Chapter 1 - Searching For God/ Nature And Attributes Of God Flashcards
Why is the desire of God written on the human heart?
Man is created by God and for God
What did God give us an unquenchable hunger for?
Happiness
Why did God give us a restless heart?
To help us find him
Religions that believe there is only one God
Monotheistic
Three examples of monotheistic religions
Christianity
Judaism
Islam
Sincerely reciting the Muslim profession of faith
Shahadah
Performing ritual prayers in the proper way (facing Mecca) five times a day
Salat
Paying of alms or charity tax to benefit the poor and needy Muslims
Zakat
Fasting during the months of Ramadan
Sawm
Pilgrimage to Mecca at least once in a lifetime
Hajj
What three major Christian doctrines does Islam deny?
The Trinity
The Incarnation
The Resurrection
What are the six crucial and distinctive concepts that stand out in Judaism?
Monotheism Redemption
Creation Sin
Law Faith
What does the Jewish faith believe God is?
A person
A will
Not a mere force or being
Religions that believe in the existence of many gods and goddesses
Polytheistic religions
Polytheistic | Piety | Moderation and temperance
Objective and absolute truth is discoverable, not created
Believe in transcendence, supernaturals, and mysteries
Has a specific style of worship
Old Paganism
Believes that nature is God
Rejects moderation and temperance
Rejects supernaturals and do not have a specific type of worship
New Paganism
An indifference to religion and a belief that religion should be excluded from civil affairs and public education
Secularism
Denies the existence of God
Atheism
The belief that God’s existence cannot be known
Agnosticism
The way God communicates knowledge of himself to humankind
A self-communication realized by his actions and words over time
Most fully by God’s sending of his divine Son, Jesus Christ
Divine Revelation
Who pointed out the five proofs?
St. Thomas Aquinas
List the five proofs of God’s existence
Unmoved mover First cause Everything comes from something Supreme model Grand designer
List the four cosmological arguments
Motion
Causation
Contingency
Degrees
The world is in motion
For the world to move there must have been a FIRST MOVER
Unmoved mover
Explain first cause
Nothing can cause itself
Explain how everything comes from something
“Nothing” cannot create “something”
Explain the supreme model
The state of perfection created by God
God put laws in human nature making it a well-ordered universe
The world contains beauty, symmetry, order, and power
Grand designer
The desire to act
Potency
Give some examples of the relationship between potency and act
Learning a new language
Reading a book in order to learn how to juggle
Lifting weights in a weight room
God must exist in all things
Creation cannot be set over God
He actively communicates and activates being into and in all things
Rejected by Deism and Pantheism
Immanent
God is not part of the universe
Rejects Pantheism
God is other than His creation
Outside of time and space
Transcendent
A being that has always existed and always will exist
Can’t not exist
Necessary beings
Any being that could not have existed
Includes human beings
Contingent being
This means that God is transcendent or outside of time and space
Pure Act of Being
What a thing is
The property or set of properties that make an entity or subastance what is fundamental is, and which it has by necessity and without which it loses its identity
Essence
The act of being
Esse
List the attributes of substance
Durable
Separable
Identical
Persists over time
May come into existence or cease to exist
May be uncreated or indestructible but it has an extended existence over time
Durable
Existence is not dependent on other things
Exists independently
Can be separated from other things that exist
Separable
Member of a certain kind (which endures over time or separates it from other things)
Identical
List the attributes of essence
Immutable
Indivisible
Necessary
Infinite
Cannot be changed
Ex. Humans are rational animals with a soul
Immutability
Essence ceases to be what it is when it is broken up into its constituents (ingredients/elements)
Indivisiblity
Property or properties that make an entity or substance what it fundamentally is
Necessity
What factors make God infinite?
Without limitations
Ex. Time, space, age,intelligence, energy
What factors make God spiritual?
Not a material being
Not subject to change
Is the limitless fullness of being
False teaching
The world and God cannot be co-dependent
Rejects that God is the Creator and the world depends on Him for its total being
Rejects the transcendence and immanence of God
Pantheism
Name a form of moral evil
Sin
Name a form of physical evil
Suffering
The sin of disobedience committed by Adam and Eve that resulted in their loss of holiness and justice
Describes the fallen state of human nature into which all generations of people are born
Original sin
The story of God’s saving action/journey in human history to save mankind
Salvation history
A binding and solemn agreement among between God and human beings, holding each to a particular course of action
The means by which God establishes relationships; indissoluble
Covenant
What did the Flood a divine punishment for?
Prideful ambition
What was God’s promise in his covenant with Noah?
He promises to never again destroy the earth with a flood
What promise did God make Abraham?
Promised to be his God and the God of his descendants for all time
The heritage of faith handed down in the Church from the time of the Apostles, from which the Magisterium draws all that it proposes for belief as being divinely revealed
Deposit of Faith
What is contained in the single deposit of faith?
Sacred Scripture
Sacred Tradition
The speech of God as it is put down in writing under the breath of the Holy Spirit
Records the events of Salvation History and the covenants God made with humanity
Sacred Scripture
The living transmission from one generation to the next of the Church’s gospel message
Sacred Tradition
The official teaching authority of the church
The Lord bestowed the right and the power to teach in his name on Peter and the Apostles and their successors
Magesterium
The central truth of Revelation that Catholics are obliged to believe
Dogma
God uses this name to reveal himself to Moses on Mount Sinai
Means “I Am Who Am”
YHWH
