god

Question 1

What is monotheism?

Answer 1

The belief that only one God exists + is worthy of worship

Question 2

What is the quote from John 10:30 about monotheism?

Answer 2

“I and God are one” - Jesus

Question 3

What did Israel in the Old Testament not understand?

Answer 3

At first there wasn’t an understanding of one God - other God’s were thought to exist but with no power

Question 4

What does Elohim mean?

Answer 4

Plural form of ‘Gods’ in Hebrew

Question 5

What was God seen as in the Old Testament?

Answer 5

Head of a pantheon of Gods (system)

Question 6

What was each nation thought to have in the Old Testament?

Answer 6

It’s own particular deity + Gods of nations make up a council

Question 7

How did monotheism develop?

Answer 7

In the thinking of Israelite prophets, particularly Isiash

Question 8

What is moral obedience at the heart of?

Answer 8

At the heart of salvation

Question 9

Where is good moral behaviour in the Old Testament?

Answer 9

At the heart of the covenant agreement bet Israel + God

Question 10

What was the covenant agreement between Israel + God?

Answer 10

God ‘adopts’ Israel in a relationship + in return Israel promises moral + religious obedience

Question 11

What is entered on the 10 Commandments?

Answer 11

The Law given by God to Moses of religious obedience

Question 12

Where does Jesus say “I and God are one”?

Answer 12

John 10:30

Question 13

What does the New Testament say about what Jesus tells his followers?

Answer 13

Whoever weakens in obeying the 10 commandments/teaches others to weaken will be called least in the Kingdom of Heaven

Question 14

What is said in Mark’s gospel?

Answer 14

‘The Lord our God is one’

Question 15

What is at the heart of salvation?

Answer 15

Moral obedience

Question 16

What does God have the power to do?

Answer 16

Only God has the authority + love to save humanity from its sins

Question 17

What do Christians disagree on?

Answer 17

What it means for God to be omnipotent bc he can be defined in diff ways

Question 18

What is the first thing Christians believe about God’s omnipotence? Give an example

Answer 18

God’s omnipotence means he can even to the logically impossible e.g. make 2+2 total to 50

Question 19

What is the second thing Christians believe about God’s omnipotence?

Answer 19

God’s omnipotence means he can do anything thats ‘logically possible’

Question 20

Why do many Christians find it importance to accept that God can ONLY do the ‘logically possible’?

Answer 20

Because of the problem of evil

Question 21

What happens if the fact that God can do anything logically impossible is true?

Answer 21

We are faced w the prob of why God doesn’t control evil in the world

Question 22

Which scholars maintain that God can only do the logically possible?

Answer 22

Hick and Plantinga

Question 23

What do Process Theologians believe?

Answer 23

Deny God’s omnipotence bc the sheer extent of evil in the world shows that God can’t be all-powerful

Question 24

What do some Christians believe about where God’s creation came from? Why do most reject this?

Answer 24

The universe comes ‘ex deo’ (‘from God’s own being’)
Most reject this bc it would mean God + his creation are the same thing

Question 25

What do other Christians believe about God's creation?

Answer 25

Ex nihilo ('out of nothing') - the universe is some kind of mental construct from God

Question 26

What is said in the revised translation from Hebrew about God's creation?

Answer 26

"God said let there be light and there was light"

Question 27

What do Process Theologians believe about creation?

Answer 27

God created the universe using already existing chaotic matter which he put into an ordered state

Question 28

What does Hick argue about evil?

Answer 28

What we perceive as evil provides stimulus for spiritual development into children of God

Question 29

What does Augustine say about evil?

Answer 29

Denies the existence of evil; evil is just an absence of good

Question 30

What's the problem with believing God created EVERYTHING in the universe?

Answer 30

Means he created evil too

Question 31

What does God do for the universe in terms of control?

Answer 31

God sustains the universe + preserves it from destruction

Question 32

What's theological determinism?

Answer 32

God's omniscience means he knows present, past + future so the future is fixed + unavoidable

Question 33

What does Aquinas believe about omniscience?

Answer 33

God doesn't exist in time; but timelessly He sees results of our future, free choices but doesn't cause them

Question 34

What is God's transcendence?

Answer 34

Beyond time + space

Question 35

What does Boethius say?

Answer 35

God can see everything all at once Past, present + future

Question 36

How does Rudolf Otto describe God?

Answer 36

Holy + numinous

Question 37

How does the Old Testament describe God?

Answer 37

Father, Creator + Judge

Question 38

How does the New Testament describe God?

Answer 38

Jesus, human + Holy Spirit

Question 39

When was the apostolic creed written?

Answer 39

Just after Jesus' death

Question 40

When was the nicene creed written?

Answer 40

About 300 yrs after Jesus' death

Question 41

What is outlined and reaffirmed in the Apostolic Creed + Nicene Creed?

Answer 41

Belief in trinity + Jesus was consubstantial w the Father

Question 42

What is the Holy Spirit active in?

Answer 42

In the world today

Question 43

What is mutual indwelling?

Answer 43

The Father is in the son The son is in the father etc

Question 44

Why did God send the son?

Answer 44

As the atonement, to redeem, humans from sin

Question 45

Who is the Son in the Holy Trinity?

Answer 45

Human; able to make atonement through his death on the cross

Question 46

What does the Holy Spirit do in the Trinity?

Answer 46

Gives new birth in Jesus so humans have the hope of eternal life

Question 47

What is an imminent God?

Answer 47

Answers prayers, performs miracles, intervenes in history, relates to ppl

Question 48

What happens if 'Son of God' is taken in the Trinitarian sense?

Answer 48

Then Jesus' authority is God's authority

Question 49

What happen if 'Son of God; is taken in the 'liberal' sense?

Answer 49

Jesus' authority is merely human

Question 50

What does describing God as having human actions, emotions + a body do?

Answer 50

Reduces God to a human level; God w human characteristics makes him have the physical limitations of humans

Question 51

What does saying God judges, forgives + laments mean?

Answer 51

Suggests God has a conscious brain; how can we understand a God whose brain states are analysable like ours?

Question 52

What does Sigmund Freud call God?

Answer 52

The concept of wish fulfilment

Question 53

What does calling God 'father' reflect?

Answer 53

The practice of Ancient Near East patriarchal societies Oldest male has complete power

Question 54

How are God's actions reflective of the patriarchal father?

Answer 54

Instructs humans to be fruitful + multiply; ordains diff roles for women + men; punishes disobedience

Question 55

What's the issue of God as love?

Answer 55

The problem of evil (inconsistent triad)

Question 56

What's God's love?

Answer 56

Basis of the covenant for Israel

Question 57

What does Mary Daly say about God + father?

Answer 57

"If God is male then male is God"

Question 58

Where is love shown?

Answer 58

- Love is shown in Jesus' sacrifice - Greatest gift of the spirit of love

Question 59

What's the most important aspect of this royal imagery?

Answer 59

In its use in the New Testament to portray Jesus as Messiah

Question 60

What do process theologians believe about God + physical matter?

Answer 60

Eternal + uncreated + exist pantheistically: the universe is in God + God is in the universe