Chapter 2.5 Flashcards

1
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What is belief in more than one “god”?

A

polytheism

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2
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What is absolute rule?

A

sovereignty

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3
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What means that God is one in His essential being, but He exists in three Persons?

A

Trinity

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4
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Is each Person of the Godhead fully God?

A

yes

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5
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Where in the Bible is the Trinity quietly declared?

A

Old Testament

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6
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Name three broad areas in the Old Testament where the Trinity is quietly declared.

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(1) The plural name for God
(2) In the plural forms of the personal pronouns for Gpd
(3) In the Theophanies
(4) In the threefold of the Aaronic blessing
(5) In the “thrice hold” of Isaiah 6:3

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7
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What is the plural name for God in the Old Testament?

A

Elohim

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8
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What is the visible appearances of God which is usually in human form?

A

Theophanies

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9
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Where in the Bible is the Trinity openly declared?

A

New Testament

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10
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Name 3 areas in the New Testament where the Trinity is declared.

A

(1) At Christ’s baptism
(2) In the baptismal formula
(3) In the apostolic benediction
(4) In the teachings of Jesus
(5) In the fact that all three are called “God”

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11
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How was the Trinity evident at Christ’s baptism?

A

The Father spoke, the Son was baptized, and the Holy Spirit descended like a dove

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12
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Is God material?

A

no; He is a Spirit

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13
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What ascribes to God’s human features to help us as simple human beings?

A

anthropomorphisms

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14
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Is God a Spirit and a Person?

A

yes

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15
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What are visible appearances of God, usually is his human form?

A

theophanies

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16
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What word is the best way to describe the divine nature of God and that God is not material?

A

Spirit

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17
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What name of God in the Old Testament means “the Self-Existent One” and is the covenant name of God?

A

Jehovah

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18
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What name of God in the Old Testament means “My Lord; My Master?

A

Adonai

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19
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What name of God in the Old Testament means “the Strong One”; “the One to be Feared”?

A

Elohim

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20
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What name of God in the Old Testament means “the All-Sufficient One”?

A

El Shaddai

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21
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What name of God in the Old Testament means “the Most High God”?

A

El Elyon

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22
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What name of God is the New Testament version of “Elohim”?

A

Theos

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23
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What name of God is the New Testament version of “Adonai”?

A

Kurios

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24
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What name of God is the New Testament has no Old Testament equivalent but means “Father”?

A

Pater

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25
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What name of God means “God with us”?

A

Immanuel

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26
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What is the act of God whereby He brought all things into existence?

A

Creation

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27
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What type of creation is creation without the use of preexisting materials?

A

immediate creation

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28
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Was the Trinity present at Creation?

A

yes

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29
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How can we tell that the Trinity was present at Creation?

A

Elohim is used

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30
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What is the Latin phrase that is used to signify this immediate creation “out of nothing”?

A

ex nihilo

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31
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What is the act of God in which He does not originate things, but simply shapes and transforms material that is already in existence?

A

mediate creation

32
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As Christians, what do we belive about the origin of the universe?

A

that there is a God and that God created as He says in His word

33
Q

What do evolutionists believe about God and the universe?

A

that there is no God, or that if there is a God, He did not create the heavens and the earth as He revealed in the first two chapters of Genesis

34
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Is Creation accepted by faith?

A

yes

35
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Is evolution accepted by faith?

A

yes

36
Q

Which of the two origins of the universe (Creation or evolution) is based on a reasonable faith?

A

Creation

37
Q

Who is the only one who has observed the creation?

A

God

38
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Has anyone ever seen evolution in progress?

A

no

39
Q

In either origin of the universe repeatable?

A

no

40
Q

What does design demand?

A

a Designer

41
Q

If we cannot accept Moses’ account of Creation what will we not be able to accept?

A

the words of Christ

42
Q

If we cannot trust the Biblical accounts of Creation, what will we not be able to accept?

A

the Biblical accounts of salvation by faith, eternal life, heaven, and hell

43
Q

What did God create on the first day of Creation?

A

Light and darkness

44
Q

To man’s knowledge, what is the only absence of light?

A

darkness

45
Q

Why did God probably create darkness?

A

for man’s benefit

46
Q

What did God create on the second day of Creation?

A

the atmosphere was divided from teh waters beneath

47
Q

What comes from a verb meaning, “to beat out, to spread out”?

A

firmament

48
Q

What did God create on the third day of Creation?

A

He caused dry land to appear from the water and created plant life

49
Q

What did God call the dry land that appeared from the water?

A

earth

50
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What did God create on the fourth day of Creation?

A

the sun, moon, and stars

51
Q

When did God make it possible for man to calculate time?

A

on the fourth day of creation

52
Q

What should we be reminded of every time the sun rises or the seasons change?

A

that God keeps His promises

53
Q

What did God create on the fifth day of Creation?

A

birds and marine life

54
Q

What animal that was created can be translated as “great sea monster” or the modern day dinosaur?

A

whale

55
Q

What would the dragons in Scripture probably be called today?

A

dinosaurs

56
Q

What are the two animals in the book of Job that were probably dinosaurs?

A

the behemoth and the levithan

57
Q

Which of the two animals in the book of Job may have been a reptile similar to a Brontosaurus?

A

behemoth

58
Q

Which of the two animals in the book of Job was a fire-breathing aqautic animal?

A

leviathan

59
Q

What is the most popular theory for why dinosaurs went extinct?

A

some catastrophe

60
Q

What is the phrase that the Bible uses to indicate that it is impossible for one kind of plant to produce a different kind of plant or animal?

A

“after their kind”

61
Q

Who was the Swedish naturalist who devised a simple, practical, method of classification for use by scientists?

A

Carolus Linnaeus

62
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What mean a group of similar organisms that are all descended from a single group of similar organisms that are all descended from a single group of originally created animals?

A

the Biblical kind

63
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What was allegedly a horse whose descendants had once less toe than their ancestor?

A

Euhippus

64
Q

What are sudden changes in the DNA code of the genes which one passed on to an organism’s offspring?

A

mutations

65
Q

What did God create on the sixth day?

A

man

66
Q

In whose image did God create man?

A

His own image

67
Q

What is the absolute right that God has to run the universe as He wants because He created it for His own purposes and glory?

A

sovereignty

68
Q

What is sovereignty a matter of?

A

ownership

69
Q

Name five areas that God’s sovereignty extends over.

A
  • God controls the universe
  • God controls the plant and animal creation
  • God controls all nations
  • God controls the length of a man’s life
  • God controls all things for His glory
70
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What can God in His sovereignty impose upon Himself?

A

limitations

71
Q

What are the three limitations that God has placed upon Himself?

A

the existence of sin, the free will of man, and the privilege of prayer

72
Q

If God did not determine sin’s existence, what did He do instead?

A

he allowed it in the universe

73
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What are the qualities of persohood?

A

will, emotion, intellect

74
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What did God make on the sixth day of Creation?

A

land animals and man

75
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