Test 2a Flashcards
For humans independence is an illusion.
True
What is the term used for God’s self-existence?
Aseity
God did hot need to create anything because he was fully and absolutely satisfied in the relationship between the persons of the Trinity.
True
What is the term that refers to a person’s most basic identity?
Essence
What is the term that means God is one, not the sum total of many parts?
simplicity
The unity and diversity of Christian worship reflects the unity and diversity of the Trinity.
True
What is the term for the tendency to see the world either as unified or as a lot of individual objects?
one to many problem
The Trinity refers to the three distinct persons of the one true
God
True
In the Scripture the concept of the Trinity did not begin to be revealed until the New Testament.
False
Which error claims that each part of the Trinity is a manifestation of the Game person?
modalism
Which error claims that three individual gods compose the Trinity?
Thrithism
Which error denies that each person of the Trinily is fully God?
partialism
It is idolatry to think of God as a man with superpowers.
True
The Trinity is beautiful because it nature makes perfect sense to our understanding.
False
What is the term for the belief in more than one God?
polytheism
Which name for God is the general term for God used in the OT, the term plural, suggesting the one God is a plurality of persons?
Elohim
Which term typically an adjective is used to describe God as three persons who are the one God?
Triune
It is not important for God to be infinite
False
God’s omniscience is like a storehouse of information or like an infinite computer memory. The information is available to him as needed.
False
Which term means that God is present everywhere at every point in all creation with his whole being?
Omnipresent
Which term refers to God’s immediate simultaneous and eternal knowledge of all things past present and future whether actual or possible?
Omniscience
Which term means God is limitless and power, and is able to do anything consistent with his character?
Omnipotent
T/F- it is accurate to say that God is love
True
T/F-God is devoted to Himself
True
What are the three major ways the book describes how God demonstrates His love?
-Grace
-Mercy
-Persistence
T/F- God’s will relates to his power to do what he has planned
True
T/F-God governs most things as he pleases
False
What is the term that means God’s constant work of preserving His creation and specifically his people?
Providence
What is the term for the system of theology that limits God’s power over humanity’s free choices and his knowledge of future events and allows humans to maintain full freedom of will?
Open Theism
Which term means lacking power, strength, or vigor?
Impotent
T/F- God always brings calamity for his own glory
True
T/F-Part of the curse of sin is the presence of calamity in our world.
False
What is the term for an event that brings about great distress and often suffering?
Calamity
T/F-Sin is not natural because God made everything and in harmony with himself.
True
What it the term for the fierce anger of God?
Wrath
T/F-Jesus Christ is the begotten Son of the Father
True
T/F-According to the Qur’an to say that Jesus is God or the Son of God is blasphemy.
True
T/F-Christians and Muslims worship the same God but with a different name
false
T/F-The fatherhood of God in the bible focuses on the Father’s provision for people rather than his authority.
false
T/F-No one can reject God the Son and know God the Father.
True
What is the term for one who takes on the full wrath of the offended party for the sake of the guilty party?
Propitiation
T/F-The work of creation was a triune activity
True
