BTH121-Final-Exam

List the four “natures” of God:

The Bible reveals God as one of the infinite and eternal beings, having no beginning and no ending.

What two terms are practically synonymous when used of God?

How may the two words just answered be defined?______________

The Bible attempts to prove or argue the existence of God.

Universal belief in God comes from without man.

What is the argument from “cause and effect?”___________

This creation could not have come into existence without an intelligent personal creator.

God exists by effort or intention.

God exists independently and is free from dependence upon anything outside of Himself.

In being the living and true God, He is the embodiment of the ______ life principle and He is ______ as what He must be if He is to be God.

There are twenty-two references in each Testament that identify Jehovah as the living God.

As living Spirit, God is alive in Himself.

God’s personality is shown in what He does, such as:

God is no more than a version of exalted human self-consciousness.

The essential mode of the Divine being is as spirit.

The basic being of God is material.

There are no Scriptural reports of the tangible appearance of the Divine being.

Scriptures credit God with functioning in the manner of being with a ______.

Theophanies were indeed events that occurred and what was experienced by human spectators was the essential being or person of God.

Believers of all ages have enjoyed visions that most certainly communicated God to them.

God is a person, proved by the essence of personality, which is:

Beatific visions of God are very real to the one experiencing them, as they involve the literal functioning of the human sense of physically seeing.

Match the attribute with personality:

God is infinite in relation to space.

God had a beginning but no end.

God is free from all _______ of time.

Time will never merge into eternity.

God is finite in knowledge.

God seeks to promote the happiness of His creatures and to perfect the saints in holiness which is the highest possible end.

Omnipotence is a source of comfort and hope to the Believer.

God is absolutely unchangeable in His what?

In the beginning, God already was.

Seldom is the fact of God’s wisdom related to an invitation to worship Him.

God is absolutely separate from and exalted above most of His creatures.

Holiness is the regulative principle of love, power, and God’s will; and it establishes God’s throne.

The goodness of God includes what?

God’s mercy is His goodness shown toward the undeserving.

The truth of God is the foundation of all religion, but not all knowledge.

God declares that His doings and promises, and those things to which He commits will not come to pass.

The love of God can appear as deep intense anger and indignation.

In review of IIB, The Attributes of God, match the attributes of God as either:

God is monotheistic.

The distinctions of the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit make up the tri-personality in God’s oneness.

Match the personality (Father, Son, or Holy Spirit), with the attribute:

Even the creation implies the doctrine of the Trinity.

Elohim, the common name for Deity, is plural.

List 2 familiar formulas which include all three persons of the Godhead:

The relationship of the Triune Godhead started at creation.

Surely Jesus Christ is the greatest of all men, but He is infinitely more than mere man.

List from the Commentary 3 ways how Jesus Christ is demonstrated by Scriptures as infinitely more then mere man:

No one else ever claimed that Jesus was the Son of God.

Holy Spirit is a mere influence or Divine power.

Holy Spirit is God and He is co-equal but not coexistent with the Father and the Son.

List 4 proofs to the answer on the above statement:

The dove speaks of the Holy Spirit’s power to anoint for service.

List 5 works of the Holy Spirit:

The decrees of God may be defined as God’s eternal purpose.

What are decrees aimed at?_________________

Match the decree with the realm:

Revelation is classified by theologians in what ways: give a short explanation.

God seldom charts the course of a nation.

List 2 of the 6 implications unique to general revelation:

The Bible declares itself to be inspired.

Match the definitions:

Why cannot the ultimate answers to the act of creation be found in scientific knowledge?

God has no absolute right to rule over all.

By preservation, we mean that God maintains in existence all the things which He has made.

From the commentary, explain what preservation is not:

Christ is the mediating agent in preservation.

To say that prayer can have no real effect upon God, since He has already decreed just what He will do in every instance is an extreme position.