Adonai mean?
Adonai means “Lord”.
- In what biblical passage can we find the name God gave of himself?
In the theophany of the burning bush (Ex 3:1-15) Yahweh reveals his mysterious name: I am who am. (Ex 3:14).
- In Hebrew the name that God gave of himself can be understood in a causative sense. What does this tell us of God?
In Hebrew the verb “to be” can be understood in the causative form (in hiphil). This will mean “to give being”. And so Yahweh would mean “he who gives being”, that is, the Creator.
- Give a quotation from the Bible that says there is only one God.
Deut 6:4
“Hear, O Israel: Yahweh is our God, Yahweh alone. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.”
1 Cor 8:4
“There is no God but one.”
- God created the world by speaking. Give a passage to show this.
Psalm 33:6:
“By the word of the Lord the heavens were made, and all their host by the breath of his mouth.”
Gen 1:1-3
“In the beginning God created heaven and earth.Now the earth was a formless void, there was darkness over the deep, with a divine wind sweeping over the waters.God said, ‘Let there be light,’ and there was light.”
- Give a passage that says God is holy.
Is 6:3
“…and they were shouting these words to each other: Holy, holy, holy is Yahweh Sabaoth. His glory fills the whole earth.”
- Give a biblical passage from the New Testament that speaks of the omnipotence of God.
Luke 1:37
“For with God nothing will be impossible.”
- Give a passage from the Old Testament that speaks of God having maternal characteristics.
Is 49:15
“Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb? Even these may forget, yet I will not forget you.”
- Give a passage from the Psalms that speaks of God as Father.
Ps 89:26 He shall cry to me: Thou art my Father , my God, and the Rock of my salvation.
- Give proof from the New Testament that God is a merciful Father.
Lk 6:36 Be merciful, even as your Father is merciful.
- Passage from the New Testament where Jesus distinguished his filiation to the Father from our filiation.
Jn 20:17: “…I am ascending to my Father and your Father, and to my God and your God”
- Passage from the New Testament where Jesus affirmed his identity with the Father.
Jn 10:30,38: “I and the Father are one” and “ the Father is in me and I am in the Father”
- What are the hints in the Old Testament for the existence of the Second Person of the Trinity?
Psalm 2:7 You are my Son, I have begotten you this day
- Passage in the New Testament where Jesus claimed to have the power to forgive sins.
Mark 2:10-11 “But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins” then he said to the paralytic “Rise up and take up your pallet…”
- Passage where Jesus claimed to be superior to the Temple.
Matthew 12:6: “I tell you, something greater than the temple is here.”
- Passage where Jesus demanded his disciples to give their lives for his sake.
Matthew 10:39
Whoever finds their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life for my sake will find it.
- Passage where the Father gave testimony that Jesus is his Son.
Baptism of Jesus in the River Jordan.
Matthew 3:17
and lo, a voice from heaven, saying, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”
- Give a passage from St. Paul where he affirmed the divinity of Jesus.
St. Paul’s beginning letter to the Corinthians
1 Cor 1:9
God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord
- Passage where Jesus attributed pre-existence to himself.
Jesus warns the unbelieving Jews.
John 8:58
Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am.”
- Passage where Jesus claimed to be the Life and the way to the Father.
Jesus reveals the Father
John 14:6
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father, but by me.
- Passage from Genesis that revealed the Spirit of God.
Six days of Creation and the Sabbath
Gen 1:2
The earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the Spirit of God was moving over the face of the waters.
- Passage from Isaiah that prophesied the Messiah having the fullness of the Spirit of Yahweh.
Isaiah in this passage talks about a servant, who will Be a Light to the nation.
Is. 42
Behold my servant, whom I uphold,
my chosen, in whom my soul delights;
I have put my Spirit upon him,
he will bring forth justice to the nations.
- Passage where Jesus called the Holy Spirit the Spirit of Truth.
Jesus Christ talks about the actions of the Holy Spirit
John 16:13
When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth; for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.
- Passage where the Christians were called temples of the Holy Spirit.
St Paul speaks about the offences to Christ and to the Holy Spirit.
1 Cor 6:19
Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, which you have from God?
- Passage from the Gospels that speak of the three Persons of the Blessed Trinity.
Baptism
Matthew 3:16-17.
As soon as Jesus was baptized, he went up out of the water. At that moment heaven was opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting on him. And a voice from heaven said, “This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased.”
Ascension
Matthew 28:19
Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit
- What was Dynamic Monarchianism?
Possible answers:
- This heresy tried to save the divine Unity by sacrificing the Trinity of Persons. This means Jesus was not God, rather He was just a man endowed with power from God at birth.
- Dynamic Monarchianism teaches that God is the Father, that Jesus is only a man, denied the personal subsistence of the Logos, and taught that the Holy Spirit was a force or presence of God the Father.
- Who started Dynamic Monarchianism?
Theodotus of Byzantium
- What was Modal Monarchianism?
Possible answers:
- This is also a similar heresy with dynamic monarchianism, meaning, there is only the divine unity and no trinity of persons, except that here Jesus is the mode of existence of the Father, so it was the Father who died on the Cross.
- Modal monarchianism teaches that the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are just modes of the single person who is God. In other words, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are not simultaneous and separate persons but consecutive modes of one person.
- Who first taught Modal Monarchianism?
Noëtus of Smyrna (Bishop)
- Who extended Modal Monarchianism to the Holy Spirit?
Sabellius
- What was Gnosticism?
It was a hodgepodge of religions and sciences like zoroastrianism and astrology, that tried to explain Christianity. It stated that God gave being to all things by emanation through aeons which are like demiurges. These aeons mixe the principles of good and evil, thus creating everything.
- What was Arianism?
It was the heresy that denied the divine nature and attributes of the second person of the Blessed Trinity. ; It denied that the Son had a divine nature and divine attributes. “There was a time when the Logos did not exist.” Also, that God cannot get into direct contact with matter; That the Logos is subject to change and development. He is united to God only by will. The Logos can be called “God” only metaphorically.