God

Question 1

What is monotheism?

Answer 1

• the belief there’s only one god

Question 2

What does omnipotent mean? I

Answer 2

• all powerful

Question 3

What does transcendent mean?

Answer 3

• god is above and beyond space-time

Question 4

Quote for monotheism?

Answer 4

“Before me no God was formed, not shall there be any after me”

Question 5

In the Old Testament what is at the heart of the covenant?

Answer 5

• good moral behaviour

Question 6

What is salvation?

Answer 6

• being saved from sin

Question 7

What’s at the heart of salvation?

Answer 7

• moral obedience

Question 8

How can Christians know how to be saved into the kingdom of god?

Answer 8

• the ethical teaching of Jesus

Question 9

What do some think about Gods omnipotence?

Answer 9

• he can do absolutely anything

- including the logically impossible

Question 10

What do others think about Gods omnipotence?

Answer 10

• he can do anything ‘logically possible’

Question 11

Whats a problem of Gods omnipotence?

Answer 11

• evil and suffering

Question 12

What does Hick and Plantinga say about the second view of Gods omnipotence?

Answer 12

• agree with it

- it’s not logically possible for God to allow humans to be truly free and to get rid of evil at the same time

Question 13

What do some Christians believe about the creation of the universe?

Answer 13

• created ex Deo

Question 14

What is Ex Deo?

Answer 14

• out of Gods own being

Question 15

What do most Christians believe about the creation of the universe?

Answer 15

• created Ex Nihilo

Question 16

What is ex nihilo?

Answer 16

• creation from nothing

Question 17

Quote for creatio ex nihilo?

Answer 17

“Let there be light and there was light”

Question 18

What’s a view that matter already existed?

Answer 18

• Gods creative acts are to bring about order in pre existing chaos
• hence his first act of creating light

Question 19

If gods the all powerful creator of everything what’s the issue here?

Answer 19

• he must’ve created evil

Question 20

What’s the view of God being the controller of everything?

Answer 20

• god sustains the universe

- he hold it in existence and preserves it from destruction

Question 21

How does god preserve the universe?

Answer 21

• from falling back into the chaos

- human morality by providing a code by which Christians follow e.g the 10 commandments

Question 22

What does omniscient mean?

Answer 22

• all knowing

Question 23

What would it mean for God to be all knowing?

Answer 23

• the future is fixed and unavoidable

Question 24

What does the theological determinism mean?

Answer 24

• humans do not have free will

- god has absolute control over a persons actions

Question 25

What does Gods transcendent mean?

Answer 25

• Gods true nature is unknowable