Chapter 1 - Searching For God/ Nature And Attributes Of God

Question 1

Why is the desire of God written on the human heart?

Answer 1

Man is created by God and for God

Question 2

What did God give us an unquenchable hunger for?

Answer 2

Happiness

Question 3

Why did God give us a restless heart?

Answer 3

To help us find him

Question 4

Religions that believe there is only one God

Answer 4

Monotheistic

Question 5

Three examples of monotheistic religions

Answer 5

Christianity
Judaism
Islam

Question 6

Sincerely reciting the Muslim profession of faith

Answer 6

Shahadah

Question 7

Performing ritual prayers in the proper way (facing Mecca) five times a day

Answer 7

Salat

Question 8

Paying of alms or charity tax to benefit the poor and needy Muslims

Answer 8

Zakat

Question 9

Fasting during the months of Ramadan

Answer 9

Sawm

Question 10

Pilgrimage to Mecca at least once in a lifetime

Answer 10

Hajj

Question 11

What three major Christian doctrines does Islam deny?

Answer 11

The Trinity
The Incarnation
The Resurrection

Question 12

What are the six crucial and distinctive concepts that stand out in Judaism?

Answer 12

Monotheism Redemption
Creation Sin
Law Faith

Question 13

What does the Jewish faith believe God is?

Answer 13

A person
A will
Not a mere force or being

Question 14

Religions that believe in the existence of many gods and goddesses

Answer 14

Polytheistic religions

Question 15

Polytheistic | Piety | Moderation and temperance
Objective and absolute truth is discoverable, not created
Believe in transcendence, supernaturals, and mysteries
Has a specific style of worship

Answer 15

Old Paganism

Question 16

Believes that nature is God
Rejects moderation and temperance
Rejects supernaturals and do not have a specific type of worship

Answer 16

New Paganism

Question 17

An indifference to religion and a belief that religion should be excluded from civil affairs and public education

Answer 17

Secularism

Question 18

Denies the existence of God

Answer 18

Atheism

Question 19

The belief that God’s existence cannot be known

Answer 19

Agnosticism

Question 20

The way God communicates knowledge of himself to humankind
A self-communication realized by his actions and words over time
Most fully by God’s sending of his divine Son, Jesus Christ

Answer 20

Divine Revelation

Question 21

Who pointed out the five proofs?

Answer 21

St. Thomas Aquinas

Question 22

List the five proofs of God’s existence

Answer 22

Unmoved mover
First cause 
Everything comes from something
Supreme model
Grand designer

Question 23

List the four cosmological arguments

Answer 23

Motion
Causation
Contingency
Degrees

Question 24

The world is in motion

For the world to move there must have been a FIRST MOVER

Answer 24

Unmoved mover

Question 25

Explain first cause

Answer 25

Nothing can cause itself

Question 26

Explain how everything comes from something

Answer 26

“Nothing” cannot create “something”

Question 27

Explain the supreme model

Answer 27

The state of perfection created by God

Question 28

God put laws in human nature making it a well-ordered universe The world contains beauty, symmetry, order, and power

Answer 28

Grand designer

Question 29

The desire to act

Answer 29

Potency

Question 30

Give some examples of the relationship between potency and act

Answer 30

Learning a new language Reading a book in order to learn how to juggle Lifting weights in a weight room

Question 31

God must exist in all things Creation cannot be set over God He actively communicates and activates being into and in all things Rejected by Deism and Pantheism

Answer 31

Immanent

Question 32

God is not part of the universe Rejects Pantheism God is other than His creation Outside of time and space

Answer 32

Transcendent

Question 33

A being that has always existed and always will exist | Can’t not exist

Answer 33

Necessary beings

Question 34

Any being that could not have existed | Includes human beings

Answer 34

Contingent being

Question 35

This means that God is transcendent or outside of time and space

Answer 35

Pure Act of Being

Question 36

What a thing is The property or set of properties that make an entity or subastance what is fundamental is, and which it has by necessity and without which it loses its identity

Answer 36

Essence

Question 37

The act of being

Answer 37

Esse

Question 38

List the attributes of substance

Answer 38

Durable Separable Identical

Question 39

Persists over time May come into existence or cease to exist May be uncreated or indestructible but it has an extended existence over time

Answer 39

Durable

Question 40

Existence is not dependent on other things Exists independently Can be separated from other things that exist

Answer 40

Separable

Question 41

Member of a certain kind (which endures over time or separates it from other things)

Answer 41

Identical

Question 42

List the attributes of essence

Answer 42

Immutable Indivisible Necessary Infinite

Question 43

Cannot be changed | Ex. Humans are rational animals with a soul

Answer 43

Immutability

Question 44

Essence ceases to be what it is when it is broken up into its constituents (ingredients/elements)

Answer 44

Indivisiblity

Question 45

Property or properties that make an entity or substance what it fundamentally is

Answer 45

Necessity

Question 46

What factors make God infinite?

Answer 46

Without limitations | Ex. Time, space, age,intelligence, energy

Question 47

What factors make God spiritual?

Answer 47

Not a material being Not subject to change Is the limitless fullness of being

Question 48

False teaching The world and God cannot be co-dependent Rejects that God is the Creator and the world depends on Him for its total being Rejects the transcendence and immanence of God

Answer 48

Pantheism

Question 49

Name a form of moral evil

Answer 49

Sin

Question 50

Name a form of physical evil

Answer 50

Suffering

Question 51

The sin of disobedience committed by Adam and Eve that resulted in their loss of holiness and justice Describes the fallen state of human nature into which all generations of people are born

Answer 51

Original sin

Question 52

The story of God’s saving action/journey in human history to save mankind

Answer 52

Salvation history

Question 53

A binding and solemn agreement among between God and human beings, holding each to a particular course of action The means by which God establishes relationships; indissoluble

Answer 53

Covenant

Question 54

What did the Flood a divine punishment for?

Answer 54

Prideful ambition

Question 55

What was God’s promise in his covenant with Noah?

Answer 55

He promises to never again destroy the earth with a flood

Question 56

What promise did God make Abraham?

Answer 56

Promised to be his God and the God of his descendants for all time

Question 57

The heritage of faith handed down in the Church from the time of the Apostles, from which the Magisterium draws all that it proposes for belief as being divinely revealed

Answer 57

Deposit of Faith

Question 58

What is contained in the single deposit of faith?

Answer 58

Sacred Scripture | Sacred Tradition

Question 59

The speech of God as it is put down in writing under the breath of the Holy Spirit Records the events of Salvation History and the covenants God made with humanity

Answer 59

Sacred Scripture

Question 60

The living transmission from one generation to the next of the Church’s gospel message

Answer 60

Sacred Tradition

Question 61

The official teaching authority of the church | The Lord bestowed the right and the power to teach in his name on Peter and the Apostles and their successors

Answer 61

Magesterium

Question 62

The central truth of Revelation that Catholics are obliged to believe

Answer 62

Dogma

Question 63

God uses this name to reveal himself to Moses on Mount Sinai Means “I Am Who Am”

Answer 63

YHWH