God's Existence
The view that God exists as one God in three persons.
What is Trinitarianism?
The first alternative hypothesis ever proposed to explain away Jesus' reported resurrection from the dead.
What is the stolen body (conspiracy) theory?
The type of textual error made by the accidental addition or omission of a letter or word in the manuscript copying process.
What is a copyist error?
The same title given to Jesus by both Christians and Muslims, but with a different meaning attributed to it in each respective religion.
What is "Messiah"?
The English translation of the Latin phrase Ratio Christi.
What is "Reason of Christ"?
The special phenomenon that is possible by virtue of God's existence.
What is a miracle?
An early Christian creed preserved in the Bible highlighting Jesus' death for our sins, his burial, his resurrection, and hundreds of eyewitnesses to the resurrected Christ.
What is 1 Corinthians 15:3-8?
The literary device used to highlight certain people or events in a story by not mentioning others.
What is literary spotlighting?
The view held by groups like the Jehovah's Witnesses that Jesus is not God but is a separate being specially created by God.
What is Arianism?
Cody's favorite chapter in the entire Bible.
What is 1 Corinthians 15?
The two lines of evidence the apostle Paul gives for God's existence in Romans 1-2.
What are the testimony of creation and the witness of the conscience?
The theory that Jesus did not actually die on the cross but survived his crucifixion and then appeared to his disciples.
What is the swoon theory?
The criterion of historicity which says that if a reported saying or event would have been embarrassing to the memory of Jesus, the apostles, or the early Christians, then it is more likely to be authentic.
What is the criterion of embarrassment?
The three figures in the Qur'an's misconception of the Trinity.
Who are Allah, Jesus, and Mary?
The cultic Bible translation that has infiltrated Ratio Christi at Crandall University.
What is the Tree of Life Version?
A popular moral argument against God's existence that actually works as an argument for God's existence.
What is the problem of evil?
The apologetics approach that uses a handful of historical facts surrounding Jesus' reported resurrection that even skeptical scholars accept as facts of history.
What is the Minimal Facts Approach?
The logical fallacy committed in attempting to attribute the origins of the Gospel accounts to pagan parallels.
What is the genetic fallacy?
The view that God is not one God in three persons but one God manifesting himself in three different ways.
What is Modalism?
The political party that has attempted to infiltrate Ratio Christi at Crandall University.
What is the Crandall Communist Party?
The name of the interpretive approach that understands God's permitting or prohibiting certain things at different times in biblical history as part of his progressive revelation of himself and moral/ethical ideals.
What is redemptive-movement hermeneutics?
The five Minimal Facts used to defend the historicity of Jesus' resurrection from the dead.
What are Jesus' death by crucifixion, the belief of the disciples, the conversion of James, the conversion of Paul, and the empty tomb.
The most likely place of origin for the magi of Matthew's infancy narrative.
What is Nabataea?
The five main views on the destiny of the unevangelized.
What are strong exclusivism, moderate exclusivism, inclusivism, post-mortem evangelism, and universalism.
The most easily converted person in the RC Apologetics Club.
Who is Samuel Chute?