Search for God
He said religion is like a search engine.
Who is Bishop Barron?
Knowledge of God discovered through reason and observation of creation.
What is Natural Revelation?
He believed water was the origin of all things.
Who is Thales?
God’s self-communication to humanity, especially through Jesus Christ.
What is Divine Revelation?
The inspired Word of God in written form.
What is Scripture?
The mind seeks this.
What is Truth?
This type of reasoning helps humans understand truths about God and the universe.
What is Human Reasoning?
He believed numbers and mathematics explained reality.
Who is Pythagoras?
The importance of Divine Revelation.
What is humans can’t fully know God by reason alone?
The living transmission of the faith through the Church’s teaching, life, and worship.
What is Tradition?
The heart seeks this.
What is Goodness?
The reason why Christians start using reason and philosophy in the early Church.
What is to explain their beliefs and defend the faith?
This pre-Socratic philosopher taught that everything is in constant change (“You cannot step into the same river twice”).
Who is Heraclitus?
A sacred promise between God.
What is a covenant?
The teaching authority of the Church, exercised by the pope and bishops.
What is the Magisterium?
The way humans can attain unconditional happiness.
What is by living in union with God?
The reason why science and religion cannot be in competition.
What is because science studies the natural world, and religion studies ultimate meaning and God?
He proposed the ontological argument for God’s existence.
Who is St. Anselm?
He is the fullness of God’s revelation — God’s Word made flesh.
Who is Jesus?
The unbroken passing on of authority from the apostles to the bishops.
What is apostolic succession?
This saint believed you can "find God in all things".
Who is St. Ignatius?
The belief that science is the only way to know truth; the Church rejects it because it denies philosophy, theology, and human experience.
What is Scientism?
Everything that exists depends on something else; therefore, there must be a necessary being — God.
What is St. Thomas Aquinas’ argument from contingency?
The 6 major covenants in the Bible.
Who are Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, David, and the New Covenant in Christ?
He is the successor of Peter. They are the successors of the apostles.
Who is the pope? Who are the apostles?