Existence of God Quotes

Question 1

God’s nature (5)

Answer 1

• Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.
• God and Christ Jesus, who will judge the living and the dead
• Do not worship any other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God
• you have forsaken me [God] and served foreign gods in your own land, so now you will serve foreigners in a land not your own
• we had to celebrate and be glad, because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found (Parable of the Lost Son)

Question 2

God’s relationship with the world (3)

Answer 2

• He covers the sky with clouds; He supplies the Earth with rain and makes grass grow on the hills
• There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens
• since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities- his eternal power and divine nature- have been clearly seen

Question 3

God’s relationship with humanity

Answer 3

• Let us make man in our image, in our likeness
• I know the plans I have for you
• I will add fifteen years to your life [to a sick and dying king]
• It is no longer I [Paul] who live, but Christ who lives in me

Question 4

God as good (3)

Answer 4

• God saw all that he had made, and it was very good
• He rules the world in righteousness and judges the peoples with equity
• take possession of the land the Lord is giving you for your own [to Joshua, ordering him to destroy another nation]

Question 5

Why there is evil and suffering (2)

Answer 5

• He will not let you be tested beyond what you can bear
• My God, my God, why have you forsaken me [Jesus]?

Question 6

The Moral Argument

Answer 6

• The fool says in his heart, ‘There is no God.’ They are corrupt, their deeds are vile

Question 7

The Soul-Making Argument and Judgement

Answer 7

• Our conscience testifies that we have conducted ourselves (…) with integrity and godly sincerity.

Question 8

Experiencing God through the Bible

Answer 8

• For the word of God is alive and active (…) it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart
• All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful (…), so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work

Question 9

God revealed through Jesus Christ

Answer 9

• The Word [Jesus] became flesh and made his dwelling among us.
• God demonstrates his own love for us in this: while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Question 10

Miracles

Answer 10

• Jesus reached out and touched the man (…) immediately he was cured of his leprosy.
• The dead man sat up and began to talk, and Jesus gave him back to his mother.
• He [Jesus] got up, rebuked the wind and said to the waves, ‘Quiet! Be still!’ Then the wind died down and it was completely calm.

Question 11

Conversions

Answer 11

• Saul was still breathing out murderous threats against the Lord’s disciples.
• suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him. He fell to the ground and heard a voice say to him, ‘Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?’
• At once he began to preach in the synagogues that Jesus is the Son of God.

Question 12

Mystical experiences

Answer 12

• Ephesians 5:18 Paul tells believers to be “filled with the Holy Spirit”
• he [Balaam] saw the Angel of the Lord standing in the way with his drawn sword in his hand; and he bowed his head
• Let your reasonableness be known to everyone.

Question 13

Worship and the Sacraments

Answer 13

• Jesus therefore said to them, ‘Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in yourselves.’
• This is my body given for you; do this in remembrance of me.