Exam 2

Question 1

What is the Buddha Tree?

Answer 1

It was the tree that Buddha was under when he reached enlightenment and fully understood how the world works and is interconnected.

Question 2

What is the Reign of God?

Answer 2

It is the belief in Christianity that one day the new order will come and bring in the reign of God into the world.

Question 3

What is Enlightenment?

Answer 3

It is the goal of Buddhism to reach enlightenment or in other words gain a full understand of how the world really works by overcoming ignorance and selfish tendencies.

Question 4

What are the Four Noble Truths?

Answer 4

It contains Buddha’s beliefs on how to overcome suffering. With the first of the truths stating that there is suffering in the world and second that the suffering is caused by people wanting things for themselves. So, his solutions are to stop focusing so much on oneself and follow his eightfold path to reach enlightenment.

Question 5

What is Tanha?

Answer 5

It is a part of Buddha’s second noble truth and is one’s sense of greed or selfishness.

Question 6

What is Samsara?

Answer 6

It is what Buddha describes as someone returning to the real world after being enlightened.

Question 7

What is a Non-Theist?

Answer 7

Non-theist is someone who believes in spirituality but does not believe in a definitive God.

Question 8

What is a Atheist?

Answer 8

An atheist is someone who does not believe in any sort of spiritual power since they believe in the world that can be scientifically measured.

Question 9

What is Sunyata?

Answer 9

It is a term that encompasses the Buddhist belief that everything in interconnected as anatta or no things rather than individuals.

Question 10

What is Buddhist non-duality?

Answer 10

It describes the relationship between what is material and spiritual. Particularly for Buddhism it describes the relationship between emptiness and form. Where they are not each other but both of the concepts are not separate from each other either.

Question 11

What is Christian non-duality?

Answer 11

It illustrates the relationship between creator and creation. Or more specifically, that the two are interrelated to each other in the sense that one cannot exist without the other.

Question 12

What is Dependent Origination?

Answer 12

It is the Buddhist understanding about how everything in the world was created by other things in the world meaning that all things have dependence on others.

Question 13

What is Asymmetrical reciprocity?

Answer 13

It is a concept that is used to describe how things need and rely on each other. It is not an equal balance as one needs the other more. A concept that appears in Christianity between God or the creator relying on the creation to maintain that title and compared to the creation needs the creator to exist.

Question 14

What is hypostatic union?

Answer 14

The term describes how Jesus Christ was a human while also encompassing some spiritual traits. It explores how two things that traditionally would seem impossible to both be true can be.

Question 15

What does the Cross of Jesus represent?

Answer 15

It is a symbol that serves as reminder of how Jesus has suffered for the people and understands what it is like to feel pain.

Question 16

What is Resurrection of the Body?

Answer 16

It is the Christian belief that after someone dies themselves or their whole body including their mind and sense of self will live on in an afterlife.

Question 17

What is Creation?

Answer 17

It is the Christian description for God creating the world out of nothing but also includes the idea that it is not a one time event that happened in the past but rather an ongoing and continuous action as the world changes and evolves.

Question 18

What is Eschatology?

Answer 18

It is a specific branch of theology that is focused on endings such as that of time and on what happens at the end of human life, along with what occurs after someone passes.

Question 19

What is Evolution?

Answer 19

It is the scientific explanation for how humans and the world have grown and evolved over time. A concept that Christians can understand since God has been able to create over time which accounts for the changes that has happened in the world. Which is how Christians can see him as the source behind evolution.

Question 20

What does creativity rather than creator mean?

Answer 20

The phrase is used to describe the Buddhist belief that while the world does not have one sole creator, it is constantly changing or creating. A concept that is supported by the idea that nothing in the world is permanent or impermanence. The phase also connects to the Buddhist idea of dependent origination or that everything in the world comes from something. Which points to the Buddhist idea that everything comes from something and since there are so many beings in the world that is why everything is changes and how nothing stays the same.

Question 21

What does Anatta mean?

Answer 21

Annatta is the Buddhist concept that people are no selves because we are all affected by each other and our actions meaning that people should not act for their own self benefits especially at the expense of others.

Question 22

What does Atman mean?

Answer 22

Meanwhile Atman is the Buddhist concept of someone’s self in the sense of their mind and spirit.

Question 23

What is Original sin?

Answer 23

Original sin is the Christian concept to explain why there is bad in the world and why people do harmful things. Although sin originates due to God letting people have free will to do what they want without interference which is why people do harmful things. It is through those acts that are harmful that create sin in the world and when someone is born into the world they encounter and become affected by the original sin themselves.

Question 24

What is ignorance?

Answer 24

It is a term that is used in Buddhism to describe how people are unaware of their role in the world. In the sense that do not know that they are anatta’s.

Question 25

What is the Story of Adam and Eve?

Answer 25

The story of Adam and Eve should be seen for what it is, an etiological myth meaning that it never actually happened. However, it is a story that was created to help Christians understand why the world has suffering and sin in it.

Question 26

What is Social karma?

Answer 26

Social karma is the Buddhist explanation of why bad things can happened to people even when they haven’t done anything wrong. Since the consequential action can affect others that are around the person who did it.

Question 27

What does Theosis mean?

Answer 27

It describes people who are getting closer with higher power and gaining a closer relationship with a divine power

Question 28

What is the Mystery of the Blessed Trinity?

Answer 28

The mystery of the blessed trinity describes the relationship between how God takes on the role of himself as the creator. Along with the roles of his son Jesus who is seen as the mediator between him and humans. Additionally, the holy spirit is the force of God that is felt in the world.

Question 29

What does anicca mean?

Answer 29

It is a Buddhist term to articulate how nothing in the world is permanent.