Session 2 Quiz

What is true of the Spirit?

• The Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father through the Son
• The Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son
• The Holy Spirit does not come from anything being eternal
• None of These

Philosophy has done what for the Faith of Christians?

• It clarified the Church's Trinitarian faith, both to deepen her own understanding of the faith and to defend it against the errors
• It made the faith more convincing and so changed for the Pagans
• It has shown to decrease the faith of those who prefer to philosophy to faith throughout history.
• It provides a way to explain the mystery of the Trinity in its entirety, allowing the faith of the Christian to be complete not lacking in any apprehension of the heavenly mysteries

The Three Persons of the Trinity come in succession: the Father, then the Son, and then the Spirit

• True
• False

Inseparable in what they are, the divine persons are also inseparable in what they do. But within the single divine operation each shows forth what is proper to him

• True
• False

The belief "that everything is God" is called...

• Materialism
• Deism
• Gnosticism
• Pantheism

The belief that "two eternal principles, Good and Evil, Light and Darkness, locked, in permanent conflict" is called...

• Materialism
• Dualism
• Gnosticism
• Pantheism

Those that " reject any transcendent origin for the world, but see it as merely the interplay of matter that has always existed" are?

• Manichaes
• Materialists
• Gnostics
• Deists

Where does our belief in God as creator first originate?

• The First law of motion and the expansion of the universe from a central point
• Thomas Aquinas's concept of the first cause
• The Beginning of Scripture
• Christ refeering to God as Father

God, who creates and conserves all things by his Word, provides men with

• everything He needs to earn his salvation.
• revelation, that man may know Him.
• freedom to love.
• constant evidence of himself in created realities.

What is not affirmed by the first words of "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth"?

• the heavens and the earth are exactly as God intended them
• the eternal God gave a beginning to all that exists outside of himself
• he alone is Creator
• The totality of what exists depends on the One who gives it being