We are Body and Soul/ Love One Another/ Glorify God
The Fall of Man / Sin
100
What type of creatures are we?
Spiritual and Biological
100
What quality do humans possess that animals do not?
Self- awareness
100
What is the proper attitude and stance before God?
Humility and Worship
100
What is the eternal heart of existence?
Love
100
Who is the source of the human race?
Adam and Eve
200
How do animal rights activists diminish humans?
By denying our unique spiritual dimension.
200
What did God endow human beings with?
With reason analogous to the reason of their Creator.
200
What makes us different and unique among God’s creatures?
Man is created in the image of God
200
Why does God give us existence?
As an expression of his infinite, overflowing love towards us.
200
What was the relationship that Adam and Eve had with God based on?
An implied covenant
300
What are the capacities or qualities of God which the scriptures indicate?
Reflective self-awareness, rationality, and relationally.
300
What did God appeal to his people?
To repent of their sins and return to him.
300
What quality do some animals and humans share?
Self- recognition
300
What does physical death lead to for believers?
An intermediate state in which we enjoy and are fully aware of Christ's presence.
300
What was the first sin that corrupted human nature?
Original Sin (The originating sin)
400
What does God allow us the freedom to be?
What we were meant to be: Special creations of a gracious and loving God who created us for relationship with himself.
400
What word is used to describe the intimate, dynamic relationship between the Persons of the Trinity?
Perichoresis
400
In Chapter 9, what can sin be?
A transgression (A violation of God’s commandments.)
400
When does our final state occur?
When our souls are united with our new, glorified bodies in the resurrection of the dead at the end of the age.
400
What is the separation of one's whole being from God?
Spiritual death
500
What does the literary structure of Genesis 1 reflect?
The progression of Gods creative acts, leading to a climax at the end of day six, when God creates Adam.
500
What was intended as one form of physical expression of this mutual giving and receiving in love?
Sexual intimacy between husband and wife.
500
In Chapter 9, what are we in our natural state?
We are sinners existing in actual separation from God our Creator; we are spiritually dead in our transgressions because we are guilty before a holy God.
500
In Chapter 9, what is God’s glory?
It is his intrinsic majesty, beauty, holiness, and perfection. (It is the luminous splendor and magnificence God has his very nature.)
500
What is one aspect of divine judgement?
God allowing those who disobey and sin to have what they seek, but then suffer the natural consequences of their disobedience.