Test 2

Question 0

Who first used the argument of suffering against faith?

Answer 0

Epicurus

Question 1

What is considered the greatest challege to the Christian faith?

Answer 1

The fact of suffering

Question 2

Benevolent

Answer 2

Absolute good

Question 3

Ominscient

Answer 3

All knowing

Question 4

Prescient

Answer 4

Knowing the future as if it were the past

Question 5

Omnipotent

Answer 5

All powerful

Question 6

3 Characteristics That Athiests Believe Are Inconsistent with the Christian Faith

Answer 6

Christians believe in a God who is…

1. Benevolent
2. Omniscient
3. Omnipotent

Question 7

4 Alternatives To Explain Evil in the World (according the the problem of evil)

Answer 7

1. There is a God that is not good
2. There is a God that is not omniscient
3. There is a God that is not omnipotent
4. There is not a God

Question 8

Types of Evil and Give an Example of Each

Answer 8

1. Evil from animate nature (lions and tigers and bears)
2. Evil from inanimate nature (hurricanes, tornados)
3. Evil from man’s inhumanity to man (murder, rape)

Question 9

Why does the athiest have no logical basis to make the argument?

Answer 9

There would be no such thing as right or wrong

Question 10

How does the athiest commit a self-contradiction when making the argument

Answer 10

Athiests imagine an omnipotent God who created a being with free will who cannot sin

Question 11

Explain why is that a self-contradiction

Answer 11

If there is free will there will be sin

Question 12

What would you have to be to know what an omnipotent, omniscient God would do?

Answer 12

An omnipotent, omniscient God

Question 13

What did Augustine say in response to Epicurus?

Answer 13

If there is no God, why is there so much good?

Question 14

Altruism

Answer 14

Selfless concern for the interest of others

Question 15

Why is altruism a problem for athiests?

Answer 15

There shouldn’t be altruism when survival of the fitess governs

Question 16

What characteristic of the human being made in the image of God makes evil possible?

Answer 16

Free will

Question 17

What decided that the serpent, the woman, and the man was cursed as a result of their sin?

Answer 17

The ground

So that creation itself was subjected to frustration

Question 18

What, according the Romans 8:20, will share in our liberation?

Answer 18

Creation itself

Question 19

The creation sharing in our liberation is a reference to what?

Answer 19

The New Heaven and New Earth

Question 20

According to Romans 8:28, what can God still achieve?

Answer 20

He can achieve good from evil

- In all things God works for good

Question 21

Where will ultimately evil be destroyed and only good will remain?

Answer 21

The New Heaven and the New Earth

Question 22

Kalam Argument for God

Answer 22

1. Whatever begins to exist has a cause
2. The cosmos began to exist
3. Therefore the cosmos has a cause