Basics of Theology
True or False: No one can avoid doing Theology
True
True or False: The fool believes in his heart there is a God
False
True or False: The cosmological argument argues that the universe caused itself to exist out of necessity
False
True or False: The Ontological Argument was discovered by Anselm of Canterbury
True
True or False: We can fully understand God
False
What is the question that Theology seeks to answer?
Does God exist? If so, what is he like?
What cultures have access to the information nature displays about God?
All cultures
What is the Teleological Argument?
What is the historical Argument?
The Bible is a historically accurate book which also predicted things accurately and gives credence to the claim that it was authored by God
What are the two foundations on which Christian theism rests?
general and special revelation
What did we say you cannot use to determine if God exists (meaning it won't work if you try to use these)?
The five senses
What does Paul consider is the best evidence for God's existence?
The universe
What is the Transcendental Argument for God's existence?
People claim naturalism is true but this is insufficient to explain many things including numbers, reason, or logic. This gives more evidence to their pointing to a supernatural Creator.
What is Pascal's Wager or the Great Wager?
What are the two different categories of God's attributes and explain what they mean
Communicable - attributes we share more with God
Incommunicable - attributes we don't really share with God
What are the three basic options one can use to answer the question does God exist?
atheism, pantheism, and theism
Why does Paul say that people are without excuse in regards to their relationship with God?
Since God has revealed himself through nature we cannot say that we didn't know any better
What is the natural desire everyone has that points to there being a God?
eternal life
How can it be explained that there are so many religions in the world today?
Apart from special revelation people will twist God into a god of their own making
What does it mean that general revelation is a necessary but insufficient means of revelation?
Need general revelation for life but can only be saved through special revelation
Explain what the woman was seeking Cliff Knechtle to give and what was his response?
100% proof that what Christians believe is true and Cliff responded by saying no one lives on 100% proof
What are the three different types of reasoning and which one out of them did we choose to argue for God's existence and why?
Deductive, Inductive, Abductive because we can't prove 100% God exists but we can give proof beyond a reasonable doubt
Give two out of the three objections people tend to give for the moral argument for God's existence and explain how they can be explained
Herd instinct - then it would always win
Same as natural law - nature is descriptive law is prescriptive
So much evil no God - evil implies a moral standard
Explain how 1 Corinthians 13:12 is not demonstrating that we will have complete knowledge of God when we get to heaven
It is speaking about how there is somewhat of a veil clouding our view of God but when we get to heaven we will see God because now we can't
What is the answer we had to explain Immanuel Kant's conundrum of how can we know God?
We don't discover everything about God but rather God reveals himself to us