Theology Chapter 2: God's Revelation Vocabulary

The doctrine that the Bible's books are free from error regarding the truth God wishes to reveal

• divine revelation

• biblical inerrancy

• original sin

• scripture

Saint Thomas Aquinas did what?

• provide five proofs that Jesus exists

• gave us the ten commandments

• provide five proofs that God exists

• helped people who were sick

God is...

• The true author of the bible

• Our savior

• All knowing

Scholastics are...

• These people used philosophy and logic to better understand God and his revealed truth.

• Used Critical thinking to help understand the bible

• Wanted to understand God and his revealed truth

The aspect of a human being that is made in God's image.

• heart

• brain

• eyes

• soul

What is Creation?

• A way we can come to know God

• Everything in nature that God made

Jesus Christ is..

• The pattern of specific events in human history in which God clearly reveals his presence and saving actions.

• The one who most fully reveals God to us

• One way we can come to know God is by observing this.

• God's self-communication, making known the mystery of the divine plan.

What is reason?

• the human ability that sin obscures

• a gift God gave us

What is Divine Inspiration

• The process by which God makes himself known to human reason through the created world

• God's self-communication, making known the mystery of the divine plan.

• The divine assistance the Holy Spirit gave the authors of the books of the Bible

• a surprising and previously unknown fact, especially one that is made known in a dramatic way.

What is Divine Revelation?

• God's self-communication, making known the mystery of the divine plan.

• The divine assistance the Holy Spirit gave the authors of the books of the Bible

• The process by which God makes himself known to human reason through the created world.

• a surprising and previously unknown fact, especially one that is made known in a dramatic way.