Quiz #3 Short Responses

How does the Father communicate divinity to the Son?

The Father generates, or “begets”, the Son through the use of the divine intellect to form a completely perfect idea of the Father, containing everything that the Father is including personhood

How do the Father and Son communicate divinity to the Holy Spirit?

The Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and Sons eternal use of the one divine will in an act of mutual, self emptying love that perfectly expresses and communicates everything that the Father and Son are, including personhood

What are the Three ways Christians believe human beings are images of God as Triune?

Social dimension, capacity to generate offspring, and authentic human love

According to Christianity, what two problems did the human race have after the Fall in terms of restoring what was lost, and how did the Incarnation solve those two problems?

1. The grace necessary for an immediate, supernatural friendship between the human race and God in something only God can cause, and thus only God can restore it

2. As a matter of justice, the human race is responsible for repairing the damage in this relationship. But an act of obedience of damaged human nature does not have the moral quality to offset an act of obedience by undamaged human nature

1. God the Son has the divine power necessary to restore lost supernatural life (grace)

2. God the Son unites becomes a member to the human race by uniting with a complete human nature to fulfill the demands of justice. The human nature taken by God the Son is undamaged and so is capable of performing an act of obedience to offset the disobedience of the first parents

What does Christianity teach about the way human nature has actually existed?

The first state is is undamaged with grace (the original state). The current state of human nature is damaged without grace, human nature has never existed without grace.

How do Christians explain the statements “God suffered, and “God died?”

The word “God” only means the divine person, the actions are only proper to human nature, so they must be talking about the incarnate versions of God. He knows what suffering is like allowing for sympathy