Intro Lectures
Around how many different people contributed to the writing of the Bible?
40
What new name did Jesus give Simon?
Peter (Cephas)
To what does Lewis compare theology?
Map
What does Apologetics mean?
A defense
What is the popular view of Jesus in western culture?
Jesus was just a great moral teacher
The most credible historical documents have a high number of...?
Copies
What is the Greek word for "Word" in John 1?
Logos
How does Mere Christianity define "making" something?
You make something of a different kind from yourself
What is the idea that holds that there are really no absolutes?
Relativism
What are the steps of a logical argument that lead to a conclusion?
Premises
What is the understanding that how a term is used the first time in the Bible is the foundation for how it is user in later texts?
First Use Rule
What were the Judean people looking for from any major spiritual leader?
Signs to show they were from God
What does "beget" mean?
To become the father of
What is the term for the worldview that allows no room for the supernatural?
Secularism
Jesus referred to Himself as the "ladder" to heaven referencing which Old Testament patriarch?
Jacob
The created world is an example of what kind of revelation?
General Revelation
What were the Jews expecting the Messiah to do at the time of Jesus?
Throw off their Roman oppressors and set up an earthly kingdom
Man, in our natural state, only has what kind of life?
Bios
According to Craig, what are the two conditions necessary for a meaningful, valuable, and purposeful life?
God and Immortality
What is the big idea found in John 1:14?
The idea that the Holy Spirit sovereignly directed the human authors of the Bible so that the finished product is exactly what God intended is known as the __________ of Scripture.
Inspiration
When John the Baptist was asked who he was, which Old Testament prophet did he quote?
Isaiah
Concerning Lewis' definition of the Trinity, what is the meaning of the Christian words "God is love"?
That God must contain at least 2 persons
For Leibniz, what was the most basic question that anyone can ask?
Why is there something rather than nothing?
Things that exist _____________ can fail to exist and so need an external cause to explain why they exist.
Contingently