Creation- Week 2 Lesson Questionnaire

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God is the _______________, who rules, sustains, and governs all creation with eternal power and authority.

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Pantocrator

Answer explanation

God is The Pantocrator (All-Powerful, Almighty)

From very the beginning, God reveals Himself to His creation as the Almighty Creator, The Pantokrator who has absolute and universal power of the origin of all things, both seen and unseen. Everything that exists finds its source and purpose in Him. God is not only the Maker of creation but also its sustainer and ruler. Only God possesses divine nature. All created beings, angels, humans, animals, and the universe are distinct and dependent on God their Creator, never self-existent.

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___________ means God is present everywhere at all times, filling all creation and sustaining all things by His divine presence.

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Omnipresent

Answer explanation

• God is Omnipresent. He is not limited by space or time. God is infinite, meaning God is beyond time and space; He is always present, guiding and sustaining all creation.

• • Jeremiah 23:23-24: "Am I a God who is only near…and not a God who is far away? Can a person hide in secret places where I cannot see him?… Do I not fill the heavens and the earth?” declared the LORD". 

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God has no beginning or end, existing forever in His unchanging nature and transcending time. This means God is ____________.

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Eternal

Answer explanation

God is Eternal, Without Beginning or End. God exists outside of time and is uncreated.

• Revelation 1:8:

• “I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.” 

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God is _______________ in His essence and will; His nature, purpose, and promises remain constant and faithful through all generations.

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Immutable

Answer explanation

• God is Immutable (Unchanging) and Faithful. God does not change His nature, promises, or purposes. He is unchanging in His nature, His character, and His promises. This also means He is completely faithful: what He says, He will do; what He promises, He will fulfill.

Psalm 102:25–27

“In the beginning, O Lord, You founded the earth,
And the heavens are the works of Your hands.
They shall perish, but You shall remain;
And all things shall grow old like a garment.
Like a cloak You will change them, and they shall be changed.
But You are the same, And Your years shall not fail.”

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God is compassionate, loving, merciful, kind, and caring toward humanity despite our sins and shortcomings. True or False?

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True

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God is _____________ means, He's infinite being and divine essence surpass all human thought and explanation.

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Incomprehensible

Answer explanation

• God is Incomprehensible. We can truly know God through His revelation, but we cannot fully understand His divine essence, because He is infinite and beyond the limits of human reason. God Is Infinite - Our Minds Are Limited.

• St. Cyril of Alexandria (ቅዱስ ቄርሎስ) explains that attempting to grasp the inner essence of God is impossible for the created mind, since the divine nature is uncreated, eternal, and utterly beyond our categories of thought. Instead, he urges believers to adore God through faith, thanksgiving, and obedience. (The father from 14 Kidase writers, ቅዳሴ ቄርሎስ)

Isaiah 55:8–9

• "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts."

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God’s ______________ is higher than human thought; all true knowledge, understanding and insight flow from Him.

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Wisdom

Answer explanation

• God is The source of wisdom: God's wisdom surpasses human understanding. The Church teaches that all knowledge, understanding, wisdom and insight come from God. His plans and actions are always perfectly thought out. God is above all wisdom!

• Psalm 104:24-

• "O Lord, how manifold are Your works! In wisdom You have made them all. The earth is full of Your riches."

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God is ____________ means, God alone exists beyond time and decay, unchanging and eternal, the source of life who cannot die.

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Immortal

Answer explanation

God is Immortal means that God alone exists beyond time and decay, unchanging and eternal, the source of life who cannot die.

• Psalm 90:2: “From everlasting to everlasting, You are God. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God". 

• 1 Timothy 1:17: "Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen". 

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Our Church teaches that God, the living ___________, reveals Himself through His presence and unites us with Him.

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Truth

Answer explanation

• God is Truth!

• “God is Truth” means Truth is not just an idea, but God Himself. His Truth is shown in the divine order, wisdom, and purpose revealed in creation.

• St. Cyril of Alexandria (ቅዱስ ቄርሎስ) said that “in the harmony of creation, we see the Truth of the Creator’s mind and goodness.”

• In our Ethiopian Orthodox liturgy (Kidase), the deacon proclaims: “Blessed is the Lord, the God of Truth, who has revealed to us the truth of His salvation.”

Deuteronomy 32:4

“He is the Rock, His work is perfect;
for all His ways are justice.
A God of truth and without injustice;
righteous and upright is He.”

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Fill the verse: "I have _________ you with an everlasting love; therefore with mercy I have drawn you." Jeremiah 31

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