Chapter 1 Review

Three ways that God has made himself known to human beings throughout history are:

• Through scripture, prophets, and nature

• Through technology, magic, and dreams

• Through legends, rumors, and fiction

• Through science, mathematics, and inventions

Complete the sentence: The ____________ itself is a sign of God's existence.

• world (or creation)

• book

• painting

• machine

Complete the sentence: God makes himself known to us because he __________ us.

• loves

• fears

• ignores

• judges

Complete the sentence: _______ is what God has made known about himself and his plan for humanity.

• Revelation

• Tradition

• Creation

• Imagination

Complete the sentence: Revelation is communicated in two main ways: through ______________ and ______________.

• Sacred Scripture and Sacred Tradition

• Prayer and Meditation

• Prophets and Kings

• Church and State

Complete the sentence: God fully revealed himself by sending ________________________.

• Jesus Christ

• Moses

• Abraham

• King David

Complete the sentence: The responsibility to teach what God has revealed through Sacred Tradition and Sacred Scripture became the responsibility of the __________ and their __________.

• Apostles and their successors (bishops)

• Prophets and their scribes

• Disciples and their followers

• Priests and their deacons

Sacred Tradition is based on a word meaning “________________________.”

• handing down (or tradition, depending on the textbook context)

• sacred writing

• divine inspiration

• eternal truth

Tradition means both the ________________ of our faith and the ________ it was handed down throughout the centuries.

• content, process (or message, way; depending on the textbook context)

• origin, reason

• history, method

• belief, explanation

Sacred Tradition started with the preaching of the ____________.

• Apostles

• Prophets

• Kings

• Pharisees