Unit II Theology Proper

Question 0

Agnosticism

Answer 0

There is not enough information to know whether there is a God.

Question 1

Atheism

Answer 1

There is no God. Humanism falls under this category.

Question 2

Three Points of Humanism

Answer 2

1: Religious humanists regard the universe as self-existing and not created
2: Humanism believes that man is a part of nature and that he has emerged as a result of a continuous process
5: Humanism asserts that the nature of the universe depicted by modern science makes unacceptable any supernatural or cosmic guarantees of human values

Question 3

Monotheism

Answer 3

There is one God. Judaism, Christianity, and Islam fall under this category.

Question 4

Polytheism

Answer 4

There are many gods. Animism falls under this category.

Question 5

Animism

Answer 5

Everything that exists has spiritual existence.

Question 6

Pantheism

Answer 6

All is God; God is all.

Question 7

Cosmological Argument

Answer 7

Every effect needs a sufficient cause.

Question 8

Teleological Argument

Answer 8

Order and complexity point to intelligence and purpose.

Question 9

Anthropological Argument

Answer 9

Man’s universal belief in something greater than himself points to a higher order of being than man.

Question 10

Moral Argument

Answer 10

Man’s belief in right and wrong point to a universal moral law.

Question 11

Ontological Argument

Answer 11

Man’s concept of a greatest being is proof that such a being must exist.

Question 12

The argument for existence

Answer 12

If you start with God’s existence, these facts about man and the world he observes have plausible explanations.