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Midterm - Theology > Chapter 1 - Searching For God/ Nature And Attributes Of God > Flashcards

Chapter 1 - Searching For God/ Nature And Attributes Of God Flashcards

1
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Why is the desire of God written on the human heart?

A

Man is created by God and for God

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2
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What did God give us an unquenchable hunger for?

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Happiness

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3
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Why did God give us a restless heart?

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To help us find him

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4
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Religions that believe there is only one God

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Monotheistic

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5
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Three examples of monotheistic religions

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Christianity
Judaism
Islam

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6
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Sincerely reciting the Muslim profession of faith

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Shahadah

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Performing ritual prayers in the proper way (facing Mecca) five times a day

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Salat

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Paying of alms or charity tax to benefit the poor and needy Muslims

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Zakat

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9
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Fasting during the months of Ramadan

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Sawm

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10
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Pilgrimage to Mecca at least once in a lifetime

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Hajj

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11
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What three major Christian doctrines does Islam deny?

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The Trinity
The Incarnation
The Resurrection

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12
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What are the six crucial and distinctive concepts that stand out in Judaism?

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Monotheism Redemption
Creation Sin
Law Faith

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13
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What does the Jewish faith believe God is?

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A person
A will
Not a mere force or being

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14
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Religions that believe in the existence of many gods and goddesses

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Polytheistic religions

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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

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Old Paganism

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Believes that nature is God
Rejects moderation and temperance
Rejects supernaturals and do not have a specific type of worship

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New Paganism

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An indifference to religion and a belief that religion should be excluded from civil affairs and public education

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Secularism

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18
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Denies the existence of God

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Atheism

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19
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The belief that God’s existence cannot be known

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Agnosticism

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20
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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

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Divine Revelation

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21
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Who pointed out the five proofs?

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St. Thomas Aquinas

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22
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List the five proofs of God’s existence

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Unmoved mover
First cause 
Everything comes from something
Supreme model
Grand designer
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23
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List the four cosmological arguments

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Motion
Causation
Contingency
Degrees

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24
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The world is in motion

For the world to move there must have been a FIRST MOVER

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Unmoved mover

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25
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Explain first cause

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Nothing can cause itself

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26
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Explain how everything comes from something

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“Nothing” cannot create “something”

27
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Explain the supreme model

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The state of perfection created by God

28
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God put laws in human nature making it a well-ordered universe
The world contains beauty, symmetry, order, and power

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Grand designer

29
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The desire to act

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Potency

30
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Give some examples of the relationship between potency and act

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Learning a new language
Reading a book in order to learn how to juggle
Lifting weights in a weight room

31
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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

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Immanent

32
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God is not part of the universe
Rejects Pantheism
God is other than His creation
Outside of time and space

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Transcendent

33
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A being that has always existed and always will exist

Can’t not exist

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Necessary beings

34
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Any being that could not have existed

Includes human beings

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Contingent being

35
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This means that God is transcendent or outside of time and space

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Pure Act of Being

36
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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

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Essence

37
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The act of being

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Esse

38
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List the attributes of substance

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Durable
Separable
Identical

39
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Persists over time
May come into existence or cease to exist
May be uncreated or indestructible but it has an extended existence over time

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Durable

40
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Existence is not dependent on other things
Exists independently
Can be separated from other things that exist

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Separable

41
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Member of a certain kind (which endures over time or separates it from other things)

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Identical

42
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List the attributes of essence

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Immutable
Indivisible
Necessary
Infinite

43
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Cannot be changed

Ex. Humans are rational animals with a soul

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Immutability

44
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Essence ceases to be what it is when it is broken up into its constituents (ingredients/elements)

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Indivisiblity

45
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Property or properties that make an entity or substance what it fundamentally is

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Necessity

46
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What factors make God infinite?

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Without limitations

Ex. Time, space, age,intelligence, energy

47
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What factors make God spiritual?

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Not a material being
Not subject to change
Is the limitless fullness of being

48
Q

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

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Pantheism

49
Q

Name a form of moral evil

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Sin

50
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Name a form of physical evil

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Suffering

51
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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

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Original sin

52
Q

The story of God’s saving action/journey in human history to save mankind

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Salvation history

53
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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

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Covenant

54
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What did the Flood a divine punishment for?

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Prideful ambition

55
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What was God’s promise in his covenant with Noah?

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He promises to never again destroy the earth with a flood

56
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What promise did God make Abraham?

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Promised to be his God and the God of his descendants for all time

57
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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

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Deposit of Faith

58
Q

What is contained in the single deposit of faith?

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Sacred Scripture

Sacred Tradition

59
Q

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

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Sacred Scripture

60
Q

The living transmission from one generation to the next of the Church’s gospel message

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Sacred Tradition

61
Q

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

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Magesterium

62
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The central truth of Revelation that Catholics are obliged to believe

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Dogma

63
Q

God uses this name to reveal himself to Moses on Mount Sinai
Means “I Am Who Am”

A

YHWH

Midterm - Theology (4 decks)

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