Christainity Exam

How is Christian theology defined?

A serious reflection on what the church believes; an orderly articulation of the christian faith. From the greek theos (God) and logos (word, doctrine, teaching) it is the teaching concerning God or the study of God.

what is general revelation?

Knowing God through creation. It includes creation and human nature.

What is special revelation?

knowing God through scripture and through Jesus

Who is the GOAT of Gods revelation?

Jesus

What are the four sources of theology?

Bible, Tradition, Reason, and Experience

What does it mean to say that theology is never done in a vacuum?

All theology is contextual. The theological task has its context (place which one reflects), tools (the resources used in theological reflection), and methodology (the plan/ approach followed).

What is value of Thomas Aquinas’ Five proofs for the existence of God?

Using faith and reason to understand God’s effects on the world, Aquinas developed five natural proofs for God’s existence, based on what it is about nature that reveals God as its original causes. The first three are versions of cosmological argument (motion, efficient, causality, contingency), the fourth is the moral argument (grades of perfection), and the fifth is the teleological argument or argument for design (order in world).

What are Gods incommunicable attributes?

also called natural attributes, characteristics that describe His being or divine nature: eternal, self-sufficient, omnipresent, omniscient, omnipotent, perfect, and immutable

What are Gods communicable attributes?

Also called moral attributes; characterists that describe His person or moral nature: faithful, true, good, love, holy, righteous, and gracious/merciful/patient.

WHat does it mean to say God created the universe ex nihilo?

Ex nihilo means ‘creation out of nothing”; God created the heavens and the earth from nothing.

What are some main truths about the creation narrative in Genesis?

God created the heavens and the earth from nothing, and God created the world good. It is told from a perspective of faith; it is not a scientific explanation or meant to answer modern questions, but was intended to challenge ancient views of creation, in which different gods create through battle or by using other gods bodies and humans are made as slaves. In Genesis, on God creates all and humans are created for companionship.

How should we understand the two accounts of creations given in Genes 1:1-2:3 & 2:4-25?

As two complementary sccounts. The cosmological approach is God’s eye-view of the process of creation: a large-scale, linear and progressive project highlighting God’s transcendence, power, and dominion over the created order. The anthropological approach centers on humanity as God’s personal creation: a garden, food and a job, and the need for a companion, including the purpose of marriage.

How does the Bible present God as loving Creator?

God created the universe and placed human beings at its center, has constant care for his creation and humanity, and will bring the history of humanity to its intended purpose.

According to the Bible, what is the purpose of the creation of humanity?

Humans were created with a purpose: for communion with God and each other, and for stewardship. The Bible takes a positive, high view of humanity: the crown of creation God’s offspring, created good, given life by God’s breath, and designed purposely.

How does the Bible explain the concept of humanity being created in the image of God?

Genesis 1:26-27, humans are made in the likeness of God, with similar qualities and characteristics of personhood. This grounds human value and dignity; humans are spiritual being with spiritual faculties, created for relationship, a unifying characteristic of humanity, an God’s workmanship.

What is the biblical understanding of the Fall and its consequences?

Humans were created good, but sin derailed their original design and purpose. The disobedience of humanity brought sin and death: spiritual death, physical death, and eternal death.

What is the fundamental problem with humanity and its results?

sin:missing the mark, all the sinned and fall short of the glory of God. Results:loss of personal community with God, slavery to sin, thwarting God’s purpose, sickness and death, guilt and condemnation, and disruption of sommunity with others.

What were possible answers people wo heard Jesus teach had concerning his identity?

People who heard Jesus teach might have said he was a good teacher, a religious leader, a prophet, a martyr, a lunatic, or God. This comes from the “Who do you say I am?”

What does the phrase Christological heresies refer to?

these are false teachings about the person and work of Jesus, especially about how his humanity and divinity relate. They have existed since New testament times. Denying Jesus’s humanity was the forerunner of the heresies of the 2nd and 3rd centuries.

What were three early Christological heresies?

docetism:denied that Jesus was truly human, claiming he only seemed to suffer and die. Ebionism: taught that Jesus wasjust a man who became the SOn of God after his baptism. Arianism: taught that the Son is not truly God but a perfect creation of the father.

What does the word “preexistence” refer to in relation to Jesus?

Jesus is not a created being. He existed with the Fathers before the foundation of the foundation of the world.

What does the word “incarnation” refer to in relation to Jesus?

Jesus is the Word made flesh. He left his glory and became man in order to save humans.

Why is it significant for Christians to affirm Jesus’s virgin birth?

Jesus was conceived in the womb of the Virgin Mary by the Holy Spirit; Luke. It shows that he is both fully human, born of Mary, and fully divine, with God as his Father. This matters because the slides ask whether a Savior who was only human, or only divine, could save us.

What ere Jesus’s aims according to his teachings?

-announce the cominf of Gods kingdom

-Fulfill his inaugural proclamation: preaching the good news to the poor, proclaim freedom to prisoners and sight to the blind, release the oppressed, and proclaim the Year of the Lord’s favor

-Seek and save the lost -Suffer, die, and rise again

How did Jesus predict His passion/suffering?

through the Passion Predictions, Jesus told his disciples about his coming death. He went to Jerusalem knowing his destiny.

During what Jewish festival did Jesus eat his Last Supper with the disciples?

The Last Supper took place during the Jewish Passover Feast.

What do the elements of the Lord’s Supper (bread and wine) symbolize?

the bread symbolizes Jesus’s body, broken for us and kept in perpetual remembrance. The wine symbolizes his blood, which establishes a new covenant and brings forgiveness.

From what are humans saved through the sacrifice of Jesus?

God’s righteous judgement, the curse of sin, our sins, final redemption still awaits.

What does it mean that “substitution” took place on the cross?

It means Jesus took our place on the cross. Humanity was comdemned to death and enslaved to sin, and Jesus bore that penalty in our place.

How do Christians establish the historicity of Jesus’s resurrection?

The empty tomb: sildiers guarded the tomb, and the Jewish religious authorities could not disprove that it had been found empty.

Jesus’s appearance: over 500 people testified to seing him after his resurrection.