Quiz 2

Question 1

What does Sheed offer as a first step towards forming our idea of God?

Answer 1

Imagine our soul existing without a body

Question 2

What reason does Sheed give for his contention that God is not our equal?

Answer 2

God is infinite, we are not

Question 3

According to Sheed, what does it mean to say, “God is without limit or boundary or end”?

Answer 3

God is infinite. There are no limitations to His knowledge, love, or power

Question 4

What does Sheed identify as the greatest difference or limitation of all our spiritual souls and God?

Answer 4

we owe our existence to God

Question 5

What reason does Sheed give that God does not have to receive existence?

Answer 5

Something needed to exist without being created in order to create everything else.

Question 6

What does sheed say is the primary truth about God?

Answer 6

He is existence

Question 7

In what sense does Sheed argue God is omnipresent?

Answer 7

He is in everything. Everything uses His energy to exist.

Question 8

What does Sheed say time is?

Answer 8

Time is the measurement of change

Question 9

How does Sheed define eternity?

Answer 9

Eternity is God’s total possession of Himself

Question 10

What are the three great activities of the infinite Spirit Sheed presents?

Answer 10

Knowing, Loving, Creating (Power)*

*power isn’t an activity

Question 11

Sheed states that God’s knowing is not distinct from himself, but it is _____

Answer 11

Himself

Question 12

When discussing the three persons of the Trinity, Sheed concentrated on the two great operations of the Spirit saying that “God _____ and _____ infinitely”

Answer 12

knows, loves

Question 13

The pagan’s desire to find companionship for God was a true insight, but, according to Sheed, their solution was wrong. In what way does Sheed say Christ Our Lord gave the correct solution?

Answer 13

“There is a companionship within the one divine nature”. God can keep His own company because He is three Persons

Question 14

According to Sheed, “It is in the _____ that the divine life is lived”

Answer 14

“knowledge and love of the three persons”

Question 15

What four truths does Sheed give as the barest outline of the Trinity?

Answer 15

1. There are three Persons in one divine nature: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit
2. Each Person is wholly Himself and not the others.
3. The Father is God, the Son is God, the Holy Spirit is God.
4. They are not three Gods, but one God

Question 16

In his discussion about person and nature, Sheed points out that “what” asks about the _____, “who” asks about _____.

Answer 16

nature, person

Question 17

What two pints does Sheed want his readers to be accurate in understanding the relation of the tree divine persons and the divine nature?

Answer 17

1. Three persons can exist in one nature.

2. Each of the Persons is God, but They are one God, not three.