Exam 2

Question 1

“Theology is for doxology & devotion”

Answer 1

The praise of God and the practice of Godliness

Question 2

Attributes of God’s Nature

Answer 2

Unity - No conflict between God’s nature and His attributes
Independence - self-existent from His creation, He exists outside of it
Eternal - God has no beginning or end, infinite
Spiritual - He has no physical body, immaterial

Question 3

God is … Omnipresent, Omnipotent, Omniscient

Answer 3

all present, all powerful, all knowing (but will never do anything that contradicts His nature)

Question 4

Old Testament Names of God

Answer 4

Elohim - God
Adonai - Lord
YHWH - The Lord

Question 5

Variations of Elohim (“God”)

Answer 5

El Elyon - God Most High
El Olam - Everlasting God
El Shaddai - God Almighty

Question 6

Variations of YHWH (“The Lord You…”)

Answer 6

Roi - Shepherd
Jireh - Provider
Rapha - Healer
Nissi - Banner
Shalom - Peace
Tsidkenu - Righteousness
Tsabbaoth - Hosts
Shammah - Who is There

Question 7

New Testament Names of God

Answer 7

Theos - God (like Elohim in OT)
Kurios - Lord (like Adonai in OT)
Pater - Father
Abba - Father (Aramaic word)

Question 8

Characteristics of God

Answer 8

Sovereign, Faithful, Righteous, Wrath, Love, Grace (gives us what we don’t deserve), Mercy (doesn’t give us what we do deserve), Immutable (Unchanging)

Question 9

Apostel’s Creed (AD 190)

Answer 9

Served as a Statement of faith - “I believe in God the Father, Christ the Son, and Holy Spirit”
Gave foundation to other trinitarian creeds - Nicene Creed (AD 325) & Constantinople Creed (AD 381)

Question 10

Tertullian (Early Christian Author)

Answer 10

Developed wording such as - Trinitas (trinity), Una Substantia (one substance), and Tres Personae (3 persons) to help defend the biblical doctrine

Question 11

1st Affirmation of the Trinity Doctrine

Answer 11

God is one - Isaiah 45 “Besides me, there is no God”

Question 12

2nd Affirmation of the Trinity Doctrine

Answer 12

God is 3 Persons - 2 Cor. 13:14

Question 13

3rd Affirmation of the Trinity Doctrine

Answer 13

Each person is fully God - John 1:1, Titus 2:13

Question 14

Roles of the Trinity (Eph. 1 & Matt. 28:19)

Answer 14

God the Father - elects believers
God the Son - secures believers
God the Holy Spirit - seals believers

Question 15

Denial of the Trinity

Answer 15

Arianism - considers Jesus to be beneath or less than the Father, and denies Jesus is God

Modalism - believes God is one person, not 3, denies 3 persons, OT - God is the Father, NT - Son & Holy Spirit

Question 16

Worldview

Answer 16

• a person’s answers to the major questions in life, how we view the world around us
• Core convictions = Heart
• Our foundation which drives our actions

Question 17

Worldview Questions

Answer 17

Origin - Why am I here? Where do I come from?
Morality - What is right & what is wrong? How is this determined?
Meaning - What brings meaning and purpose?
Destiny - What happens when I die?

Question 18

Atheism

Answer 18

Believes there is no God

A + theism = (without) + (belief in God)

Question 19

Agnosticism

Answer 19

• doubts the existence of God
• evidence is insufficient and we can’t know metaphysical truth
• modern secularization developed over push toward atheism

Question 20

God Eliminators (Contributed to Atheistic Worldview)

Answer 20

Darwin - evolution
Nietzsche - morality as a human construct
Marx - socialism
Freud - human psyche
Dewey - education

Question 21

Nihilism

Answer 21

developed by Nietzsche, if God doesn’t exist, life ultimately has no meaning, and we’re all nothing, and headed toward nothing after death

Question 22

Monotheism

Answer 22

belief in one God

Ex: Judaism (doesn’t believe Jesus is God or Salvation), Christianity, Islam (God is Allah) > all have roots in Abraham

Question 23

Deism

Answer 23

• belief in an impersonal God, that despite being creator, he is uninterested & uninvolved with this world, he is distant and silent
• religion without special revilation (God making himself know to his creation)
• human reason can discovery God by itself

Question 24

Bahai

Answer 24

God sends messengers to Earth to tell of how we can get closer and closer to him, all religions stem from the same source so it doesn’t matter what you believe

Question 25

Polytheism

Answer 25

belief in many gods

Question 26

Henotheism

Answer 26

belief in many gods but one reigns supreme

Question 27

Hinduism

Answer 27

1500 BC, belief in millions of gods, karma, and reincarnation

Question 28

Buddhism

Answer 28

500 million followers worldwide, began in India, sought enlightenment from suffering, different version exist, ethical belief system, “no one saves us but we save ourselves”

Question 29

Shintoism

Answer 29

Kami - shinto gods, primary religion of Japan, values loyalty and duty to the family, Kami are procreated by other gods

Question 30

Latter-Day Saints (Mormons)

Answer 30

infinite number of deities & infinite number of universes where they rule, “as man is God once was; as God is man may become”

Question 31

Animism

Answer 31

spirits, forces, gods inhabit the world, not a single religion but allows for many, god/gods are in everything and we must appeal to them for favor in life

Question 32

Pantheism

Answer 32

• God is everything and everything is God, everything is divine, form of monism (that an impersonal element permeats all of reality)
• God vs Creation > denies destinction between God and creation
• God vs Evil > is all is one, you lose the morality of good and evil

Question 33

Folk Religion & Syncretism

Answer 33

the way people live their religion vs textbook defintion, people live contrary to their beliefs or mix beliefs together