Ufdn 3100 Quiz #6

Front 1

T/F: According to McGrath, there are places besides Genesis in the Old Testament where God is spoken of as Creator

Back 1

True

Front 2

T/F: According to McGrath, the Bible presents images of God creating order out of chaos

Back 2

True

Front 3

T/F: According to McGrath, the Genesis narrative of creation by a divine power overcoming chaotic forces is unique amongst religions

Back 3

False

Front 4

T/F: According to McGrath, a main theme of Scriptural understandings of creation is that creation is not part of God.

Back 4

True

Front 5

T/F: According to McGrath, that God created ex nihilo means that God created out of nothing.

Back 5

True

Front 6

T/F: According to McGrath, the prevailing Greek understanding of creation was that God brought order to already-existing material

Back 6

True

Front 7

T/F: According to McGrath, there were Christians who adhered to Gnostic ideas

Back 7

True

Front 8

T/F: According to McGrath, the idea that God created the world out of pre-existed mater has been used by some theologians in solving problems of theodicy

Back 8

True

Front 9

T/F: According to McGrath, Gnosticism is not dualistic

Back 9

False

Front 10

T/F: According to McGrath, the distinction between God and creation ought to imply an appreciation of creation by Christians.

Back 10

True*

Front 11

T/F: According to McGrath, the Doctrine of Creation does not have any ecological ramifications.

Back 11

So false

Front 12

T/F: According to McGrath, because it was brought into being by God, creation is perfect.

Back 12

SO FALSE

Front 13

According to McGrath, which of the following is not a major implication of the Doctrine of Creation?

A. Creation is Good

B. Creation will endure because it is part of God

C. God created humanity in the divine image

D. God has authority over creation

E. The Creator is distinct from creation

Back 13

B. Creation will endure because it is part of God

Front 14

According to McGrath, which of the following is not a model of God as Creator?

A. God creates through artistic expression

B. God creates through construction

C. God creates through emanation

D. God creates through imparting divine essence

E. God creates through ordering of chaos

Back 14

D. God creates through imparting divine essence

Front 15

T/F: According to Thomas Aquinas, creation bears the "fingerprints" of its Creator

Back 15

True

Front 16

T/F: According to John Calvin, no one on her/his own is able to perceive the existence of God.

Back 16

False

Front 17

T/F: According to McGrath, Emil Brunner and Karl Barth are two examples of the legitimacy of natural theology.

Back 17

False

Front 18

According to Ware, which of the following is not one of the implications of God's creation ex nihilo?

A. After completing the grand work of creation, God has let us be so that we can determine our own destinies

B. God created out of free will

C. God created out of love

D. Creation is contingent upon God

E. Creation is dependent on God

Back 18

A. After completing the grand work of creation, God has let us be so that we can determine our own destinies.

Front 19

T/F: According to Ware, God is finished with creating activities.

Back 19

False

Front 20

T/F: according to Ware, though God is not to be identified as being the same as the world, God is everywhere present in the world.

Back 20

True

Front 21

T/F: According to Ware, evil is created substance that has degenerated

Back 21

False

Front 22

T/F: According to Ware, humans are created with body, soul, and spirit

Back 22

True

Front 23

T/F: According to Ware, although there is a physical and a spiritual realm, humanity is presently active only in the physical realm

Back 23

False

Front 24

T/F: According to Ware, humanity acts as mediator for Creation.

Back 24

True

Front 25

T/F: According to Ware, human beings are unique in that they're able to be moral agents with free will.

Back 25

True

Front 26

T/F: According to Ware, being created in God's image enables and implies relationally with both God and other people.

Back 26

True

Front 27

T/F: According to Ware, being created in God's image implies that we are both priests and kings of creation

Back 27

True

Front 28

T/F: According to Ware, being created in God's image includes a deep, inner int of contact between God and ourselves.

Back 28

True

Front 29

T/F: According to Ware, while we are unable to know why evil exists, we can venture some conclusions from Scripture.

Back 29

True

Front 30

T/F: According to Ware, sin affects humanity in the moral realm rather than the bodily realm

Back 30

False

Front 31

According to Ware, there were many consequences to the Fall of humanity as told in Genesis. Which of the following is not one of those consequences?

A. Disunity between humans and God, and between humans and other humans

B. Humans misusing the capacity to create

C. People depriving others of their freedom

D. People no longer seeing the world around them as sacramental and as a gift, but rather seeing the world as a possession to be exploited E. People no longer seeing things as they are in themselves, as God sees them, but rather seeing things as they might serve him or her

F. The beginning of spiritual warfare

Back 31

F. The beginning of spiritual warfare

Front 32

T/F: According to Ware, all humans are inflicted with "total depravity"

Back 32

False?

Front 33

T/F: According to Ware, we do not inherit guilt from Adam's sin

Back 33

True

Front 34

T/F: According to Ware, God's love cannot truly be love if God does not suffer with us.

Back 34

True