Religion Exam - 1. theology definition Answer: the study of the...

Religion Exam

GRADED A+ (ACTUAL EXAM ) Questions and Answers (Solved)

• theology definition

Answer: the study of the divine

• divine revelation definition and the three types

Answer: the way God reveals his will to humanity

• Creation (natural law)
• sacred scripture
• Sacred tradition

• infallibility of the bible

Answer: The Holy Bible constitutes Sacred Scripture, and is therefore considered to be authoritatively infallible (free from doctrinal error regarding faith and morality) by Catholics. but not ineffable (free from all error)

• biblia

Answer: greek and latin word meaning "books" which sourced the word bible

• what is the bible and what is it a product of?

Answer: • collection of short books considered sacred to both Judaism and

Christianity (most books, anyway) • product of oral tradition, that is, it consists of stories that were told orally and only later written down • It is not meant as a science textbook, and should not be treated as one

• verbatim in relevance to the bible

Answer: verbatim means word for word

• the bible is not verbatim unlike the Qur'an meaning it isnt given word for word from

god to scribes

• inspiration of the bible

Answer: the understanding that the Holy Spirit protected the scribes of the Bible 1 / 4

from moral or faith-related errors The Bible is considered inspired by Christians, so the scribes who wrote it were protected by the Holy Spirit from doctrinal (faith and moral) errors; there are, however, scientific inconsistencies

• what are the oldest records of the tanakh

Answer: Dead Sea Scrolls found at Qumran, West Bank (near Israel/palestine)

• Masoretic Text

Answer: the oldest known surviving Tanakh

• Septuagint

Answer: Greek translation of the Old Testament in 3rd century BCE

• use was abandoned when greek speaking crhsitians adopted it

• Pentateuch

Answer: A Greek word meaning "five books," referring to the first five books of the Old Testament

• Torah

Answer: hebrew word for "the instruction" referring to the first 5 books of the old testament

• books of the torah/Pentateuch

Answer: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy

• Pope Damasus I

Answer: •In AD 382, Pope Damasus I commissioned St Jerome to translate the

Hebrew Texts and the Greek New Testament into Latin

• Latin vulgate

Answer: Latin translation of the Bible translated by St Jerome

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• St Jerome

Answer: Translated the Bible into Latin

• translated the bible in a cave outside Bethlehem

• Martin Luther

Answer: German priest who began the Protestant Reformation and proclaimed sola

scriptura

• declared a heretic

rejected any books in the Old Testament that were not part of the original Jewish canon

• proclaimed sola scriptura

• sola scriptura

Answer: means "scripture alone" indicating that no revelation was to come from anywhere except the Bible

• proclaimed by Martin Luther

• Council of Trent

Answer: The Catholic Church's response to Martin Luther (1545- 1563), declaring

Luther a heretic and confirming the Canon of Trent

• Canon of trent

Answer: the "official" list of books for the Bible which has been is use since the 4th century

• how many books are in the bible

Answer: 46 books from the Old Testament and 27 books from the New Testament

• Deuterocanonical Books/apocrypha

Answer: name given by Catholics to the 7 books not present in Protestant canons

(they are: Judith, Tobit, Baruch, Sirach, Wisdom, 1 Maccabees, 2 Maccabees)

• Dei Verbum

Answer: From the Latin: "Word of God." The document from the Second Vatican 3 / 4

Council about "revelation," the necessity and directions to read Sacred Scripture

• Genesis

Answer: (Greek: Beginning) the first book of the Bible and explains the cre- ation of the universe and the backstory of the Patriarchs (Abraham, Isaac, Jacob)

• made by people who believed in many gods but tried to believe in one

• what does the 7 days creation story mean

Answer:

1.God is one, not many 2.Created everything by plan, not by chance 3.Everything is made good, not evil 4.The Sabbath is made special

• Literalists vs contextualists in relevance to evolution

Answer: literalists deny evolution and believe exactly the story of adam and eve contextualists are open to evolution and some believe adam and eve are metaphor ical

• two types of contextualists for evolution

Answer: 1: non-theistic: do not believe in a personal God, but rather that everything sprang up from random chance 2: theistic: believe God created the conditions necessary for evolution to occur

• self alienation in creation

Answer: Adam and Eve felt alienated from God and them- selves when they realized that they were naked, that nakedness was a sign of defeat and disgrace

• alienation from god in creation

Answer: after adam and eve ate the fruit, they hid from god

•Adam and Eve are now uncomfortable in God's presence; they fear Him

• alienation from nature in creation

Answer:

• adam and eve are cast out of the garden of eden
• childbirth is painful, humans need to gather food, humans are now mortal and

experience pain

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