Exam 1 Christology

Question 1

Define Epistemology

Answer 1

Study of how we acquire knowledge

Question 2

How is God revealed to us?

Answer 2

God is self revealed

Question 3

What defines what we can say about God as Christians?

Answer 3

Scripture

Question 4

In our approach to understanding God what is the best starting point?

Answer 4

With revelation “from above”

Question 5

Because humanity is “fallen” where must revelation start?

Answer 5

Scripture, Revelation from “above”, and with God initiative

Question 6

When we consider how God revealed Himself in Scripture what is proper Christian response?

Answer 6

God’s process of revelation is good

Question 7

What must a Christian say about the OT?

Answer 7

The OT lays out the true revelation of God

Question 8

What does the NT revelation build on?

Answer 8

The Old Testamant

Question 9

According to Hendrikus Berkoff a better hermetical approach to God’s revelation in Scripture is which of the following?

Answer 9

Letting the OT speak to the NT and let that inform later philosophy

Question 10

What is biblically appropriate in speaking of God?

Answer 10

We must say what scripture says

Question 11

Belief in one God

Answer 11

Monotheism

Question 12

Define Atheist

Answer 12

One who denies the existence of God

Question 13

Whats and Agnostic

Answer 13

A person who asserts that the existence of God is unknown, God’s existence in unknowable, and/or a pessimist

Question 14

What is a pantheist

Answer 14

One who equates God with nature or the forces of the universe

Question 15

What makes up the belief of Ditheism

Answer 15

Belief in two gods

Question 16

What is a polytheist

Answer 16

One who believes in more than on God

Question 17

What is tritheism

Answer 17

3 gods, view from some trinitarians

Question 18

What constitutes Trinitarianism

Answer 18

There are 3 distinct person in the Godhead, but yet one God

Question 19

What are the two extreme tendencies in Trinitarian thought?

Answer 19

To emphasize the unity of God without having a carefully developed understanding of what is meant by 3 distinct persons

To emphasize the 3ness of the trinity to the point that they believe in three self-conscious beings, and their view essentially tritheistic

Question 20

What makes binitarianism unique?

Answer 20

It does not classify the Holy Ghost as separate person but asserts belief in two persons in the Godhead

Question 21

Many monotheists have pointed out that both Trinitarianism and Binitarianism ultimately do what?

Answer 21

They weaken the strict monotheism taught by the Bible

Question 22

Who represents strict monotheism and yet rejects the full divinity of Christ?

Answer 22

Arians (led by Arius)

Paul of Samosata

Dynamic Monarchians

Question 23

Which of the following represents strict monotheism?

Answer 23

There is only one God, but yet rejects the full deity of Jesus Christ