Finals: Semester 2 Flashcards
(44 cards)
In Christianity, God is not a static thing but what?
A dynamic, pulsating activity, a life, almost a kind of drama.
(Mere Christianity, pp. 175)
The whole dance, or drama, or pattern of this three-personal life is to be played out in what?
Each one of us.
(Mere Christianity, pp. 176)
He will make the feeblest and filthiest of us into a what?
A god or goddess
(Mere Christianity, pp. 206)
If there is a God, you are, in a sense, what?
Alone with Him.
(Mere Christianity, pp. 217)
The very voices and faces of the new men are different from ours in what ways?
They are stronger, quieter, happier, more radiant.
(Mere Christianity)
It is not a change from brainy men into brainier men, it is a change that goes off in a totally different what?
Direction. A change from being creatures of God to being sons of God.
(Mere Christianity)
It is when I turn to Christ that I first begin to have a real what?
Personality
(Mere Christianity, pp 226)
Hitchens is nothing if not a what?
Anti-totalitarian.
(Is Christianity Good for the World? pp. 8)
The issue of what is really central to the debate about the existence of God?
Thanksgiving
(Is Christianity Good for the World? pp. 17-18)
Wilson wants the reader to keep what triad in mind?
Truth, goodness and beauty
(Is Christianity Good for the World? pp. 19)
Wilson would rather have his God and the problem of evil than what?
Your no God and “Evil? No problem!””
(Is Christianity Good For The World? pp. 55)
Given Hitchens’ premises, he will have to come up with a different reason for what?
Rejecting Christ
(Is Christianity Good for the World? pp. 58)
People delude themselves when they say they will not accept anything without proof or demonstration because what?
They do not prove their foundational principles in the way they think they do.
(Against All Opposition pp. 24)
It is impossible to think without what?
Presuppositions.
(Against All Opposition pp. 26)
If there is no assumed starting point for a demonstration, then what?
Then a demonstration can’t get started. And if it can’t get started, it can’t get finished.
(Against All Opposition pp. 28)
What they (unbelievers) object to, finally, is what?
The kind of evidence to which we appeal as Christians: believing something based on God’s personal authority
(Against All Opposition pp. 32)
In the nature of the case, God’s Word must be what?
Self-validating
(Against All Opposition pp. 38)
The way in which you see the facts is determined by what?
Your underlying presuppositions
(Against All Opposition, pp 53)
You must learn to bring every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ in order to do what?
Develop an effective Christian worldview that can refute all comers
(Against All Opposition, pp 82)
No one is what?
Neutral
(Against All Opposition, pp. 87)
What we learn from experience depends on what?
The kind of philosophy we bring to experience
(Miracles pp. 2)
Those who assume that miracles cannot happen are merely doing what?
Wasting their time by looking into the texts
(Miracles pp. 4)
“Nature” means what?
Nature means what happens ‘of itself’ or ‘of its own accord’
(Miracles pp. 7)
The Supernaturalist thinks that things fall into what two classes?
Creature and Creator
(Miracles pp. 9)
