Origins And Meanings

Question 1

Key Concept:

Omnipotence

Answer 1

The belief that God is All powerful.

Question 2

Key Concept:

Inspiration

Answer 2

“God breathed”

The belief that the spirit of God guides an individual to act or write what is good or true.

Question 3

Key Concept:

Revelation

Answer 3

The word used to describe all the ways God makes himself known to Human beings.

Question 4

Key Concept:

Transcendence

Answer 4

Existing outside of space and time.

God exists in a way that makes him nothing like anything else that exists, above and beyond creation.

Question 5

Key Concept:

Creation ex nihilo

Answer 5

Creation out of nothing.

Before God created the universe, nothing existed. Only God can create out of nothing.

Question 6

The Bible:
How many books in the Old and New Testament?
(Give an example of what they contain)

Answer 6

Old Testament - 39 books:
e.g. The Creation Story and Books about Prophets.
New Testament - 27 books:
e.g. Parables about Jesus who Christians believe is the Son Of God.

Question 7

The Bible:

What do Christians think about the Bible’s appearance?

Answer 7

Bibles look old and worn out as it is about the content inside of it which matters, not the appearance.

Question 8

The Bible:

Give some examples of writing found in the Bible.

Answer 8

Psalms
Letters
Poems
Law books

Question 9

Inspiration and Revelation:

What do Fundamentalists believe ?

Answer 9

Fundamentalists believe the Bible is word for word true.

Question 10

Inspiration and Revelation:

What do Catholics believe about the Bible?

Answer 10

They believe that you have to look at the deeper meaning and messages in the Bible.
The Bible contains God’s revelations.

Question 11

Inspiration and revelation:

What influenced Bible writers ?

Answer 11

God’s Holy Spirit.

Question 12

The Catholic Stool:
Name the 3 things which Catholics look to in decision making.
Briefly describe them.

Answer 12

Magisterium:
- They discuss what is right and wrong, they are the inspired role of the Catholic Church.
Tradition:
- Something repeated and passed through generations.
The Bible:
- Writers inspired by God.

Question 13

The conscience:

What is the conscience?

Answer 13

Like a voice in people’s head telling you what you can and can’t do wrong .
The conscience has authority when it comes to making moral decisions.

Question 14

Creation ex nihilo:

What is Creation ex nihilo?

Answer 14

Creation out of Nothing.

If God did not decided to create the universe, there would still be nothing.

Question 15

Creation ex nihilo:

Give a quote for a quality of God.

Answer 15

“For there is nothing that you cannot do. You are good and all that you make must be good.”

Question 16

Creation ex nihilo:

Give a quality of good.

Answer 16

Creator of all things.

Question 17

St Augustine :

What was he interested in ?

Answer 17

As a teen, he was interested in philosophy (rhetorics).

Question 18

St Augustine:

What did he feel was impossible?

Answer 18

He felt it was impossible to commit to God.

Question 19

St Augustine:

Who inspired him to reform?

Answer 19

Bishop Ambrose and his mother inspired him to reform.

Question 20

St Augustine:

What was he known as ?

Answer 20

The Most brilliant Christian writer of his time.

Question 21

Genesis and the Big Bang:

What is the Big Bang?

Answer 21

The theory that the universe exploded in an explosion of light, matter and energy from the cosmos.

Question 22

Genesis and the Big Bang:

What is the universe made from?

Answer 22

Residue (smoke from the big bang).

Question 23

G.K Chesterton:

What do Catholics believe that God is ?

Answer 23

They believe that God is eternal. This is represented by the circle as just like a circle, God has no beginning and no end. God has always existed, even when the universe wasn’t made.

Question 24

G.K Chesterton:

What did G.K. Chesterton think about the universe?

Answer 24

The world seems to have a plan behind it. The world shows evidence of design and purpose, which must have been caused by something unknown. Catholics understand that God must have done it because he is eternal.

Question 25

Catholic responses:

to scientific views on the origins of the universe?

Answer 25

For Catholics, there is no contradiction what Genesis says and what science says, because Genesis is theology not science.

Question 26

Catholic responses:

What does the author of Genesis try to say?

Answer 26

The author of Genesis is saying why things are they way they are, not how. The author of Genesis is trying to say that this universe, which God invites us to scientifically explore, had a beginning. In Genesis, this is the creative act of an omnibenevolent, omnipotent God, who created everything out of nothing.

Question 27

Evolution:

What do Catholics believe God’s intention was?

Answer 27

Catholics believe that God’s intention/ loving plan was to create human beings, through the Big Bang & evolution. They believe that it is part of the process in God’s plan.

Question 28

Evolution:

What did Pope John Paul say about evolution?

Answer 28

“Evolution shows how the human body evolved, Religions shows God’s love for us”

Question 29

Evolution:

What is evolution?

Answer 29

The process of mutation and natural selection which leads to changes in species over time to suit particular environments.

Question 30

Evolution:

What does Richard Dawkins believe?

Answer 30

There is no creator God who has a purpose , plan or design for the universe. It is the direct or indirect product of Darwinian natural selection.

Question 31

Evolution:

What does Dawkins say about humans?

Answer 31

Since humans are just packets of genes struggling to survive, there is no such things as a soul, nor is there any evidence of one.