Man In Search Of God

Question 1

What are the challenges in knowing God?

Answer 1

• Man’s limited capacity to know, comprehend and understand.
• God is not self-evident

Question 2

As humans, what do we need to know God?

Answer 2

Proof, Evidences, and Facts

Question 3

Why can we know God with certainty from the created world?

Answer 3

Because of our human reason (lumen rationis)

Question 4

What is something we own that is capable to coming of knowledge of the existence of a personal God and enter into an intimate personal, loving and conscious relationship/ communion with God.

Answer 4

Man’s Faculties (intellect and will)

Question 5

What is the thing that humans possess that makes the them capable of coming to a knowledge of the existence of a personal God and enter into an intimate personal, loving and conscious relationship/ communion with God?

Answer 5

Man’s Faculties (intellect and will)

Question 6

Ipsum Esse Subsistens

Answer 6

Subsistent being itself

Question 7

knowing by cause

Answer 7

A priori

Question 8

Knowing by effect

Answer 8

A posteriori

Question 9

In the case of god what do we use?

Answer 9

A posteriori (knowing by effect)

Question 10

What is the nature of man?

Answer 10

Man is a religious being capable of entering into communion with God.

Question 11

What argument announced to believed and think of the highest being to exists.

Answer 11

Ontological Argument (Anself of Canterbury)

Question 12

Whatever is in motion is put in motion by another.

Answer 12

Proof of motion

Question 13

There is no case known in which a thing is the efficient cause of itself.

Answer 13

Proof of Efficient Causes

Question 14

If everything is possible not to be, then at one point, there could have been nothing in existence.

Answer 14

Proof of Contingency and Necessity

Question 15

Diverse subjects participate in different degrees as they resemble in different ways which is the maximum.

Answer 15

Proof gradation of being