part 2 Flashcards
● —– is the first act of God’s revelation
Creation
■ First way of knowing God
is through the created world.
General revelation
● He did not need any previously existing materials or help from anyone: this shows his omnipotence and his wisdom
EX NIHILO
In our journey, we also involve others in our journey
true or false
true
● God created the world out of nothing
EX NIHILO
God created the world out of love
EX AMORE
means in state of journeying
In statu viae
God Created this Contingent World out of Nothing. More than this cosmological insight, we are Creatio ex Amore. We are created out of love, and that love is sufficient reason for God to create us in His own image.
EX NIHILO
love with action
charity
God has no other reason for creating than his love and goodness; this love is natural to God
ex amore
Everything that God created is in the state
of journeying toward an ultimate
perfection yet to be attained
In statu viae
○ When God created the universe,
He’s out of it
○ Some admit that the world was
made by God, but as by a watchmaker who, once he has made a watch, abandons it to itself
Deism
You do not have the capability and the determination but God will still provide you with everything you need
true or false
You have the capability, the determination, which is why God provides you with everything you need
false
○ God is the universe, the universe is
God
○ Everything is God, that the world is
God, or that the development of the world is the development of God
Pantheism
God does not exist
○ Total rejection of the existence of God. Even Catholics can become atheists in the sense of praxis. You believe in God, you profess your beliefs in Him, but you practically think and do something evil right after you go to the mass
Atheism
○ Everything is scientific
○ Others reject any transcendent origin for the world, but see it as merely the interplay of matter that has always existed (ex: evolutionism and big bang theory
Materialism
First book in the Jewish and Christian scriptures
genesis
○ Material body = product of evil ○ According to some of these
conceptions, the world (at least the physical world) is evil, the product of a fall, and is thus to be rejected or left behind.
Gnosticism
Evil needs to exist for goodness to exist
Others have said that the world is a necessary emanation arising from God and returning to him. Still others have affirmed the existence of two eternal principles, Good and Evil, lightness and darkness, locked in permanent conflict.
dualism
God separated the sea and sky
day 2
t or f
Genesis uses the literary form of religious MYTH to speak about reality
t
God separated light and darkness
day 1
God separated waters and sand
day 3
God created plants
day 4
God created animals
day 5
God created man and and woman
day 6
The human being is both body and soil
true or false
true
—- is the original locale of human being
Eden