RaPS test 1

Question 1

Define Gd

Answer 1

The Supreme Being

Question 2

Define omnibenevolence

Answer 2

All loving, all good

Question 3

Define omnipotence

Answer 3

Almighty, unlimited power

Question 4

Define omniscience

Answer 4

All knowing

Question 5

Define omnipresent

Answer 5

All present, all sustaining

Question 6

Define theist

Answer 6

A person who believes in Gd

Question 7

Define atheist

Answer 7

A person who believes there is no Gd

Question 8

Define agnostic

Answer 8

A person who neither believes or disbelieves in Gd

Question 9

Define evil

Answer 9

The opposite of good. A force or the personification of a negative power

Question 10

Define suffering

Answer 10

When people have to face and live with unpleasant events or conditions

Question 11

Define natural suffering/evil

Answer 11

Suffering by the physical world

Question 12

Define moral/human evil

Answer 12

Suffering caused by humans

Question 13

Explain the inconsistent triad

Answer 13

Gd can’t be omnibenevolent, omnipotent whilst evil exists

Question 14

Define theodicy

Answer 14

A theistic response to the problem of evil/suffering a way of making the inconsistent triad consistent

Question 15

Define freewill

Answer 15

Belief that Gd gives people the opportunity to make decisions for themselves

Question 16

Define Afterlife

Answer 16

Belief in the existence of life in some form after death

Question 17

Define Heaven

Answer 17

A state of eternal happiness in the presence of Gd

Question 18

Define Hell

Answer 18

The place of eternal suffering or the state of being without Gd

Question 19

Define Satan

Answer 19

Name for the devil - the power and source of evil

Question 20

Define Original sin

Answer 20

Adam and Eve’s disobedience that brought evil and suffering into Gd’s perfect world

Question 21

Define Samsara (B)

Answer 21

Cycle of life and death (Not reincarnation)

Question 22

Define Karma (B)

Answer 22

A person’s actions. The idea that good (skillful) actions result in happiness and bad (unskillful) actions result in suffering

Question 23

What are the four noble truths? (B)

Answer 23

We suffer
We suffer due to craving
We can overcome this suffering
By following the eight-fold path

Question 24

Define the Eightfold path (B)

Answer 24

Eight aspects that Buddhists practise and live by in order to achieve enlightenment

Question 25

What are the three poisons? (B)

Answer 25

Greed, hatred and ignorance- the main causes of suffering

Question 26

Define Nirvana (B)

Answer 26

Extinguishing the poisons - peace - no longer trapped in Samsara