THEO 201 Final Exam questions and
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The Deity of Christ - answers✔✔What is the most decisive, foundational doctrine in
Christianity?
No - answers✔✔Did Jesus ever say "I am God"?
For the first time a human, Thomas the disciple, declares Jesus as Lord. (My Lord and my God) -
answers✔✔What happens in John 20:28?
He claimed to be...
1. Coexistent with God
2. Coequal with God
3. Coeternal, coessence - answers✔✔What three claims of Jesus show that He spoke with
authority?
exact same essence - answers✔✔What does homousia mean?
"My angels" "my kingdom" - answers✔✔Jesus indirectly identified himself as the second person
of the trinity by using possessive pronouns. An example would be...
Yes - answers✔✔Did Jesus prove his authority by forgiving sins?
,John, Paul, and the author of Hebrews - answers✔✔Who are the three main apostolic
witnesses of Christ's deity?
- John's Christology is cosmic
- He affirms simple monotheism (NOT modalistic monarchism) - answers✔✔Describe John's
view of Christ's deity
- He is LORD = YHWH
- He created all things
- He is judge of the living and the dead
- Everything is held together in Christ
- He is the express image of an invisible God - answers✔✔Describe Pauls view of Christ's deity
- The son is superior to everything
- He is an exact representation of God - answers✔✔Describe the author of Hebrews view of
Christ's deity
The resurrection - answers✔✔What act established the Lordship of Christ?
God the Father raised Jesus from the dead - answers✔✔What does Romans 1:4 say?
He believed that if we examined Jesus in the context of Jewish culture that we would see that
he is one with God. ("If you go back and examine what was happening, you can't help but see
how Jesus claimed and was God") - answers✔✔What did Walfhart Pannenburg believe about
the deity of Christ?
1. Ebionism
2. Arianism
, 3. Functional Christology - answers✔✔What are the three heresies related to the deity of
Christ?
- Jewish cult
- Held that Jesus was a supernatural man but not God - answers✔✔Describe Ebionism
- Arias thought that Christ was the "first created"
- Today arianism is alive in Jehovahs witnesses - answers✔✔Describe Arianism
- emphasized what Jesus did rather than who he was - answers✔✔Describe Functional
Christology
The humanity of Christ - answers✔✔Which doctrine was never as much of an issue compared
to the deity of Christ?
No
- The common man agrees
- historians agree
- other religions agree - answers✔✔Was Jesus' humanity contested?
Mind, emotion, will (MEW) - answers✔✔What defines personhood?
suffering and death - answers✔✔What is the litmus test for humanity?
- he was born of a woman
- he had human ancestry
- he grew in stature and knowledge
complete resolved solutions
The Deity of Christ - answers✔✔What is the most decisive, foundational doctrine in
Christianity?
No - answers✔✔Did Jesus ever say "I am God"?
For the first time a human, Thomas the disciple, declares Jesus as Lord. (My Lord and my God) -
answers✔✔What happens in John 20:28?
He claimed to be...
1. Coexistent with God
2. Coequal with God
3. Coeternal, coessence - answers✔✔What three claims of Jesus show that He spoke with
authority?
exact same essence - answers✔✔What does homousia mean?
"My angels" "my kingdom" - answers✔✔Jesus indirectly identified himself as the second person
of the trinity by using possessive pronouns. An example would be...
Yes - answers✔✔Did Jesus prove his authority by forgiving sins?
,John, Paul, and the author of Hebrews - answers✔✔Who are the three main apostolic
witnesses of Christ's deity?
- John's Christology is cosmic
- He affirms simple monotheism (NOT modalistic monarchism) - answers✔✔Describe John's
view of Christ's deity
- He is LORD = YHWH
- He created all things
- He is judge of the living and the dead
- Everything is held together in Christ
- He is the express image of an invisible God - answers✔✔Describe Pauls view of Christ's deity
- The son is superior to everything
- He is an exact representation of God - answers✔✔Describe the author of Hebrews view of
Christ's deity
The resurrection - answers✔✔What act established the Lordship of Christ?
God the Father raised Jesus from the dead - answers✔✔What does Romans 1:4 say?
He believed that if we examined Jesus in the context of Jewish culture that we would see that
he is one with God. ("If you go back and examine what was happening, you can't help but see
how Jesus claimed and was God") - answers✔✔What did Walfhart Pannenburg believe about
the deity of Christ?
1. Ebionism
2. Arianism
, 3. Functional Christology - answers✔✔What are the three heresies related to the deity of
Christ?
- Jewish cult
- Held that Jesus was a supernatural man but not God - answers✔✔Describe Ebionism
- Arias thought that Christ was the "first created"
- Today arianism is alive in Jehovahs witnesses - answers✔✔Describe Arianism
- emphasized what Jesus did rather than who he was - answers✔✔Describe Functional
Christology
The humanity of Christ - answers✔✔Which doctrine was never as much of an issue compared
to the deity of Christ?
No
- The common man agrees
- historians agree
- other religions agree - answers✔✔Was Jesus' humanity contested?
Mind, emotion, will (MEW) - answers✔✔What defines personhood?
suffering and death - answers✔✔What is the litmus test for humanity?
- he was born of a woman
- he had human ancestry
- he grew in stature and knowledge
