Chapter 1
True or False: If you are a Christian you do not have to believe that all other religions are simply wrong all through.
True. (page 35)
True or False: Real things are simple.
False. (page 40)
True or False: If a thing is free to be good, then it is also free to be bad.
True. (page 48)
What is repentance?
A description of what going back to Him is like. (page 57)
True or False: Believing things on authority only means believing them because you have been told them by someone you think trustworthy.
True. (page 62)
What is the first big division of humanity?
Dividing into the majority (those who believe in some kind of God or gods), and the minority (those who do not). (page 35)
What are two philosophies that C.S. Lewis calls boys philosophies?
Atheism and Christianity-and-water. (page 38-40)
What has free will made possible?
Evil. (page 48)
True or False: Theories about Christ’s death are Christianity and they are not explanations of how it works.
False. (page 54)
Who was the perfect surrender and humiliation undergone by?
Jesus and/or Christ. (page 60)
What is the worldview of Pantheism?
It thinks that God is beyond good and evil. (another part of the answer that could be counted: the universe almost is God, so that if it did not exist He would not exist either, and anything you find in the universe is a part of God.) (page 36-37)
What is the definition of Dualism?
The belief that there are two equal and independent powers at the back of everything, one of them good and the other bad, and that this universe is the battlefield in which they fight out an endless war. (page 42)
What did God design the human machine to run on?
Himself/ God. (page 50)
What is the central Christian belief?
That Christ’s death has somehow put us right with God and given us a fresh start. (page 54)
What is the physical organism through which Christ acts?
The whole mass of Christians. (page 64)
What is the very big question that Christian theology raises?
If a good God made the world, why has it gone wrong? (page 38)
What is religion according to Christian doctrine?
God’s statement to us of certain quite unalterable facts about His own nature. (page 41)
What is the fatal flaw that we have seen repeated in history that has led to everything going wrong?
The absence of God. (page 50)
Can a man accept what Christ has done without knowing how it works? Answer and give an explanation.
Yes, and he would not know how it works until he has accepted it. (page 55)
What are the three things that spread Christ-life to us?
Baptism, belief, and a mysterious action by which different Christians call by different names- Holy Communion, the Mass, the Lord’s Supper. (page 61)
What is Christianity described as?
A fighting religion. (page 37)
If goodness is itself (the definition of goodness being the state or action of being good), then what is badness?
Badness is spoiled goodness. (page 44)
DAILY DOUBLE
What are the three things that God has done to help us with our fatal flaw?
He left us a conscience, He sent the human race “good dreams”, and He selected one particular people and spent several centuries showing them what kind of God He was. (page 50)
How do we think?
God puts a little of His love into us and that is how we love one another. (page 57)
Why is the Christian in a different position from other people who are trying to be good?
Others hope, by being good, to please God if there is one. While the Christian thinks any good he does comes from the Christ-life inside him. (page 63)