Quiz 4 Flashcards
What does Sheed say God gains by creating and why?
God gains nothing through creation because he is perfectly self-sufficient. He made creation because we would like it.
What does Sheed say is our greatest glory as God’s creatures?
We can glorify God.
Sheed says that the “primary truth about ourselves” is _____ and _____.
God willed us into being out of nothing, and he wills our continued existence.
Science studies the constitution of matter - what things are made of. What are the two far more vital questions Sheed says no science can study?
By whom were things made, and for what were they made?
“God’s will is the only law for sane people.” Briefly explain the meaning for Sheed saying this.
“The will of God is the only thing holding us in existence”. If we disobey God’s will, we will to not exist.
What are the two vast divisions of the universe God created and what is the one difference between them that is paramount?
Spirit, and matter. Only spiritual beings are made in his image and likeness.
“Sanity demands that we correct this strange defect in our seeing.” Briefly explain what Sheed says is the strange defect.
We tend to forget about angels, even though they are as equally harmful or nourishing as physical things.
Briefly explain the one reason Sheed gives for the resurrection of our bodies at the last day.
It is man’s role in the universe to be the connection between spirit and matter.
The creeds speak of God the Father as Creator of heaven and earth. But Scripture is insistent, too, that all things were created by the Son (Jn 1:3; Heb 1:2). How does Sheed explain how these two truths combine?
Created things are originated by the Father, and given order by the wisdom of the Son.
According to Sheed, the Fathers and Doctors of the Church never thought of Genesis _____.
“as giving us a scientific blueprint of creation”
Sheed says Catholics are not forced to choose between evolution and creation because they answer two totally different questions. Briefly explain his response.
Creation answers why the universe exists, evolution answers how it developed.
What does Sheed say God breathed into man?
“his own image and likeness - a spiritual soul.”
Breifly explain what Sheed gives as the difference between the soul of plants and animals and the soul of man.
The soul of man has powers beyond matter, the soul of plants and animals do not.
What is the “final point” in the relation of the soul and body that Sheed gives regarding man?
the body and soul are not two separate things.
“God’s will is the reason for man’s existence; so God’s will must be the law or his existence. To disobey the law is _____; to think we can gain by disobeying it is _____.”
to sin, insanity.
