Quiz - The Biblical Record - My Compass Classroom

What is the doctrine of creation?

The mystery of creation; we cannot know what truly happened
Refers to nature as a source of revelation
Used to compare to other creation legends throughout history
Refers to God’s acts of creating out of nothing everything that exists in the heavens and the earth

The doctrine of creation reveals which important aspects about God? (choose 4)

He is transcendent
He is immanent
He is finite
He is omnipotent
He has complete freedom
He is defined by His creation

What do the biblical authors say about creation?

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Why is faith important to understanding creation?

This biblical author tells us that God made the world just using His words, bringing everything into existence from nothing
Faith is trusting that God’s word is powerful, and that what He has told us is accurate
Anyone who can create everything out of nothing has absolute power. He can therefore be absolutely trusted
Creation is something far beyond our experience and comprehension. Furthermore, God’s act of creating was a way of revealing Himself
The power of faith does not come from inside a person, but from the dependability and power of the person being trusted

How is a faith based on accepting the reality of God’s actions in history different from blind faith?

This biblical author tells us that God made the world just using His words, bringing everything into existence from nothing
Faith is trusting that God’s word is powerful, and that what He has told us is accurate
Anyone who can create everything out of nothing has absolute power. He can therefore be absolutely trusted
Creation is something far beyond our experience and comprehension. Furthermore, God’s act of creating was a way of revealing Himself
The power of faith does not come from inside a person, but from the dependability and power of the person being trusted

Some people have said that God created the universe out of pre-existing materials. Does Scripture speak to that question?

This biblical author tells us that God made the world just using His words, bringing everything into existence from nothing
Faith is trusting that God’s word is powerful, and that what He has told us is accurate
Anyone who can create everything out of nothing has absolute power. He can therefore be absolutely trusted
Creation is something far beyond our experience and comprehension. Furthermore, God’s act of creating was a way of revealing Himself

What is the relationship between faith and God’s power?

This biblical author tells us that God made the world just using His words, bringing everything into existence from nothing
Faith is trusting that God’s word is powerful, and that what He has told us is accurate
Anyone who can create everything out of nothing has absolute power. He can therefore be absolutely trusted
Creation is something far beyond our experience and comprehension. Furthermore, God’s act of creating was a way of revealing Himself
The power of faith does not come from inside a person, but from the dependability and power of the person being trusted

Why does the doctrine of creation always need to rely on the miraculous acts of God?

This biblical author tells us that God made the world just using His words, bringing everything into existence from nothing
Faith is trusting that God’s word is powerful, and that what He has told us is accurate
Anyone who can create everything out of nothing has absolute power. He can therefore be absolutely trusted
Creation is something far beyond our experience and comprehension. Furthermore, God’s act of creating was a way of revealing Himself
The power of faith does not come from inside a person, but from the dependability and power of the person being trusted

If God is all-powerful, He could have created the world and rested in any amount of time. Why does He make a connection between the creation week and seven days?

God chose to create and rest in seven normal days to provide us the for our weekly cycle. God reveals the basic connection between our weekly cycle and the creation week in the fourth commandment about keeping the .

God’s original creation was very good. It was created not only for our benefit and use but for the benefit of all living creatures, for His glory.

True
False

The parallel literary pattern of three days of forming and three days of filling is quite intentional.

True
False

There is so much similarity between Eden, the tabernacle, and “the heavenly things” because they were all designed by the same Designer to be:

Artistically interesting
His dwelling place with man
All of the above
None of the above

Can history be both literal and symbolic?

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What are 3 basic problems that arise when interpretations attempt to de-historicize various sections of Genesis?

Modern interpreters do not replace the record in Genesis with another history
Modern commentators do not provide any clear consensus as to where to draw the line between what is only theological and what is theological-historical
The witness of other inspired authors creates a significant problem for modern interpretations that seek to separate the theological and the historical
Modern theologians use the New Testament to help interpret the Old Testament passages

In the Old Testament, the prophet Isaiah provides more than sufficient evidence that the theology and history of Genesis are inseparably joined

True
False

What are 2 conditions that make Hebraists confident that the word yom means a literal, 24-hour day in Genesis 1?

Modified by the cardinal numbers ‘one,’ ‘two,’ ‘three,’ ‘four,’ ‘five,’ and ‘six’
Alongside the nouns ‘morning’ and ‘evening’
The total number of times the word is used in the text

What clues from usage and context from Genesis and the rest of the Old Testament tell us that the word ‘day’ is literal in the creation accounts?

The use of the term ‘day’ in Genesis 2:4 is figurative, but in Genesis 1 figurative language is not used
Numerous statements in Exodus that compare the duration of God’s creation to something already familiar to the enslaved Hebrews: one week of seven days
Other places in Scripture use a first, a second, a third day, etc., just as sharply separated and nevertheless describe periods of time
All of the above

Genesis provides what one would expect at the beginning of a universal history: a record of what actually happened in the beginning

True
False

The primary rationale to de-historicize Genesis is to:

Impose an alien concept, a hermeneutical concept, to the text
Undermine the entirety of the gospel
Be more exclusive of other Christians’ beliefs

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