Ch 2+3 Test Part 1

Question 1

According to statistics, how much of the world’s population believes in a God.

Answer 1

90%

Question 2

Monotheistic

Answer 2

Belief in only one God

Question 3

What are the three monotheistic religions

Answer 3

Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

Question 4

Polytheistic

Answer 4

The belief in many Gods

Question 5

What is one Polytheistic religion

Answer 5

Hinduism

Question 6

Deism

Answer 6

The belief that Gods did create the universe, but that he takes no further interest in it

Question 7

Secular humanists

Answer 7

The world can operate without help from God; human person and human achievement is the center of everything

Question 8

Atheists

Answer 8

Don’t believe in any God. Claim that there is no God, supernatural beings, or heaven and hell.

Question 9

Agnostics

Answer 9

Believe that God’s existence cannot be proven or disproven.

Question 10

What is the first and most basic requirement for living in reality

Answer 10

To believe in God

Question 11

Divine revelation

Answer 11

A free gift of self-communication by which God makes known the mystery of his divine plan.

Question 12

What is the fundamental belief

Answer 12

It is the belief in God.

Question 13

God’s revelation took place in three historical steps. What are these three steps

Answer 13

1. He revealed himself to Israel by establishing his covenant with them.
2. God revealed himself by the incarnation
3. He blessed his people with the Holy Spirit.

Question 14

What are St. Thomas Aquinas’s 5 arguments of God’s existence

Answer 14

Argument from Motion, Argument from efficient cause, argument from necessary being, Argument from Gradation, and Argument from design

Question 15

Argument from motion

Answer 15

Whatever moves is moved by something. There must be a first move that sets everything into motion. God is the one who set everything into motion.

Question 16

Argument from efficient cause

Answer 16

Because nothing can cause itself, everything must have a cause. Without a first cause, there would be no others. The first cause is God.

Question 17

Argument from necessary being

Answer 17

Due to the fact That objects in the world come into existence and then pass out. It is possible for them to exist at any given time. Nothing can come from nothing. So something must exist at all times. This is God.

Question 18

Argument from gradation

Answer 18

There are different degrees of good. For this to be measured there must be a highest form of good. This is God

Question 19

Argument from design

Answer 19

All things have an order of some sort that lead to a particular goal. The universe cannot be a result of chance, so therefor design and purpose must be at work. This implies divine intelligence on the part of the designer. This designer is God.

Question 20

God is transcendent

Answer 20

The quality of God’s total uniqueness and infinite greatness compared to his creatures. He’s more then we could ever know or imagine.

Question 21

God is infinite.

Answer 21

He is unlimited(infinitely wise, righteous, merciful, etc…)

Question 22

God is omniscient

Answer 22

All knowing and all wise

Question 23

God is omnipotent

Answer 23

All powerful

Question 24

God is immanent

Answer 24

Refers to God’s being in the world, his closeness to, intimacy with us.

Question 25

True or False. God is present everywhere at the same time.

Answer 25

True.

Question 26

What does Yahweh mean

Answer 26

I am