Creed #3 Flashcards
01) God is three substances in one person
01) God is three substances in one person
False : The correct answer is false. God is three persons in one substance. Since there is only one God, there is only one substance. A substance is what something truly is. But in the One True God there are three Divine Persons. The question asked here is the opposite of reality.
The word that describes the Son’s eternal origin is
Begotten - The correct answer is “begotten”. The Creed states in part: “I believe in one God, the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of all things visible and invisible; and in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, and born of the Father before all ages; God of God, light of light, true God of true God; begotten, not made, consubstantial with the Father, by whom all things were made…” Fr. John Hardon explains: “The term “eternally begotten” means that Jesus Christ is the Son of God the Father. Christ, as God, proceeds from the First Person of the Holy Trinity. God is a society Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. The Son proceeds from the Father, and the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son. Unlike all other generation, the Second Person never began. He always existed. The Second Person is co-eternal with the Father. The First Person of the Holy Trinity always existed. The Second Person of the Holy Trinity always existed. God is the Being who cannot not exist. Consequently, the Second Person always existed. By His very nature, therefore, God is a social being. The term ‘begotten not made’ means that the Second Person does not proceed from the First Person by creation. When a human being is conceived, the body comes from the father and the mother; the soul is created immediately from nothing by God. The Second Person of Trinity was not created by God the Father. In theology, we reserve the verb “made” for what is created. God the Son was not created by the Father. The Father is not the cause of the Son.”
The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are all fully God
True - he correct answer is true. The Athanasian Creed states in part: “For there is one Person of the Father; another of the Son; and another of the Holy Ghost. But the Godhead of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, is all one; the Glory equal, the Majesty coeternal. Such as the Father is; such is the Son; and such is the Holy Ghost. The Father uncreated; the Son uncreated; and the Holy Ghost uncreated. The Father unlimited; the Son unlimited; and the Holy Ghost unlimited. The Father eternal; the Son eternal; and the Holy Ghost eternal. And yet they are not three eternals; but one eternal. As also there are not three uncreated; nor three infinites, but one uncreated; and one infinite. So likewise the Father is Almighty; the Son Almighty; and the Holy Ghost Almighty. And yet they are not three Almighties; but one Almighty. So the Father is God; the Son is God; and the Holy Ghost is God. And yet they are not three Gods; but one God.”
Heresy is an obstinate post-baptismal denial of a divinely revealed truth necessary for salvation, or an obstinate doubt concerning same
True - The correct answer is true. Catechism of the Catholic Church #2089: “Heresy is the obstinate post-baptismal denial of some truth which must be believed with divine and catholic faith, or it is likewise an obstinate doubt concerning the same; apostasy is the total repudiation of the Christian faith; schism is the refusal of submission to the Roman Pontiff or of communion with the members of the Church subject to him.’”
05) The Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son
True - correct answer is true. Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church #47: “The Holy Spirit is the third Person of the Most Blessed Trinity. He is God, one and equal with the Father and the Son. He ‘proceeds from the Father’ (John 15:26) who is the principle without a principle and the origin of all Trinitarian life. He proceeds also from the Son (Filioque) by the eternal Gift which the Father makes of him to the Son. Sent by the Father and the Incarnate Son, the Holy Spirit guides the Church to know all truth.” The filioque clause, by which we profess the Holy Ghost proceeds from the Son, in addition to the Father, was added after the original profession written at the Council of Nicea. This is one of the reasons why Orthodox Churches splittered from the Catholic Church in the Great Schism of 1054 AD.
W hich of these heresies says that God is one person and one substance:
The correct answer is “Sabellianism/Modalism”. Encyclopaedia Britannica summarizes: “Sabellius evidently taught that the Godhead is a monad, expressing itself in three operations: as Father, in creation; as Son, in redemption; and as Holy Spirit, in sanctification.” The heresy of Sabellianism/Modalism thus taught that there was only one divine person who merely expressed Himself differently. Yet we know tht God has revealed Himself to be One God in three, distinct divine persons.
The sayings that the Holy Spirit “proceeds from the Father,” “proceeds from the Father through the Son,” and “proceeds from the Father and the Son” contradict one another.
False - The correct answer is false. Catechism of the Catholic Church #246: “The Latin tradition of the Creed confesses that the Spirit ‘proceeds from the Father and the Son (filioque)’. the Council of Florence in 1438 explains: ‘The Holy Spirit is eternally from Father and Son; He has His nature and subsistence at once (simul) from the Father and the Son. He proceeds eternally from both as from one principle and through one spiration. And, since the Father has through generation given to the only-begotten Son everything that belongs to the Father, except being Father, the Son has also eternally from the Father, from whom He is eternally born, that the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Son.”
08) The word filioque refers to the Holy Ghost proceeding from the Father.
False - : The correct answer is false. The Father does not proceed from anyone, neither was He begotten by anyone. The Father ‘begot’ the Son, or generated the Son, and the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son. The Filioque refers to the Holy Ghost proceeding from the Father and the Son. Filioque menas “and the Son.” The Father is unbegotten and does not proceed, the Son was begotten by the Father, and the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son.
Each of the Divine Persons always existed without beginning in time.
The correct answer is true. Each of the persons in the Most Holy Trinity are fully God, and they all three have always existed. There was never a time that the Father existed without the Son, or that the Father and Son existed without the Holy Spirit, and each of them are fully God. It is not as though they each share a part of the divine substance; in truth all three of them have the fullness of the divine substance. At the same time, however, they are different from one another.
) The Athanasian Creed, which is a very early creed in the Church, contains the filioque.
True - The correct answer is true. The Athanasian Creed, professes: “[W]e venerate one God in the Trinity, and the Trinity in oneness. . . . The Father was not made nor created nor begotten by anyone. The Son is from the Father alone, not made nor created, but begotten. The Holy Spirit is from the Father and the Son, not made nor created nor begotten, but proceeding”
