Trinity
True/False: Each person of the Trinity comprises one third of God
False
True/False: In John 1, we are told that The Word was with God and also that the Word was God.
True
True/False: The Holy Spirit is the power or force of God the Father.
False
Who denied the divinity of Christ at the council of Nicea? One of the major heresies is named after him.
Arius
Which council was Arianism condemned at?
Nicaea
The analogy of Trinity as water, ice, and steam leads to which heresy?
Modalism
True/False: The Jews of Jesus's day understood very well that Jesus claimed to be God.
True
What did Paul call the Holy Spirit in the story with Ananias in Acts 5?
God
What does Arianism deny?
The fully deity of the Son and Holy Spirit
Name a modern cult that is guilty of Tritheism
Mormonism (aka LDS)
Provide a Biblical example that shows 2 Persons of the Trinity in Relationship
Example: The Baptism of Jesus
True/False: The Son and the Father lovingly submit to each-other, which is the template for human marriage:
False
True/False: The Holy Spirit's nature is divine but different than that of the Father and the Son.
All Trinitarian heresies are due to the denial of one of the (fill in the blank)
3 major statements about God taught in the Bible
Name a denomination considered Protestant (by some) that is guilty of the Modalist heresy
Oneness Pentecostals
Name the 3 major statements that form a Biblical summary of the Trinity doctrine:
God is one, God is 3 Persons, each Person is fully God
How does the Son's submission to the Father make the Son inferior to the Father?
It doesn't!
Name 3 personal roles of the Holy Spirit
Teaches, comforts, intercedes, gives gifts, searches, bears witness, decides, + more
The three major Trinitarian heresies are:
Modalism, Arianism, Tritheism
How does the denial of Jesus as God compromise the atonement?
A creature can't save us, only God can
John 3:16 says that God gave His only begotten ('monogenes') Son. What does 'genes' mean?
Either 'to beget' or unique/one and only
Name the clause inserted into the Nicene Creed that led to the Great Schism in 1054
Filioque
Name two Biblical texts that Arians used in support of their heresy
1) Christ is begotten (John 3:16), 2) Firstborn of creation (Col 1), 3) Prov 8:22 Lord created/possessed me