Monday, February 6, 2006

A quiz & some notes on General/Special Revelation

(Originally written February 6, 2006 in Book 23)

Quiz Questions: True or False

Faith and Knowledge are mutually exclusive
-False

The moral sense that tells us when others have wronged us is
-Judicial sentiment

A posteriori arguments argue for the existence of God on what basis?
-Facts observed by the human senses

Thomas Aquinas' version of the argument from designs is called the
-Teleological argument

JFK and C.S. Lewis died on the same day.

Quiz 2

What has Athens to do with Jerusalem is an anti-philosophical polemic by
-Tertullian

Calvin believed that faith in Christ
-included doubt but never results in the ultimate falling away from faith

Who believed the 'first principles' of all truth not through reason, but through the heart?
-Blaise Pascal

Implication of General Revelation

Accountability before God
Romans 2:14-16 (conscience)
Romans 2:1 (judicial sentiment)

Holy Scripture

One aspect of Special revelation
Special revealing: God's self disclosure. "Truth as encounter"
Such encounter does not exclude information (propositional truth)

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