Chapter 2.5

Question 1

What is belief in more than one “god”?

Answer 1

polytheism

Question 2

What is absolute rule?

Answer 2

sovereignty

Question 3

What means that God is one in His essential being, but He exists in three Persons?

Answer 3

Trinity

Question 4

Is each Person of the Godhead fully God?

Answer 4

yes

Question 5

Where in the Bible is the Trinity quietly declared?

Answer 5

Old Testament

Question 6

Name three broad areas in the Old Testament where the Trinity is quietly declared.

Answer 6

(1) The plural name for God
(2) In the plural forms of the personal pronouns for Gpd
(3) In the Theophanies
(4) In the threefold of the Aaronic blessing
(5) In the “thrice hold” of Isaiah 6:3

Question 7

What is the plural name for God in the Old Testament?

Answer 7

Elohim

Question 8

What is the visible appearances of God which is usually in human form?

Answer 8

Theophanies

Question 9

Where in the Bible is the Trinity openly declared?

Answer 9

New Testament

Question 10

Name 3 areas in the New Testament where the Trinity is declared.

Answer 10

(1) At Christ’s baptism
(2) In the baptismal formula
(3) In the apostolic benediction
(4) In the teachings of Jesus
(5) In the fact that all three are called “God”

Question 11

How was the Trinity evident at Christ’s baptism?

Answer 11

The Father spoke, the Son was baptized, and the Holy Spirit descended like a dove

Question 12

Is God material?

Answer 12

no; He is a Spirit

Question 13

What ascribes to God’s human features to help us as simple human beings?

Answer 13

anthropomorphisms

Question 14

Is God a Spirit and a Person?

Answer 14

yes

Question 15

What are visible appearances of God, usually is his human form?

Answer 15

theophanies

Question 16

What word is the best way to describe the divine nature of God and that God is not material?

Answer 16

Spirit

Question 17

What name of God in the Old Testament means “the Self-Existent One” and is the covenant name of God?

Answer 17

Jehovah

Question 18

What name of God in the Old Testament means “My Lord; My Master?

Answer 18

Adonai

Question 19

What name of God in the Old Testament means “the Strong One”; “the One to be Feared”?

Answer 19

Elohim

Question 20

What name of God in the Old Testament means “the All-Sufficient One”?

Answer 20

El Shaddai

Question 21

What name of God in the Old Testament means “the Most High God”?

Answer 21

El Elyon

Question 22

What name of God is the New Testament version of “Elohim”?

Answer 22

Theos

Question 23

What name of God is the New Testament version of “Adonai”?

Answer 23

Kurios

Question 24

What name of God is the New Testament has no Old Testament equivalent but means “Father”?

Answer 24

Pater

Question 25

What name of God means "God with us"?

Answer 25

Immanuel

Question 26

What is the act of God whereby He brought all things into existence?

Answer 26

Creation

Question 27

What type of creation is creation without the use of preexisting materials?

Answer 27

immediate creation

Question 28

Was the Trinity present at Creation?

Answer 28

yes

Question 29

How can we tell that the Trinity was present at Creation?

Answer 29

Elohim is used

Question 30

What is the Latin phrase that is used to signify this immediate creation "out of nothing"?

Answer 30

ex nihilo

Question 31

What is the act of God in which He does not originate things, but simply shapes and transforms material that is already in existence?

Answer 31

mediate creation

Question 32

As Christians, what do we belive about the origin of the universe?

Answer 32

that there is a God and that God created as He says in His word

Question 33

What do evolutionists believe about God and the universe?

Answer 33

that there is no God, or that if there is a God, He did not create the heavens and the earth as He revealed in the first two chapters of Genesis

Question 34

Is Creation accepted by faith?

Answer 34

yes

Question 35

Is evolution accepted by faith?

Answer 35

yes

Question 36

Which of the two origins of the universe (Creation or evolution) is based on a reasonable faith?

Answer 36

Creation

Question 37

Who is the only one who has observed the creation?

Answer 37

God

Question 38

Has anyone ever seen evolution in progress?

