Midterm Multiple Choice

Question 1

Define Epistemology

Answer 1

The study of how we acquire knowledge

Question 2

How is God revealed to us?

Answer 2

through the Bible

Question 3

What defines what we can say about God as Christians?

Answer 3

the Bible

Question 4

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

Answer 4

self-revelation, revelation from above

Question 5

Because humanity is “fallen” where must revelation start?

Answer 5

Scripture

Question 6

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

Answer 6

it is good

Question 7

What must a Christian say about the OT?

Answer 7

revelation from God about Himself

Question 8

What does the NT revelation build on?

Answer 8

the Old Testament

Question 9

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

Answer 9

Let the OT speak to the NT and inform later philosophy

Question 10

What is biblically appropriate in speaking of God?

Answer 10

We must 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

denies the existence of God

Question 13

What is an agnostic?

Answer 13

asserts the existence of God is unknowable

Question 14

What is a pantheist?

Answer 14

equates God with nature or the forces of the universe

Question 15

What is a polytheist?

Answer 15

one who believes in more than one God

Question 16

What makes up the belief of Ditheism?

Answer 16

the belief in 2 gods, is a form of polytheism

Question 17

What is Tritheism?

Answer 17

the belief in 3 gods, is a form of polytheism

Question 18

Which of these religions are monotheistic?

Answer 18

Judaism, Islam and Christianity are

Question 19

What constitutes trinitarianism?

Answer 19

3 distinct persons in the Godhead, yet one God

Question 20

What are the two extreme tendencies in trinitarian thought?

Answer 20

1) emphasizes the unity of God without paying attention to persons
2) emphasizes 3ness, rejects/doesn’t pay attention to the unity

Question 21

What makes binitarianism unique?

Answer 21

Does not classify the Holy Ghost as a separate person

Question 22

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

Answer 22

weaken the strict monotheism taught by the Bible

Question 23

Which of the following represents strict monotheism?

Answer 23

Asserts there’s only one God, but does so by denying the full deity of Jesus Christ

Question 24

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

Answer 24

Paul of Samosata and the Arians

Question 25

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

Answer 25

Believe fullness of the Godhead is in Jesus Christ

Question 26

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

Answer 26

modalism

Question 27

Who are some of these strict monotheists from history?

Answer 27

Noetus, Praxeas, and 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

Question 31

Is there a place for a trinity in the OT?

Answer 31

No