Final Exam

Question 1

What does Atheistic Monism say about creation?

Answer 1

Creation has always been

Question 2

What does Eastern Monism say about creation?

Answer 2

Creation and deity are the same thing (pantheism and panentheism)

Question 3

What does Evolution say about creation?

Answer 3

Big Bang Theory (they didn’t solve everything because they do not explain what caused the big bang)

Question 4

What does Cosmic Evolution say about creation?

Answer 4

Creation came from nothing; ex nihilo; includes the idea of big bang theory; does not solve what caused the motion

Question 5

What does Evolutionary Physics say about creation?

Answer 5

Argues that chance encounters of preexistent matter led to the creation/the bang; problem with this because they do not explain where the preexistent matter came from

Question 6

What does Chemical Evolution say about creation?

Answer 6

Argues that the elements that caused the bang formed by accident

Question 7

What does Biogenesis say about creation?

Answer 7

Argues that life spontaneously generated out of preexisting matter

Question 8

What does Biological Evolution say about creation?

Answer 8

Argues that life evolved from one living organism; they are not interested in the metanarrative of all things, just on the things on our planet

Question 9

What is Macroevolution?

Answer 9

States that evolution takes place across species (monkeys become humans; dinosaurs become birds, etc.)

Question 10

What is Microevolution?

Answer 10

States that evolution takes place within a species (diversity within a species such as dogs, wolves, and coyotes)

Question 11

What is the Biblical account of creation?

Answer 11

God created everything; Genesis account says that God created by Himself (ex nihilo) and He is the point of the Bible. He spoke creation into existence and revealed Himself when He created light

Question 12

Describe Moses’ literary technique in the Biblical account of creation.

Answer 12

Moses’ primary purpose of Genesis 1-2 is not to give a scientific explanation of creation, but a theological explanation (he will not answer every question we have); He intentionally uses parallelism in the passage to reflect what God did in creation

Question 13

What do Young Earth Creationists say about creation?

Answer 13

Argues that the world is very new (young; 7000 years old); either they ignore geological data or they interpret it in a different way

Question 14

What do Old Earth Creationists say about creation?

Answer 14

Argues that if the radiocarbon dating says a rock is billions of years old, the it is billions of years old; God created it whenever He did it

Question 15

What do Younger Earth Creationists say about creation?

Answer 15

Not 7000 years old and not billions of years old, but in between; they believe scientific evidence is valuable but it doesn’t determine it

Question 16

What two ways can Creationism explain the scientific data of creation?

Answer 16

Young Earth aged by sin (the world is newer, but once sin entered the world, it aged faster; After the Flood, the world began agin faster); Young Earth created old (the world was created in a mature state with age already)

Question 17

What is Intelligent Design?

Answer 17

Says that if you look at data and the world around us, there had to be someone to create it and that they were intelligent and more complex

Question 18

What is the Doctrine of Providence?

Answer 18

It connects directly to God’s ongoing relationship with creation; it is how He relates and connects with His people

Question 19

What are the ways in which God exercises providence?

Answer 19

Preservation (God sovereignly maintains/cares for what He has created), Concurrence, and Governance (God sovereignly controls what He has created)

Question 20

What are the two models of Providence?

Answer 20

General Sovereignty and Specific Sovereignty

Question 21

What is General Sovereignty?

Answer 21

God has determined a goal that He desires to be accomplished, He has supplied the creation to be able to achieve that goal, and He allows creation to proceed freely toward that goal

Question 22

What is Specific Sovereignty?

Answer 22

Everything that happens, happens according to God’s plan; He has a specific plan and knows exactly what He wants done

Question 23

What are the various explanations of God’s Will?

Answer 23

Revealed Will, Secret Will, Permissive Will, and Perfect Will

Question 24

What is God’s Revealed Will?

Answer 24

What He has said, He wants to happen

Question 25

What is God’s Secret Will?

Answer 25

God has not told us all of the details; He wants things that we don’t necessarily know about (Deuteronomy 29:29)

Question 26

What is God’s Permissive Will?

Answer 26

He allows things to happen

Question 27

What is God’s Perfect Will?