Answer 38

no

Question 39

In either origin of the universe repeatable?

Answer 39

no

Question 40

What does design demand?

Answer 40

a Designer

Question 41

If we cannot accept Moses' account of Creation what will we not be able to accept?

Answer 41

the words of Christ

Question 42

If we cannot trust the Biblical accounts of Creation, what will we not be able to accept?

Answer 42

the Biblical accounts of salvation by faith, eternal life, heaven, and hell

Question 43

What did God create on the first day of Creation?

Answer 43

Light and darkness

Question 44

To man's knowledge, what is the only absence of light?

Answer 44

darkness

Question 45

Why did God probably create darkness?

Answer 45

for man's benefit

Question 46

What did God create on the second day of Creation?

Answer 46

the atmosphere was divided from teh waters beneath

Question 47

What comes from a verb meaning, "to beat out, to spread out"?

Answer 47

firmament

Question 48

What did God create on the third day of Creation?

Answer 48

He caused dry land to appear from the water and created plant life

Question 49

What did God call the dry land that appeared from the water?

Answer 49

earth

Question 50

What did God create on the fourth day of Creation?

Answer 50

the sun, moon, and stars

Question 51

When did God make it possible for man to calculate time?

Answer 51

on the fourth day of creation

Question 52

What should we be reminded of every time the sun rises or the seasons change?

Answer 52

that God keeps His promises

Question 53

What did God create on the fifth day of Creation?

Answer 53

birds and marine life

Question 54

What animal that was created can be translated as "great sea monster" or the modern day dinosaur?

Answer 54

whale

Question 55

What would the dragons in Scripture probably be called today?

Answer 55

dinosaurs

Question 56

What are the two animals in the book of Job that were probably dinosaurs?

Answer 56

the behemoth and the levithan

Question 57

Which of the two animals in the book of Job may have been a reptile similar to a Brontosaurus?

Answer 57

behemoth

Question 58

Which of the two animals in the book of Job was a fire-breathing aqautic animal?

Answer 58

leviathan

Question 59

What is the most popular theory for why dinosaurs went extinct?

Answer 59

some catastrophe

Question 60

What is the phrase that the Bible uses to indicate that it is impossible for one kind of plant to produce a different kind of plant or animal?

Answer 60

"after their kind"

Question 61

Who was the Swedish naturalist who devised a simple, practical, method of classification for use by scientists?

Answer 61

Carolus Linnaeus

Question 62

What mean a group of similar organisms that are all descended from a single group of similar organisms that are all descended from a single group of originally created animals?

Answer 62

the Biblical kind

Question 63

What was allegedly a horse whose descendants had once less toe than their ancestor?

Answer 63

Euhippus

Question 64

What are sudden changes in the DNA code of the genes which one passed on to an organism's offspring?

Answer 64

mutations

Question 65

What did God create on the sixth day?

Answer 65

man

Question 66

In whose image did God create man?

Answer 66

His own image

Question 67

What is the absolute right that God has to run the universe as He wants because He created it for His own purposes and glory?

Answer 67

sovereignty

Question 68

What is sovereignty a matter of?

Answer 68

ownership

Question 69

Name five areas that God's sovereignty extends over.

Answer 69

- God controls the universe - God controls the plant and animal creation - God controls all nations - God controls the length of a man's life - God controls all things for His glory

Question 70

What can God in His sovereignty impose upon Himself?

Answer 70

limitations

Question 71

What are the three limitations that God has placed upon Himself?

Answer 71

the existence of sin, the free will of man, and the privilege of prayer

Question 72

If God did not determine sin's existence, what did He do instead?

Answer 72

he allowed it in the universe

Question 73

What are the qualities of persohood?

Answer 73

will, emotion, intellect

Question 74

What did God make on the sixth day of Creation?

Answer 74

land animals and man

Question 75

What are five areas of the scope of God's sovereignty?

Answer 75

- Sometimes God decrees - Sometimes God conceals - Sometimes God recommends - Sometimes God desires - Sometimes God permits - Sometimes God considers