Mid-terms-Multiple Choice

Question 1

Define Epistemology.

Answer 1

Study of how we acquire knowledge

Question 2

How is God revealed to us?

Answer 2

He is self-revealed.

Question 3

What defines what we can say about God as Christians?

Answer 3

Scripture.

Question 4

In our approach to understanding God what is the best starting point?

Answer 4

Not with human philosophy, let the OT speak to the NT.

Question 5

Because humanity is “fallen” where must revelation start?

Answer 5

All of the above.

Question 6

When we consider how God revealed Himself in Scripture what is a proper Christian response?

Answer 6

God’s process of revelation is good.

Question 7

What must a Christian say about the OT?

Answer 7

Lays out true revelation of God.

Question 8

What does the NT revelation build on?

Answer 8

OT

Question 9

According to Hendrikus Berkoff’s a better hermetical approach to God’s revelation in Scripture is which of the following?

Answer 9

Let the OT speak to the NT and let that inform later philosophy.

Question 10

What is biblically appropriate in speaking of God?

Answer 10

We can only say what scripture says.

Question 11

What is the belief in one God called?

Answer 11

Monotheism

Question 12

What is an atheist?

Answer 12

Person who doesn’t believe in the existence of God.

Question 13

What is an agnostic?

Answer 13

Person who believes the existence of God is unknown and unknowable.

Question 14

What is a pantheist?

Answer 14

Equates God with nature or forces of the universe.

Question 15

What is a polytheist?

Answer 15

Person who believes in more than 1 god.

Question 16

What makes up the belief of Ditheism?

Answer 16

Belief of 2 gods, is a form of polytheism.

Question 17

What is Tritheism?

Answer 17

Belief in 3 gods, form of polytheism.

Question 18

Which of these religions are monotheistic?

Answer 18

Christianity, Judaism, Islam

Question 19

What constitutes trinitarianism?

Answer 19

3 distinct persons in the Godhead, but one God.

Question 20

What are the 2 extreme tendencies in trinitarian thought?

Answer 20

1. Emphasizes the unity of God without understanding of 3 distinct persons. 2. Emphasize the 3ness of the trinity to the point they believe in 3 self-conscious beings.

Question 21

What makes binitarianism unique?

Answer 21

Doesn’t classify Holy Ghost as a person.

Question 22

Many monotheists have pointed out that both trinitarianism and binitarianism ultimately do what?

Answer 22

Weaken the strict monotheism. It is a stumbling block to Jews and Muslims.

Question 23

Which of the following represents strict monotheism?

Answer 23

There is only one God, but deny’s the full deity of Jesus Christ.

Question 24

Who represents strict monotheism and yet rejects the full divinity of Christ?

Answer 24

Dynamic monarchians, like; Paul of Samosata & Arians led by Arius.

Question 25

Which of the following represents the second class of true monotheists?

Answer 25

All above

Question 26

What is the term Church historians have used for this second class of strict monotheists?

Answer 26

Modalism & modalistic monarchianism.

Question 27

Who are some of these strict monotheists from history?

Answer 27

Noetus, Praxeas, & Sabellius.

Question 28

What term in the twentieth century is used by those who believe in both the indivisible oneness of God and the full deity of Jesus Christ to describe themselves?

Answer 28

Oneness.

Question 29

What has been, and still is, a major stumbling block for Jewish people in terms of accepting Christianity?

Answer 29

Trinity.

Question 30

What does the OT reveal about God’s nature?

Answer 30

He is One God.

Question 31

Is there a place for a trinity in the OT?

Answer 31

No