Unit 3

Question 0

Anthropomorphic Language

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language that speaks of God in human terms (for example, “the arm of God”)

Question 1

Agnostic

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a person who holds that the existence of God, and the essential nature of things are unknown and unknowable, or that human knowledge is limited to experience

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Aseity

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the attribute of God’s independence or sel-existence. God is not dependent on anything else for existence and has eternally existed

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Atheism

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system of belief that asserts that there is no God. In addition, it affirms that the only form of existence is the material universe and that the universe is merely the product of chance or fate

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Communicable Attributes

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attributes of God that He shares with us. (Example-knowledge, mercy, justice)

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Deism

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the view that God is distant and created the universe, but left it to run on its own course

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Immutability

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refers to God’s unchangeable nature

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Incommunicable Attributes

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aspects of God’s character that God does not share with us (Examples-God’s eternity, God’s immutability, God’s omnipresence)

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Omnipotence

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the doctrine that God is able to do all his holly will; all-powerful

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Omnipresence

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the doctrine that God does not have size or spatial dimensions and is present at every point of space with his whole being, yet God acts differently in different places

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Omniscience

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the doctrine that God fully knows himself and all things actual and possible in one simple and eternal act

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Pantheism

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

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Sovereignty

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God’s exercise of power over His Creation

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Theopany

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an “appearance of God” in which he takes on a visible form to show himself to people