Answer 27

He intercedes directly

Question 28

What is the importance of the Doctrine of Miracles?

Answer 28

Miracles are an unusual display of God’s Providence and how He interacts with the world; they show the works and glory of God; they are used to establish and prove the authority and authenticity of the Revelation; they help people in need

Question 29

What are the different types of prayer?

Answer 29

Relationship Prayer (“I love you”), Asking Prayer (petitions and supplications), and Responding Prayers (to identify with God and worship through prayers of praise, confessions, and thanksgiving)

Question 30

What are the different models of prayer?

Answer 30

Based on the Lord’s Prayer; adoration, confession, thanksgiving, and supplication

Question 31

What are characteristics of Supernatural beings? (Angels)

Answer 31

Intelligent but not omniscient, moral, powerful but not omnipotent, and finite/limited in power beings

Question 32

What is the essence of the doctrine of man?

Answer 32

Dichotomism which states that man is two substances (the body and the soul/spirit

Question 33

What is imago dei?

Answer 33

We are created in God’s image; to be functional (reflect God’s sovereignty), we have to be relational; our primary role is to be relational (have relationships with others and God)

Question 34

What is the purpose of man?

Answer 34

He created man for His glory and to glorify Him even further; also man was created to work and made to be righteous and to seek righteousness

Question 35

What are gender roles (big concepts, two main interpretations)

Answer 35

Egalitarian View and Complementarian View (see chart in notes)

Question 36

How does marriage look like a picture of the Gospel?

Answer 36

It is an illustration of the Gospel because Adam had Eve (bridegroom and the bride) and Christ (the 2nd Adam) has the Church (bridegroom and the bride)

Question 37

What does the Bible say about singleness?

Answer 37

It is not a sin and for some it is a blessing; singleness is not commanded but is commended; marriage is the norm; gender roles are a spiritual matter, marriage is a spiritual matter, and sex is a spiritual matter

Question 38

What is the Biblical account of the fall and temptations?

Answer 38

Genesis 3; The serpent first questions God’s Word and challenges Eve on what she heard (see chart in notes)

Question 39

What are some of the effects of the fall?

Answer 39

Curses, death, God’s anger, objective guilt, enslavement to sin, punishment

Question 40

What are the two types of evil?

Answer 40

Natural Evil and Moral Evil

Question 41

What is Natural Evil?

Answer 41

These things are a product of the fall; they appeared after the fall occurred; these actions are amoral (neither good nor wicked)

Question 42

What is Moral Evil?

Answer 42

Direct act of the fall; immoral acts

Question 43

What are the three options of theodicy?

Answer 43

Soul Building Theodicy, Free Will Theodicy, and Greater Good Theodicy

Question 44

What is the Soul Building Theodicy?

Answer 44

Argues that God uses/permits evil to build our souls; to mature us, grow us, sanctify us (incomplete in terms of theodicy because Adam was the first person who would have been face to face with this but he didn’t need to be built up because he was already righteous and the fall took him down)

Question 45

What is the Free Will Theodicy?

Answer 45

Argues that God is good and omnipotent but He chooses to limit His power to stop the evil from coming to allow you (Adam or Satan) the exercise of free will; God wanted us to be able to choose between yes and no (What does this theodicy say about when God sends things like an evil spirit on Saul or permission to Satan to perform evil on Job)

Question 46

What is the Greater Good Theodicy?

Answer 46

Argues that God permits evil/decrees evil for a higher purpose of greater good (ex. the greater good theodicy answers the question of Job because he got more at the end of the book and he learned more about God through his trials; answers the question of the evil spirit on Saul so that David could become king; God planned the death of Christ so that men could be saved)

Question 47

What is the purpose of evil?

Answer 47

Punitive purpose (punishment and moral order is preserved), discipline (evil matures us), evidential purpose for suffering (tests our faith), revelational purpose (suffering reveals God in other ways impossible), redemptive purpose (suffering servant), satanic reason (suffering/evil is the result of the evil will of Satan), mystery (some suffering you will not understand in your lifetime), eschatological reason (the end times)