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S1 QUIZ 3: Natural Revelation & Natural Law
S1 QUIZ 3: Natural Revelation & Natural Law
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Review game over the arguments for Natural Law, God's existence, and the first 3 Facts of Life.
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We all make judgements about truth, beauty, & goodness. How do we judge? God exists as a perfect standard to judge by.
Degrees of Perfection
Argument from Cause
None of these
The Moral Argument
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The Pagan who decided to die by capital punishement (drinking poison) rather than lying about there being one God.
Thomas Aquinas
Plato
Aristotle
Socrates
3
Who wrote the most known form of the moral argument?
Muslims
C.S. Lewis
St. Thomas Aquinas
Richard Dawkins
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There is no way to know God exists without Divine Revelation.
False
True
5
According to what we have studied in class, there is no difference between Natural and Divine Revelation.
False
True
6
Which of the following is a Christian?
Thomas Aquinas
Aristotle
Richard Dawkins
Plato
7
The Greek philosophical observation that there are so much order & so many patterns the creation must be designed.
Principle of unity
4th Way: Argument from Governance.
Principle of Causality
Principle of Order
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The Greek Philosophical observation: Everything in creation operates as a whole, so there must be one designer not many.
Polytheism
Principle of Causality
Principle of Order
Principle of Unity
9
Aristotle & Plato grew up in Christian societies, but were not Christians themselves.
True
False
10
If there is a designer, humanity has a definite purpose & morality, regardless of our personal opinions about it.
True
False
11
According to classroom discussion, how can we know if a civil law is just or needs to be changed?
The civil law contradicts Divine Revelation.
The civil law contradicts the natural law.
The civil law contradicts Church teaching.
The civil law contradicts the Bible.
12
That which we can only know about God if God reveals it to us directly and supernaturally.
Natural Law
Scripture or the Bible
None of the above
Natural Revelation
13
Which of the following is most nearly what Christianity says is the Purpose of Life?
To go to heaven.
Lasting Happiness
To know love & serve God in this life & live eternally with him in the next
To love and serve God in this life.
14
Thomas Aquinas lived way before Christianity existed and provided ways of knowing God through natural revelation alone.
False
True
15
According to what we've learned in the moral argument an atheist cannot be good without believing in God.
True
False
16
20th century author who fleshed out the argument from morality with the book "Mere Christianity".
Aristotle
Thomas Aquinas
C.S. Lewis
Richard Dawkins
17
All humans understand that morality exists, but without God morality could not exist. Therefore God must exist.
Moral Argument
Natural Law
Degrees of Perfection
Kalam Cosmological Argument
18
A Christian who said, "For you have made us for yourself (oh, God) & our hearts are restless until they rest in you."
Aristotle
Bob Dylan
Augustine
Thomas Aquinas
19
Even if Natural Law exists, because of sin, mankind can still become confused about what is right and wrong.
True
False
20
Who originated the "Principle of Causality"?
Augustine
Aristotle
Plato & Socrates
Aquinas
21
Because of the way we are made, some humans may reject God, but they will always have a religious impulse.
False
True
22
According to the Nicene creed, Christians believe that we will be reunited with our bodies at some point after death.
True
False
23
The only argument we studied which is based in science is the argument from Contingency/Possibility & Necessity
True
False
24
If we want to know God fully, God must reveal Himself supernaturally through divine revelation.
True
False
25
The human ability which, when applied to natural revelation, can figure out there is a God & what God expects of us.
Morality
Divine Revelation
Reason
Natural Revelation
26
If everything is contingent & relies on other contingent things, It's possible nothing should exist; So why do we exist?
Kalam Cosmological Argument
Argument from Degrees of Perfection
Argument from Fine-Tuning
Argument from possibility and necessity
27
Natural selection alone can't fully account for why all human beings seem to have a sense that right & wrong exist.
True
False
28
According to the concept of natural law, we don't need the Bible to tell us the very basics of morality.
False
True
29
The one who reasoned: "If there is a creator, we have a design, & if there is a design, we have a purpose."
Aristotle
Aquinas
Augustine
Plato
30
The universe has a beginning & couldn't cause itself, therefore some eternal uncaused cause caused the very first thing.
Argument from Contingency
Moral Argument
Kalam Cosmological argument
Argument from Cause`
31
Which of the following CANNOT be said of God from Natural Revelation alone?
The Bible is truly God's Word
Jesus is God's son
All of the Other Answers
God loves humanity
32
According to Christianity, because of the way we are created, some humans have no religious impulse what-so-ever.
False
True
33
FACT 3: Using human _______ man can understand certain things about ______ from observing _________ __________
Faith, God, Scripture, Tradition
Reason, God, Natural Revelation
Faith, God, Divine Revelation
Faith, God, Natural Law
34
According to Christianity God hides his existence from his creatures in order to test their faith.
False
True
35
The sexiest man God created:
Ryan Reynolds
NON-ANSWER
Ocean's 12 Era Brad Pitt
Denzel Washington
36
If there is no designer of humanity (atheism), then humanity has no real purpose or morality; all is just opinion.
False
True
37
Nothing we experience causes itself to exist. Something must be the "ultimate cause" which holds us here, right now.
The argument from degrees of perfection.
Aquinas' argument from cause
Kalam Cosmological argument
The argument from Contingency
38
If God does not exist, there is no true basis of morality.
False
True
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The moral code written in how creation is made; needing no divine revelation for humans to understand or live out.
Natural law
Civil law
Divine law
Natural revelation
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FACT 2: _____ _________s Himself to mankind in 2 ways relatively ________ to discern.
God, reveal, easy
God, reveal, discern
Know, love, serve.
God, show, loving
41
Humans are created to ____, ____, & _____ _____ faithfully in this ______ & live eternally with Him in the ______.
None of the above
Know, love, serve, God, life, next
love, know, live, life, here, eternally
Serve, live, love, God, life, history
42
It is at least reasonable to believe there
might
be a God from the evidence seen in the natural world.
False
True
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There are dozens of forces impossibly precisely tuned to one another so life can exist. God is the best explanation.
The Moral argument
Kalam Cosmological Argument
Argument from Fine-tuning
None of the above
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The Pagan who first described God as the "uncaused cause" of the universe.
Socrates
St. Thomas Aquinas
Plato
Aristotle
