Test 4 - Chapters 13-16

Question 1

All things that God decided to will but had no necessity to will according to His nature.

Answer 1

Free Will

Question 2

Those things that God must will according to His own nature.

Answer 2

Necessary will

Question 3

Gods declared will concerning what we should do or what God commands us to do.

Answer 3

Revealed will

Question 4

God’s hidden decrees by which He governs the universe and determines everything that will happen.

Answer 4

Secret will

Question 5

God’s exercise of power over His creation

Answer 5

Soverignty

Question 6

The false teaching that Jesus lived as an ordinary man until his baptism, at which time God “adopted” him as his “Son” and conferred on him supernatural powers; this teaching thus denies jesus pre-existence and divine nature.

Answer 6

Adoptionism

Question 7

The erroneous doctrine that denies the full diety of the Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit

Answer 7

Arianism

Question 8

The heretical teaching that holds that God is not really three distinct persons but only one person who appears to people in different “modes” at different times.

Answer 8

Modalism

Question 9

Another term for modalism

Answer 9

Modalistic monarchism

Question 10

A phrase that describes the members of the Trinity as eternally equal in being or existence.

Answer 10

Ontological equality

Question 11

The heretical teaching that the Son was inferior or “subordinate” in being than God the Father

Answer 11

Subordinationsim

Question 12

The belief that there are three gods.

Answer 12

Tritheism

Question 13

An “old earth” theory of creation that view the days of Genesis 1 as extremely long “ages” of time.

Answer 13

Day-age theory

Question 14

The view that God created the universe but is not now directly involved in the creation.

Answer 14

Deism

Question 15

The idea that both God and the material universe have eternally existed side-by-side as two ultimate forces in the universe. It implies that there is an eternal conflict between God and the evil aspects of the material universe.

Answer 15

Dualism

Question 16

The idea that between Genesis 1;1 and 1:2 is a gap of millions of years during which God judged an earlier creation, making it “without form and void” and necessitating a second creation depicted in Genesis 1:3-2:3

Answer 16

Gap-theory

Question 17

The view that the material universe is all that exists.

Answer 17

Materialism

Question 18

The idea that the whole universe is God or part of God

Answer 18

Pantheism

Question 19

The theory that God used the process of evolution to bring about all of the life forms on earth

Answer 19

Theistic evolution

Question 20

A theory of creation that view the earth as relatively young, perhaps as young as 10,000 or 20,000 years old.

Answer 20

Young earth theory

Question 21

A theological tradition that seeks to preserve the free choices of human beings and denies Gods providential control over the details of all events.

Answer 21

Arminianism

Question 22

A theological tradition named after the 16th century French reformer John Calvin, that emphasizes the soverignty of God in all things, mans inability to do spiritual good before God, and the glory of God as the highest end of all that occurs.

Answer 22

Calvinism

Question 23

Choices made according to our free will

Answer 23

Free choice

Question 24

All things that God decided to will but had no necessity to will according to his nature.

Answer 24

Free will

Question 25

The doctrine that God is continually involved with all created things in such a way that he 1) keeps them existing and maintaining the properties with which he created them; 2) Cooperates with created things in every action directing their distinctive properties to cause them to act as they do 3)directs them to fulfill his purpose

Answer 25

Providence

Question 26

Another term for the theological tradition known as Calvinism

Answer 26

Reformed

Question 27

The properties and actions of created things that bring about events in the world

Answer 27

Secondary cause

Question 28

Choices that are made in accord with our desires, with no awareness of restraints on our will or compulsion against our will

Answer 28

Voluntary choices

Question 29

Choices that are made in accord with our desires, with no awareness of restraints on our will.

Answer 29

Willing choices