Unit On Revelation Test

Question 0

Christians call the Bible _______

Answer 0

Divine revelation; what God has revealed to us

Question 1

Revelation

Answer 1

What is revealed

Question 2

Jesuit teaching about discernment makes 2 assumptions:

Answer 2

1. God is immanent

2. God cares and is engaged in our lives

Question 3

Immanent

Answer 3

“Remaining within” (you)

Question 4

The daily or weekly examen encourages us to

Answer 4

Examine our own experiences

Question 5

Discernment

Answer 5

Separating and distinguishing your thoughts/actions/feelings/remarks so you can ask, “What is God telling me that I need to know?”

Question 6

Young PK

Answer 6

1. What he was like before: unhappy and afraid
   >Evidence: mother died, bullied at school, wets the bed
2. Eye-opening experience: PK’s nanny calls for the medicine man, Tibula Manzi. He performs a ritual in which PK has a vision that he is being charged by an elephant. He manages to stand up to the elephant in the vision.
3. What insight was revealed to the person? PK is brave and can face his fears.
4. How (if at all) did they change? He becomes braver
   >Evidence: defending himself by pushing over one of the Afrikaner boys who was tormenting him.

Question 7

Sergeant Bohrmann

Answer 7

1. What he was like before: Evil, racist
   >Evidence: He is disrespectful to the black people and made Keer Piet lick manure from his shoe.
2. Eye-opening experience: Catching Keer Piet during the concert
3. What insight was revealed to the person? “You are cowards” –the words of the song, translated to Bohrmann by Keer Piet
4. How (if at all) did they change? He did not change.
   >Evidence: After the insight was revealed, he beat Keer Piet to death and was later found dead and hanging from a tree, which might have been done by the prisoners who finally were able to get revenge

Question 8

Maria

Answer 8

1. What she was like before: racist because of her upbringing, afraid of black people
   >Evidence: When PK is talking to the two black men in the streets, she is afraid that they are going to hurt her.
2. Eye-opening experience: Miriam, a kind black woman, gives Maria a blanket when she visits Alexandria.
3. What insight was revealed to the person? Black people are just people, and they can be kind
4. How (if at all) did they change? Maria changed by no longer being racist and wanting to help the situation of the black people in South Africa
   >Evidence: She helps PK educate the black people in English, and she dies defending PK and his efforts to help them.

Question 9

Older PK

Answer 9

1. What he was like before: defeated, hopeless
   >Evidence: Maria is dead, he says her death “shattered him.” he has decided to go to Oxford.
2. Eye-opening experience: He sees children in Alexandria learning English.
3. What insight was revealed to the person? “It works.” His efforts have paid off.
4. How (if at all) did they change? He is uplifted and encouraged
   >Evidence: He decides to stay in Africa to continue to help the black people. He walks off into the sunset with his friend.

Question 10

Ruby Turpin (Mrs. Turpin)

Answer 10

1. What she was like before: judgmental, racist, has a very high opinion of herself and is quick to find fault in others
   >Evidence: uses of the words “white-trash,” “nigger,” etc. She decides her opinion on all the people in the doctor’s office before she even gets to know them.
2. Eye-opening experience: the ugly girl attacks her
3. What insight was revealed to the person? “You’re a warthog from hell.” Or, you’re not a good person.
4. How (if at all) did they change? Her judgmental attitude was not completely changed, but she did begin to recognize her own faults and the unimportance of social class in God’s eyes
   >Evidence: in the vision, the order of people going into heaven is: white trash, blacks, lunatics, and people like her. She isn’t the only one going into heaven, nor is she ahead of the white trash or blacks. But she still mentions that “her” people were the only ones singing on key and that the white trash were “clean for the first time in their life.”

Question 11

Mother Teresa

Answer 11

1. What she was like before: like most nuns, but more focused on helping everyone who needs help.
   >Evidence: in a convent, but she wants to treat the Hindu man who has been hurt by a Muslim, even through the other nuns tell her not to because the Muslims will come after them.
2. Eye-opening experience: Seeing a man dying in the streets as she rode the bus and returning too late: he has already died.
3. What insight was revealed to the person? There are people all around who are suffering and dying and nobody is helping them.
4. How (if at all) did they change? She began to focus on caring for the dying.
   >Evidence: she moves into a Hindu temple to make it a place for her to care for the people that have been rejected by hospitals

Question 12

Jehovah’s Witnesses

Answer 12

Founded by Charles Taze Russell. They go door-to-door preaching. They emphasize the book of Revelation: the end times

Question 13

7th-Day Adventists

Answer 13

Founded by Ellen White and others. Recognize the Saturday sabbath. “God redeems in habits.” True church recognizes the true Sabbath

Question 14

Mormon/Church of Latter-Day Saints

Answer 14

Started by Joseph Smith. They go on missions around age 18. The Book of Mormon is said to have been translated by Joseph Smith.