Truth Project Test 4, 6, 10 Flashcards
What two treasures are found within that ultimate truth?
Wisdom and knowledge.
Colossians 2:2-3 states that the Ultimate source of Truth is?
Christ.
This conference was an attempt by man to capture the infinite essence of God’s nature.
Westminster Confession.
In seeking for understanding about eternal life, _____ were seeking miraculous signs.
The Disciples.
In seeking for understanding about eternal life, _____ was seeking factual evidence.
Nicodemus.
In seeking for understanding about eternal life, _____ was seeking satisfaction in life.
Samaritan Woman.
In seeking for understanding about eternal life, _____ were seeking for evidence through the works being done on earth.
Jewish people.
True or False: The search of the Word of God contains the answers to eternal life.
False (only found in Jesus).
How will people have eternal life?
Whoever looks to Jesus and believes in Him.
Who did Jesus pray for just prior to His crucifixion?
For all of humanity.
What did Jesus ask God for those in His prayer?
That all humans may know God and Jesus.
Hosea 6:6 and Jeremiah 9:23-24 shows that the knowledge of God is living by?
Faith.
Hosea 6:6 and Jeremiah 9:23-24 shows that the knowledge of man is seeking?
Evidence.
What are the two manners in which we can trust the Word of God?
- It stands forever.
2. It is living and active.
Those who do not believe in the Word of God will try to _____ it and _____ it.
Discredit, minimize.
In 1776, _____ mocked those who believed in God by stating that within 100 years of his death Bibles will only be found in museums.
Voltaire.
In 1985, _____ attempted to discredit the authority of the Bible by using science methods to conclude that 82% of the words attributed to Jesus we’re not spoken to him.
Jesus Seminar.
God shows His protection of us through his jealous protection of what we believe. The name of God that describes this is?
El Qanna.
Through this jealous protection, God shows His _____ when sin threatens our _____ relationship with Him.
Zeal, covenant.
Proverbs 12:1 teaches that we are to love _____ because God uses correction to keep us from living in a _____ of following sin.
Discipline, lifestyle pattern.
Those who do not know God, will be able to hear it through our _____.
Love.
The intense, committed study of the Word of God makes us all _____.
Theologians.
Who stated that non-believers have to come to be open to discovering an understanding about the existence of God and the trustworthiness of God’s Word in order to believe?
R.C. Sproul
What does history provide?
Reminders of what God has done through man.
Using history to tell the story of humanity is known as a _____ _____.
Meta narrative.
What is significant about 1859?
Darwin’s “Origins of Species” was published.
According to Historical Revisionism, what happens if you rewrite the past?
You can make people believe whatever they want in the present.
What was the example of Historical Revisionism given from Jesus’ death?
The Romans guards false reporting of how Jesus’ body left the tomb.
What was the example of Historical Revisionism given from the beginning of all Creation?
Satan questioning Eve about, “Did God really say….”
What was the example given of Historical Conditioning?
The number 911.
What is Natural Myopia?
Nearsightedness (only focusing upon the present, not the future impact one will make).
What is the Pilgrim’s Providential View of History?
We are laying the stepping stones for future generations.
Who will be unable to lay stepping stones for the benefit of those who follow them in history?
Selfish individuals.
What is the post-modernists view of the past?
Everyone has their own past, there isn’t one true history that applies to all and therefore there isn’t a meta-narrative.
According to the Truth Project, what you believe in the present is determined by what four components of your past?
- Your education.
- Through experiences.
- Formal training.
- What you observed.
According to 2 Corinthians 10:5, we are to take _____ every thought and make it _____ to Christ.
Captive, obedient.
What are Memorial Stones and what is their purpose?
Items that remind people of what they have gone through.
What is the lesson about History taught to us in Judges 2:10?
It only took one generation to forget the provisions of God.
Who said that we are receivers of tradition and that life does not begin or end with you?
Dalrymple.
This individual also stated that without history there isn’t any _____ or _____ to the present.
Context, meaning.
Who said that without history there is no sense of identity or wisdom of why and how we move forward?
RC Sproul.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
The first written framework of government established in what is now the United States, and it cannot be understood without recognizing their faith in God.
How many years after the following events or individual’s life were the oldest manuscripts of the following ancient works published?
- Homer’s Iliad:
- Julius Caesar’s Gallic Wars:
- Pliny’s History:
- Thucydides’ and Herodotus’ History:
- The New Testament:
- 500 years.
- 1,000 years.
- 750 years.
- 1,300 years.
- 25 years.
According to the Truth Project, the basis for the three branches of government comes from Isaiah 33 - what were the three descriptions and the branches described in Isaiah 33?
- Lawgiver: Legislative (House and Senate) Branch
- Judge: Judicial Branch
- King: Executive Branch
Who stated that “because men are not angels, we need rule of law”?
James Madison
Who stated that “religion and morality are indispensable for human freedom”?
George Washington
What two actions were considered essential to education in early America?
Biblical doctrine and prayer.
What were the two best-selling books in early America used to accomplish the essential actions of education?
The Bible and The New England Primer.
What evidence is there that the earliest universities in America promoted the importance of Christianity in education?
Mottos.
What examples in Washington, DC were given to illustrate the history of Christianity in America?
Murals, inscriptions, and statues.
Who made the observation in early America, that liberty and virtue were connected in the relationship between church and state?
Alexis de Tocqueville
Who stated “only a virtuous nation can be free”?
Benjamin Franklin
Who stated that religion is the only solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religion and the duties of man towards God?
Gouverneur Morris
Who stated that “without virtue there can be no liberty”?
Benjamin Rush
Who stated that “our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other”?
John Adams
Who stated that “the great pillars of government and social life are virtue, morality, and religion”?
Patrick Henry
Who stated that “religion and good morals are the only solid foundations of public liberty and happiness”?
Samuel Adams
The founders of the Constitution (_____) established the separation of church and state in order to?
Protect the citizens from the government establishing an official religion and protect the government from having a religion imposed on it.
The founders believed that individual Christians in the US performed their roles in order to _____ society, rather than to _____ upon society.
Serve, impose God’s will.
In 1869, Charles Elliot became the new president at Harvard and installed Christopher Columbus Langdell as the new head of Harvard law school - what method of law did he replace?
Blackstone.
What method did Langdell replace it with?
Case Study Method.
What is legal positivism?
The belief that the foundations of all law is determined by the state.
What is sociological jurisprudence?
The belief that the law must change as the culture changes.
What US Supreme Court justice promoted sociological jurisprudence?
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Western Civilization is a combination of what four contributing cultural influences?
Christianity, Judaism, Roman law, and Greek culture.
Explain why Christians have a unique understand of sovereignty.
Sovereignty is freedom from external control. In order to be free from sin we are required to give up our freedom to choose selfishness and submit to a higher authority.
To impact the culture, we are to develop strong Christian _____, which will become a _____ that impacts the culture.
Habits, lifestyle.
