The Nature of God
What makes Christianity stand out among all the religions in the world? Christians believe in
a. Many gods.
b. God is in everything.
c. One God.
d. One God in three Persons.
d. One God in three Persons.
When the Bible speaks of holy objects, people or place, it refers to things that have been - (pick 2 answers)
a. totally clean.
b. set apart.
c. made special by the touch of God upon them.
d. totally pure.
b & c.
How are we NOT like the heavenly Father?
a. God has thoughts, we have thoughts.
b. God is perfect, we are perfect.
c. God has affections, we have affections.
d. God has knowledge, we have knowledge.
b. God is perfect, we are perfect.
Christians have the ability to understand God completely.
a. True.
b. False.
b. False.
No human has the ability to understand God completely.
"Then God said, 'Let Us make man in image, according to Our likeness.'" - Genesis 1:26.
How does this describe the nature of God?
a. He is eternal.
b. He is infinite.
c. He is a triune spirit.
d. He is omnipresent.
c. He is a triune spirit.
When the Bible calls God's people "holy", it means that we share his divine majesty.
a. True.
b. False
b. False. We don't share his divine majesty. but we are called to mirror the moral character and actions of God. We are to imitate his goodness.
In what ways God is like a perfect father to us?
a. He loves us and lets us do whatever we wanted.
b. He delights in us because we can obey the commandments perfectly.
c. He protects us with his complete attention and nothing can happen to us without his permission.
c. He protects us with his complete attention and nothing can happen to us without his permission.
"The incomprehensibility of God" means -
a. We know nothing of God.
b. Our knowledge of God is partial and limited.
c. There will always be a mystery about God.
d. b & c.
d. b & c.
How God, as three persons in one being, works in salvation? God the Son came to earth to redeem ALL people from sin.
a. True.
b. False.
b. False. Only the people chosen by God.
"God is immutable" means -
a. God never changes.
b. God is perfect wisdom.
c. God is perfect truth.
d. All are correct.
d. All are correct.
What promise(s) does God give to his children?
a. Forgiveness of sins.
b. Peace to our mind and heart.
c. To teach us how to live the life he created for us to enjoy.
d. All of the above.
d. All of the above.
God fashioned humans in his ____ and likeness.
Image.
How God, as three persons in one being, works in salvation? God the Father CHOSE people to be his at their birth.
a. True
b. False
b. False. "For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight." Ephesians 1:4.
"God is sovereign" means - (choose the wrong answer)
a. God exercises most of the power, authority and control over the universe.
b. Everything happens according to his purpose.
c. Everything is under his control.
d. We can depend on God to fulfill all the promises that he makes to those who obey him.
a. God exercises most of the power, authority and control over the universe.
The way God communicates knowledge of himself to humankind, a self-communication realized by his actions and words over time, most fully by his sending us his divine Son, Jesus Christ - this is called?
Divine Revelation
What does it mean that God is eternal?
It means that he never had a ________.
Beginning.
How God, as three persons in one being, works in salvation? God the Holy Spirit makes holy these people who are chosen by God and teaches them his truths.
a. True.
b. False.
a. True.
"God is holy" means - (choose 2 correct answers)
a. God is higher and greatly superior to what we are.
b. God always acts in a righteous manner and never does what is wrong.
c. There is sometimes evil mixed in his goodness.
d. His glory transcends somethings but not everything.
a & b.
Define what is meant by God's omnipotence.
This is God’s supreme power and authority over all creation.
What does it mean that God is infinite?
It means that he has no _________.
Boundaries.