GOD

Question 1

What is monotheism?

Answer 1

Only 1 God

Question 2

Quote from Old Testament about monotheism

Isaiah 44:6

Answer 2

“I am the first and I am the last; apart from me there is no God” (Isaiah 44:6)

Question 3

Quote from Deuteronomy about monotheism?

Answer 3

“Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.”

Deuteronomy 6:4

Question 4

What was Israel’s monotheism?

Answer 4

It was not a philosophical concept, but it is applied to life; it was ethical monotheism.

Question 5

What did Jesus say was the greatest commandment?

Answer 5

“The most important one… is this: ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘Love your neighbour as yourself.’ There is no commandment great than these.” -Mark 12:29-31

Question 6

What is Ethical monotheism?

Answer 6

Ethical Monotheism means that belief in one God includes also following the moral codes linked to that belief, e.g. the Ten Commandments

Question 7

What is Descartes’ view on omnipotence?

Answer 7

God can do absolutely anything. (Can raise issues relating to the problem of evil)

Question 8

What is anothet view from Christians about God’s omnipotence?

Answer 8

God is able to do anything that is logically possible.

Question 9

What is one approach a minority of Christians think in terms of God the Omnipotent Creator?

Answer 9

A minority of Christians think in terms of the universe as coming out of God’s own being.

Question 10

What is a view from many Christians about God as Omnipotent creator?

Answer 10

The view accepted by many Christians is that the universe was created by God out of nothing (EX NIHILO).

Question 11

What is another approach of God as an Omnipotent Creator?

Answer 11

The third approach, using an alternative translation and adopted by process theology, is the view that the Earth was already in existence and in a state of chaos. God then ordered it.

Question 12

What does “God as King” express?

Answer 12

Everything is subject to God’s control.

Question 13

What do most Christians believe that God does now after creating the universe?

Answer 13

God not only created the universe, he also sustains it.

Question 14

What do ethical teachings in the Bible show about God as the Omnipotent controller of all things?

Answer 14

They show how God sustains human life in the spiritual as well as the physical sense.

Question 15

What is theological determinism when it comes to omniscience?

Answer 15

God knows past, present and future absolutely and in a causative sense. This means he controls our actions as he controls everything in the universe.

Question 16

What do Christians say about God not being in space and time?

Answer 16

Because God exists beyond space and time, spatio-temporal language is not appropriate in relation to him, but we have to use it because it is all we have. God simply sees and knows all things, including the free choices that humans make, but his knowledge is not causative. (AQUINAS)

Question 17

What did Swinburne say about God’s omnipotence?

Answer 17

God exists within time and knows all that is logically possible for God to know. This means he can’t know our future choices so he doesn’t cause our actions… but he might predict them.

Question 18

What is God said to be?

Answer 18

Transcendent and unknowable

Question 19

What is aseity?

Answer 19

The belief in God’s self-existence; it is his nature to exist.

Question 20

What evidence shows that we cannot understand what it means to be God?

Answer 20

When Moses asked to know God’s name, the reply was ‘I am who I am.’

Question 21

What is a clue in the Old Testament of the Trinity?

Answer 21

The Hebrew Word for God (“Elohim”) is plural.

Question 22

What is said in Genesis 1 that shows part of the Trinity?

Answer 22

God as the ‘father’ of the universe created through his word and his spirit broods over the watery chaos.

Question 23

What is a good hint showing the Trinity in the New Testament?

Answer 23

The Baptism of Jesus:
“Just as Jesus was coming up out of the water, he saw heaven being torn open and the Spirit descending on him like a dive. And a voice came from heaven: ‘You are my Son, whom I love; with you I am well pleased.”
Mark 1:10-11

Question 24

What did Church leaders in the early centuries of the Church’s existence consider when setting out the doctrine of the Trinity?

Answer 24

• Biblical Text
• Their conviction that Jesus was uniquely the Son of God.
• Their exoerience of the power of the Holy Spirit guiding lives of individual Christians and the life of the Church as a whole.

Question 25

What are the 3 parta of the Trinity?

Answer 25

FATHER, SON AND HOLY SPIRIT

Question 26

What is a key feature in understanding the Trinity?

Answer 26

Each Person possses fully all the attributes of the Godhead.

For example, eternity, omnipotence, omniscience etc.

Question 27

How is the relationship between the three persons?

Answer 27

One of mutual indwelling.

Question 28

What is a quote from Pope Bendict XVI that talks about the relationship between the Persons of the Trinity?

Answer 28

God is not solitude but perfect communion.

Question 29

How does the Trinity important in reflecting us?

Answer 29

The diversity together with unity within creation reflects the diversity with the unity of the Godhead.

Question 30

How does the Trinity connect to the Christian beliefs about sin and atonement?

Answer 30

Christians who belive in the doctrine of the Original Sin claim that Gid sent his only son the atone for that sin through his crucifixion and resurrection and so reconcile humans to God.
The Holy Spirit works within believers’ hearts and lives, giving hope of eternal life.

Question 31

What paradoxical claim does the Trinity explain?

Answer 31

Explains the claim that God is both transcendent and immanent.

Question 32

How did Moltmann describe the relationship between the Persons of the Trinity?

Answer 32

Mutual self-giving and receiving love… like human relationships.