Chapter 4-6 Study Guide

Which term means that God is unable to be fully understood?

Incomprehensible

Which of the following can we know about God?

The truth about God’s Character and God himself on a personal

Incommunicable attributes are those attributes which

God does not share with us

According to Psalm 102, God has the attribute of

Unchangeableness

How do we know that God exists?

We can know that God exists through nature, through Scripture, and through an inner sense of his existence.

What are the five incommunicable attributes of God?

Independence, Unchangeableness, Eternity, Omnipresence, Unity

What is another term for independence, also known as self-existence?

Asiety

According to the textbook, what two ways can we know or be aware of the existence of God?

Humanity’s inner sense of God and the evidence in Scripture and nature 

Examples such as eternity, unchangeableness, omnipresence, describe what kind of attributes?

Incommunicable attributes 

Examples such as love, knowledge, justice describe what kind of attributes?

Communicable attributes

God does not need us or the rest of creation for anything, yet we and the rest of creation glorify Him and bring Him joy. What attribute does this describe?

Independence

God is unchanging in His being, perfections, purposes, and promises, yet He does act and feel emotions, and He acts and feels differently in response to different situations. Also known as immutability. What attribute does this describe?

Unchangeableness

God has no beginning, end, or succession of moments in His own being, and He sees all time equally vividly, yet God sees events in time and acts in time. What attribute does this describe?

Eternity

God does not have size or spatial dimensions, and is present at every point of space with His whole being, yet God acts differently in different places. What attribute does this describe?

Omnipresence

God is not divided into parts, yet we see different attributes of God emphasized at different times. What attribute does this describe?

Unity

God has no beginning, end, or succession of moments in His own being, and He sees all time equally vividly, yet God sees events in time and acts in time. 

God is limited to time and only sees events as they happen

Which of the following are moral attributes of God?

Holiness and wrath

Which of the following are attributes describing God’s being?

Spirituality and Invisibility

1. God’s _____________ means that God’s total essence, all of His spiritual being, will never be able to be seen by us, yet God still shows Himself to us through visible created things. 

Invisibility

Which of the following are attributes of purpose?

Will and omnipotence

God’s _________ will is also sometimes called his will of precept.

Revealed

God continually seeks to protect His own honor describes what attribute?

Jealousy

God fully knows Himself and all things actual and possible in one simple and eternal act describes what attribute?

Knowledge

God always chooses the best goals and the best means to those goals describes what attribute?

Wisdom

God is the true God and all His knowledge and words are both true and the final standard of truth. What attribute does this describe?

Truthfulness

God is the final standard of good, and all that God is and does is worthy of approval. God's mercy and grace are closely related to His goodness.  What attribute does this describe?

Goodness

God eternally gives of Himself to others. What attribute does this describe?

Love

God is separated from sin and devoted to seeking to His own honor. What attribute does this describe?

Holiness

God always acts in accordance with what is right and is Himself the final standard of what is right. What attribute does this describe?

Righteousness

God continually seeks to protect His own honor. What attribute does this describe?

Jealousy

God intensely hates all sin. What attribute does this describe?

Wrath

Which of the following statements are used to summarize the doctrine of the Trinity?

God is three persons, each person is fully God, there is one God

Which of the following claims that God is one person in three different forms?

Modalism

Which of the following denies the full deity of the Son and Holy Spirit

Arianism

Which of the following denies that there is only one God?

Tritheism

Arianism claims _____________.

That the Son and the Spirit are not of the same nature as God

Which of the following claims that Jesus is eternal but inferior to the Father in being or attributes?

Subordinationism

The role of commanding, directing, and sending belongs to whom?

Father

The role of obeying, going, and revealing belongs to whom?

Son

The role of obeying, going, and revealing belongs to whom?

Holy Spirit

Explain the concept of God being omnipresent?

God is everywhere

Explain the difference between incommunicable attributes and communicable attributes and provide example.

Attributes God does not share, or communicate, with others. Examples - eternity, unchangeableness, omnipresence. Communicable attributes - Attributes God shares, or communicates, with others. Examples - love, knowledge, justice.

What are some things God will not do?

God cannot lie

Explain the importance of the doctrine of the Trinity

If there is no Trinity, then Jesus is not God.

Explain the trinity

God is three persons and each person is fully God