THEO 104 Quiz 4- Latest Update 2025 Solutions Manual Fully Solved
What point does the author illustrate with an elephant and 4 blind men? - Answers 4 men touched the
same elephant but came up with 4 different views (based on personal experience and described what
they experienced) The failure to see the whole elephant resulted in a defective description
Do Moslem leaders claim that Christianity and Islam are alike in that Allah was "the God and Father of
our Lord Jesus Christ?" - Answers No
What are the 4 questions that Darwinians have not been able to answer? - Answers 1. Where is the
missing link?
2. How can man evolve to be the highest of living beings if mutations are degenerative and result in
inferior derivations?
3. Where does life originate?
4. Is there well balanced data that shows whether or not there was an intelligent design in creation?
What question did the old Presbyterian catechism address first? - Answers What is the chief end of
man? (to glorify God and enjoy Him forever)
What do Christians believe the source of suffering to be? - Answers conditions in this world, not from
God
What two reasons does the author suggest that we can know that Christianity actually explains life as
we know it? - Answers 1. Christianity is a consistent belief system (answers all the questions of life and
all the answers perfectly correspond with one another)
2. Christianity is a belief system that provides satisfying life systems for all who follow Jesus (no matter
sex, financial status, age or culture)
What is Revelation? - Answers Revelation is the act whereby God gives us knowledge about Himself
which we could not otherwise know.
What is inspiration? - Answers Inspiration is the supernatural guidance of the writers of Scripture by the
Spirit of God whereby they wrote the divine Word of God, transcribed accurately and reliably.
What is inerrancy? - Answers Inerrancy recognizes that what God revealed and inspired is accurate,
reliable, authoritative and without error.
What is the Canon? - Answers The Canon is the standard by which the sixty-six books in the Bible and
their content were determined and the basis upon which they were included in Scripture
What is hermeneutics? - Answers Hermeneutics is the science of biblical interpretation
, What is illumination? - Answers Illumination is the work of the Holy Spirit in helping the believer
understand and apply the spiritual meaning of the Scriptures.
What does Hebrews 1:1-2 teach about divine revelation? - Answers Divine revelation is also progressive.
God spoke both "in time past unto the fathers by the prophets" and "hath in these last days spoken unto
us by his Son" (Heb. 1:1-2). Revelation was progressive not in the sense that prior facts (i.e., Old
Testament) were false, but rather that they were incomplete.
What are the two areas of revelation? - Answers natural and special, 1. General (Natural) Revelation
2. Special Revelation
What is natural revelation? - Answers The process which God makes himself known to human reason
through the created world.
What is special revelation? - Answers Special revelation is the self-revelation of God through the
Scriptures and finalized in Jesus Christ and relates to God's plan of salvation for man.
What is reason? - Answers Reason is the intellectual and moral faculties of man as exercised in the
pursuit of truth apart from supernatural aid.
What does the Cosmological argument state? - Answers Nature reveals God's power and Godhead
What does the Teleological argument state? - Answers Design in the universe reveals a designer
What does the Anthropological argument state? - Answers Human nature reveals a personal God.
What does the Anthropological argument reason? - Answers 1. Man's intellectual and moral nature
must have had for its author an intellectual and moral being
2. Man's moral nature proves the existence of a holy Lawgiver and Judge.
3. Man's emotional and voluntary nature proves the existence of a Being who can furnish in himself a
satisfying object of human affection and an end which will call forth man's highest activities and ensure
his highest progress.
What does the ontological argument state? - Answers Our thoughts of God imply the existence of God
What does congruity mean? - Answers agreement, harmony or correspondence
What does the existence of laws imply? - Answers The existence of a Lawgiver
What does law in society give evidence of? - Answers God has made man a social creature and placed
within man a desire for law and order
What are 4 reasons to question evolution? - Answers (1) This theory of evolution, though often
presented as an established fact, is up to the present time only an unverified hypothesis.
What point does the author illustrate with an elephant and 4 blind men? - Answers 4 men touched the
same elephant but came up with 4 different views (based on personal experience and described what
they experienced) The failure to see the whole elephant resulted in a defective description
Do Moslem leaders claim that Christianity and Islam are alike in that Allah was "the God and Father of
our Lord Jesus Christ?" - Answers No
What are the 4 questions that Darwinians have not been able to answer? - Answers 1. Where is the
missing link?
2. How can man evolve to be the highest of living beings if mutations are degenerative and result in
inferior derivations?
3. Where does life originate?
4. Is there well balanced data that shows whether or not there was an intelligent design in creation?
What question did the old Presbyterian catechism address first? - Answers What is the chief end of
man? (to glorify God and enjoy Him forever)
What do Christians believe the source of suffering to be? - Answers conditions in this world, not from
God
What two reasons does the author suggest that we can know that Christianity actually explains life as
we know it? - Answers 1. Christianity is a consistent belief system (answers all the questions of life and
all the answers perfectly correspond with one another)
2. Christianity is a belief system that provides satisfying life systems for all who follow Jesus (no matter
sex, financial status, age or culture)
What is Revelation? - Answers Revelation is the act whereby God gives us knowledge about Himself
which we could not otherwise know.
What is inspiration? - Answers Inspiration is the supernatural guidance of the writers of Scripture by the
Spirit of God whereby they wrote the divine Word of God, transcribed accurately and reliably.
What is inerrancy? - Answers Inerrancy recognizes that what God revealed and inspired is accurate,
reliable, authoritative and without error.
What is the Canon? - Answers The Canon is the standard by which the sixty-six books in the Bible and
their content were determined and the basis upon which they were included in Scripture
What is hermeneutics? - Answers Hermeneutics is the science of biblical interpretation
, What is illumination? - Answers Illumination is the work of the Holy Spirit in helping the believer
understand and apply the spiritual meaning of the Scriptures.
What does Hebrews 1:1-2 teach about divine revelation? - Answers Divine revelation is also progressive.
God spoke both "in time past unto the fathers by the prophets" and "hath in these last days spoken unto
us by his Son" (Heb. 1:1-2). Revelation was progressive not in the sense that prior facts (i.e., Old
Testament) were false, but rather that they were incomplete.
What are the two areas of revelation? - Answers natural and special, 1. General (Natural) Revelation
2. Special Revelation
What is natural revelation? - Answers The process which God makes himself known to human reason
through the created world.
What is special revelation? - Answers Special revelation is the self-revelation of God through the
Scriptures and finalized in Jesus Christ and relates to God's plan of salvation for man.
What is reason? - Answers Reason is the intellectual and moral faculties of man as exercised in the
pursuit of truth apart from supernatural aid.
What does the Cosmological argument state? - Answers Nature reveals God's power and Godhead
What does the Teleological argument state? - Answers Design in the universe reveals a designer
What does the Anthropological argument state? - Answers Human nature reveals a personal God.
What does the Anthropological argument reason? - Answers 1. Man's intellectual and moral nature
must have had for its author an intellectual and moral being
2. Man's moral nature proves the existence of a holy Lawgiver and Judge.
3. Man's emotional and voluntary nature proves the existence of a Being who can furnish in himself a
satisfying object of human affection and an end which will call forth man's highest activities and ensure
his highest progress.
What does the ontological argument state? - Answers Our thoughts of God imply the existence of God
What does congruity mean? - Answers agreement, harmony or correspondence
What does the existence of laws imply? - Answers The existence of a Lawgiver
What does law in society give evidence of? - Answers God has made man a social creature and placed
within man a desire for law and order
What are 4 reasons to question evolution? - Answers (1) This theory of evolution, though often
presented as an established fact, is up to the present time only an unverified hypothesis.
