Theology Semester One Final

The biblical authors discarded their culture and personal insights as they wrote the Bible.

God's Love for us depends on our response to his love for us.

The human person is meant for relationship.

‘Transcendence’ means that the only things we can know about God is what God says in Scripture.

The Dead Sea Scrolls contain extracts from the Acts of the Apostles.

Our intellect and mind are unlimited in what they can come to know about who God is.

The Holy Spirit inspired the authors to write the Bible as members of their faith community.

Faith in God is reasonable.

St. Katharine Drexel was from the United States.

God chose Abraham to lead the Israelites out of slavery to freedom in the Promised Land.

Scripture and Tradition are two separate sacred deposits of the Word of God.

Our freedom for the voice of conscience clearly shows that there is no God.

Humans have both a soul and intellect.

Several accounts of the Gospel were not included by the Church's canon of Scripture.

The sin of Cain and Abel is called Original Sin.

There are five accounts of Creation.

The Bible’s human authors are the primary authors of Sacred Scripture.

The human person is meant for god.

The book of Genesis gives us a Faith account of Creation

History is the only literary genre used in the Bible.

The Bible reveals God’s plan for all humankind.

God chose Moses to be the founder of God’s chosen people.

The human eye is often used as a symbol to talk about what is really important to human beings.

The early disciples of Jesus had great reverence for the Hebrew Scriptures.

God rested on the Fifth day of creation

The inerrancy of the Bible means that the Bible is written in Hebrew.

There is little or no real connection between the Old Testament and the New Testament.

God created human beings as the highest point or "pinnacle" of Creation

On the seventh day of Creation God rested.

Jesus is the Messiah, the Anointed One, whom God promised to send to his people.

The stories in the Bible were first handed on by word of mouth.

All the stories in the Bible are factually true.

God promises us salvation by making a covenant with Noah.

The climax of God’s Revelation came through his prophets.

All the stories in the Bible are factually true.

After the Ascension, God sent the Holy Spirit to guide the disciples of Jesus.

The Acts of the Apostles describes the early Church after the Ascension.

The number of books in the Catholic canon of Scripture is than of the Protestant canon.

The old testament was created 300 A.D.

The Psalms are songs of prayer.

The earliest writings in the New Testament are the four accounts of the Gospel.

Our wants the same as our needs.

The Church accepted a longer canon at the Synod of Hippo in 393 and Council of Carthage in 419.

The word ‘Testament’ means ‘story’.

Our desires are the same as our needs.

In the Bible God speaks to us in human language.

The deepest human desire is for respect.

There are four accounts of creation within the Book of Genesis

The human sense of moral goodness points to the existence of God.

God is the perfect standard for all positive human qualities.

Our good deeds earn God’s grace for us.

The Book of Genesis is an eyewitness account of creation.

Scripture has only played a vital role in the Church since the Council of Trent.

True people of faith accept the Word of God without seeking to understand what God is revealing