Natural Revelation
What is natural revelation?
The relationship between a person, the world, and God.God speaking to us through natural means and the world.
What is Divine Revelation?
How God makes himself known to us beyond our natural capacity to know him through reason.
Since everything is moved by something, there must be something that moves all things without itself being moved.
Argument from Motion
Tradere the Latin word means
to hand on
How many books are recorded in Sacred Scripture?
73
What are the two sources of natural revelation?
The world and people
What is Salvation History?
The story of God's plan to save man from the consequences of sin; unfolding throughout time until the second coming of Christ.
Since everything has a cause, there must be something that causes all things without itself being caused.
Argument of Causality
Orally
Sacred Scripture is _____ and _____
Inspired and inerrant
What are the three transcendental properties?
Truth, Beauty, Goodness
What is Faith?
Belief in what has been revealed to us by God.
Everything must come from something.
Argument of Contingency
Sacred Tradition ____ or comes before Sacred Scripture.
precedes
"Breathed in" means that God himself guided the authors who wrote the books.
Inspired
What is the religious sense?
Within all people there is a longing for God and for ultimate meaning.
What is the Deposit of Faith?
Is the heritage of which has been handed on since the time of the apostles.
We are capable of making value judgement, determining things to be more or less perfect.
Argument from Degrees of Perfection
The teachings of Christ handed down orally before it was written down
Scared Tradition
Inerrant means...
What are man's two most famous fundamental desires?
Happiness and Love
What are the 3 stages of Faith?
Faith is received from others.
It is verified by one's owned experience.
Comes alive when it is lived in communion.
Since everything in the universe show purpose
Argument from Governance
Divine Revelation is contained in two seprate but not distinct sources: Sacred Scripture and ________
Sacred Tradition
Sacred Scripture teaches the....
Truth