Religion Test 1
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sabrinam26 on February 10, 2011
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Fundamental questions | basic, important questions about life which turn us toward God |
| Faith | enables us to believe in God (theological virtue) |
| Hope | leads us to a desire for heaven and helps us trust in God's promises (theological virtue) |
| Love | is the greatest of all and helps us love God and others (theological virtue) |
| Monotheist | belief in one god |
| Polytheist | belief in many gods |
| Theist | belief in a personal god |
| Deist | belief in an impersonal god |
| Agnostic | one who is not sure or maybe doesn't care if God exists |
| Pantheist | believe everything is god |
| Unique | no other, one of a kind |
| Infinite | everywhere and unlimited |
| Omnipotent | all powerful |
| Eternal | always was and always will be |
| Immutable | does not change |
| Pure spirit | not material |
| Personal | acts, loves and is involved with creation |
| Idealism | only sees the positive side of things |
| Optimism | sees the positive side of things first |
| Realism | sees things exactly as they are |
| Pessimism | sees things negatively first |
| Cynicism | only sees the negative side of things |
| Choleric | positive: aggressive; negative: hot tempered |
| Sanguine | positive: cheerful, confident; negative: too easygoing about serious things |
| Melancholic | positive: reflective, pensive, and a listener; negative: moody and feeling superior |
| Phlegmatic | positive: calm, peaceful; negative: lazy, apathetic |
| Uncaused cause | states that there had to be a first cause that caused everything else |
| Gradation | if there's a better then there must be a best |
| Transcendent | apart and different from creation |
| Immanent | he's close to and apart from his creation |
| Different kinds of bible literature | poetry, songs, stories, history, letters, religious morals |
| First book of the Torah | Genesis |
| Second book of the Torah | Exodus |
| Third book of the Torah | Leviticus |
| Fourth book of the Torah | Numbers |
| Fifth book of the Torah | Deuteronomy |
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