Apologetics Test Questions and Answers 2023 Complete
What is the Greek word that provides the textual foundation for what is called
"Apologetics"?
apologia
What does Peter instruct his readers to do?
Always be ready to provide an oral defense for why they are a believer in Christ
What is the first purpose of apologetics?
Validate the truth of Christianity
What is the second purpose of apologetics?
Seek to save the lost
What is the third purpose of apologetics?
Strengthen the church
What is the fourth purpose of apologetics?
Refute error
According to the documentary, "Mining for God", what are two key ideas, deeply
permeating culture, competing against Christianity?
Naturalism: science and reason are all we need to discover truth
Relativism: there can be no truth except for your own truth
T/F: Christianity believes that we can adequately and truly know, because God
has created us in his image and has revealed both generally and specifically
True
The Logical Syllogism...
Whatever begins to exist has a cause
The universe began to exist
Therefore the universe has a cause
Is known as the ___________ argument
a. Teleological
b. Cosmological
c. Epistemological
d. Moral
B
On what can most religions (worldviews) agree?
a. every religion leads to the same god
b. the world is broken and needs to be fixed
c. Christianity is the one true religion
d. we all live in an impersonal universe
B
From the documentary "Mining for God" what is the most important apologetic of
an authentic Christianity?
God came in the flesh in the person of Jesus Christ to ransom (redeem) this world. The
test of the truth of Christianity is the resurrection of Jesus. Our role is to respond to the
story, find our place in the story, and live out the story
Objective Moral Values
, valid and binding independent of opinion
Subjective Moral Values
expressions of personal taste
Can there be good without God?
Without God as a transcendent anchor for moral values and duties, there is no objective
right and wrong. Everything becomes socially and culturally relative. In a universe
without God, good and evil do not exist
Moral Evil
Evil that is the result of human choices
Natural Evil
Evil where there is no human will involved
Maximum Evil
Gratuitous evil, innocent suffering
Approaching the Problem of Evil: The Logical Side
Proposition 1: if God were all-good, he would destroy evil
Proposition 2: If God were all-powerful, he could destroy evil
Proposition 3: Evil has not been destroyed
Conclusion: There is no all-good, all-powerful God
Approaching the Problem of Evil: The Personal Side
Why did God allow that evil to happen to me?
How other worldviews deal with evil and suffering
Naturalism
The physical world is all there is
There is no real evil, only bad luck
Evil has no meaning
How other worldviews deal with evil and suffering
Transcendentalism
Physical world is an illusion
Evil is an illusion
Evil is the result of karmic debt
How other worldviews deal with evil and suffering
Theism
God allowed evil in the world for his own purposes
God foreordained evil in the world for his own purposes
Fideism
a "faith" position faith is in some sense independent of, if not outright adversarial
toward, reason
Illusionism
Evil does not exist
Finitism
God is beyond moral categories
Biblical Resolution
A view of the past
God's creation was very good (Gen 1)
Human responsibility is an essential component of true humanity (Gen 2)
We are not good (Gen 3)
What is the Greek word that provides the textual foundation for what is called
"Apologetics"?
apologia
What does Peter instruct his readers to do?
Always be ready to provide an oral defense for why they are a believer in Christ
What is the first purpose of apologetics?
Validate the truth of Christianity
What is the second purpose of apologetics?
Seek to save the lost
What is the third purpose of apologetics?
Strengthen the church
What is the fourth purpose of apologetics?
Refute error
According to the documentary, "Mining for God", what are two key ideas, deeply
permeating culture, competing against Christianity?
Naturalism: science and reason are all we need to discover truth
Relativism: there can be no truth except for your own truth
T/F: Christianity believes that we can adequately and truly know, because God
has created us in his image and has revealed both generally and specifically
True
The Logical Syllogism...
Whatever begins to exist has a cause
The universe began to exist
Therefore the universe has a cause
Is known as the ___________ argument
a. Teleological
b. Cosmological
c. Epistemological
d. Moral
B
On what can most religions (worldviews) agree?
a. every religion leads to the same god
b. the world is broken and needs to be fixed
c. Christianity is the one true religion
d. we all live in an impersonal universe
B
From the documentary "Mining for God" what is the most important apologetic of
an authentic Christianity?
God came in the flesh in the person of Jesus Christ to ransom (redeem) this world. The
test of the truth of Christianity is the resurrection of Jesus. Our role is to respond to the
story, find our place in the story, and live out the story
Objective Moral Values
, valid and binding independent of opinion
Subjective Moral Values
expressions of personal taste
Can there be good without God?
Without God as a transcendent anchor for moral values and duties, there is no objective
right and wrong. Everything becomes socially and culturally relative. In a universe
without God, good and evil do not exist
Moral Evil
Evil that is the result of human choices
Natural Evil
Evil where there is no human will involved
Maximum Evil
Gratuitous evil, innocent suffering
Approaching the Problem of Evil: The Logical Side
Proposition 1: if God were all-good, he would destroy evil
Proposition 2: If God were all-powerful, he could destroy evil
Proposition 3: Evil has not been destroyed
Conclusion: There is no all-good, all-powerful God
Approaching the Problem of Evil: The Personal Side
Why did God allow that evil to happen to me?
How other worldviews deal with evil and suffering
Naturalism
The physical world is all there is
There is no real evil, only bad luck
Evil has no meaning
How other worldviews deal with evil and suffering
Transcendentalism
Physical world is an illusion
Evil is an illusion
Evil is the result of karmic debt
How other worldviews deal with evil and suffering
Theism
God allowed evil in the world for his own purposes
God foreordained evil in the world for his own purposes
Fideism
a "faith" position faith is in some sense independent of, if not outright adversarial
toward, reason
Illusionism
Evil does not exist
Finitism
God is beyond moral categories
Biblical Resolution
A view of the past
God's creation was very good (Gen 1)
Human responsibility is an essential component of true humanity (Gen 2)
We are not good (Gen 3)
