APOL 220 Quiz 1,2,3,4

APOL 220 Quiz 1,2,3,4

APOL 220 Quiz 1,2,3,4

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APOL 220 Quiz 1 Liberty University

APOL 220 Quiz Apologetics in the Bible

1. The what of your apologetic response to others is far more important than how one presents reasons and arguments.
2. Life in the church, that is, the way the church lives together, is meant to be a witness to the reality of God
3. To maintain a balanced view of the Old Testament, one must remember the prophets spoke not only against the culture of their day, but also with and for
4. In 1 Kings 18, when Elijah challenges the prophets of Baal, this is an example of which apologetic type?
5. Persecuted and afflicted believers are not persevering in vain, because God has a glorious plan for their future. This is an example of which apologetic category?
6. According to Psalm 19:1–6, the heavens act as an apologist for God! This is an example of which apologetic type?
7. This statement “In the Old Testament world, the primary question was not whether or not a god or gods existed, but which god was true” highlights which apologetic type in Chapter 1?
8. In the context of polemics, the biblical creation account speaks _________ the surrounding culture, defending its view of creation against the prevailing cosmological narratives
9. In their personal testimonies about apologetics, both authors always had a positive view of it and its functionality in ministry.
10. A defensive apologetic is a response to some contention a person may have towards Christianity or a reason why he/she does not believe Christianity is true.
11. The Bible often uses questions as a rhetorical device in order to disarm false beliefs
12. We are given true knowledge of God through nature but the problem lies not with the revelation of God in nature, but rather with people who suppress and twist the revelation and end up worshipping creation rather than the Creator.
13. In 1 Corinthians 2 Paul alludes to a movement of his day known as sophism. Sophists were rhetoricians who maintained public careers based on their ability to speak and follow oratorical conventions.
14. God’s primary biblical apologetic for suffering is grounded in his own anguish on a cross.
15. In Apologetics at the Cross, the authors use the analogy of building a house to describe their methodology.
16. The authors state that apologetics, in its most basic form, is “the practice of making an appeal and a defense for the Christian faith.”
17. In order to win people to the gospel, Paul was not willing to be flexible in his persuasive efforts.
18. Jesus does contradict the Old Testament’s story but, at the same time, brings it to its intended goal.
19. Other religions in the ancient Near East looked upon natural revelation yet claimed that the sun is itself a manifestation of a god(s).
20. The authors do not think that suffering points to the existence of God.
21. Paul uses pagan sources during his speech at Mars Hill.
22. Many issues which were formerly left to the halls of the academy are now being introduced to the masses, often by skeptics.
23. 1 Peter 3:15 serves as a proof-text for apologetics.
24. The grand biblical narrative moves in what order? new creation-fall-creation-redemption.
25. When understood in its proper context, 1 Corinthians 2:1-5 serves as a proof-text against doing apologetics.

APOL 220 Quiz 2 Liberty University

APOL 220 Quiz 2 Apologetics within the Great Tradition

1. Thomas Aquinas, the most famous and influential theologian/apologist of the Middle Ages, began his apology with Scriptural authority.
2. Which heretical challenge and battle against it persisted into the Middle Ages?
3. Because of the changing cultural landscape and underlying assumptions of the day, it is sometimes necessary to sacrifice the message of the Cross in order to make Christianity more palatable.
4. Tertullian is considered to be one of the earliest of the Latin church fathers and wrote Against Marcion
5. Friedrich Schleiermacher is often called the father of modern liberalism.
6. “Each generation of apologists is forced to think in new ways about apologetics; thus, an apologist in any era must be flexible, innovative, and practical.”
7. “Christians deny reason” and “the Bible can’t be verified as historical” are examples of early cultural/political challenges faced by early Christians.
8. The Apology of Trypho on Behalf of Christians (c.125), written by Trypho, was perhaps the first formal Christian apology written after the composition of the NT books.
9. This nineteenth century philosopher focused not on the historical accuracy or rational proofs of Christianity, but on the level of “God-consciousness“ and social life those beliefs provide:
10. Empiricism asserts that people must look for truth in claims of supernatural or miraculous events rather than in demonstrable data discoverable by the five senses.
11. Gnosticism taught specifically that there was a time when Jesus did not exist
12. Asserting that ultimate authority is found in a person’s own thoughts and feelings rather than in an external entity (such as the church) is defined as:
13. Why would “Paley’s Watchmaker” not be as effective of an argument today as it was in the past?
14. In his work Contra Celsus, Origen offers a point-by-point refutation against the attack that Christianity undermines the structure of society.
15. “Only those with secret, insider knowledge may reach God” is a salient feature of which Early Church heresy?
16. Joseph Butler is sometimes referred to as “the philosopher of Anglicanism” and these three words encapsulate his response to the deists of his time: analogy, probability, and cumulative
17. The following are methods that early church apologists employed to combat opposition, except:
18. The cultural and religious tenets of Islam did not require engagement from Christian apologists until after the Middle Ages.
19. Combinationalism argues that Christianity is logical, factual, and livable- thus asserting that Christianity corresponds to reality while non-Christian worldviews fall short.
20. The Enlightenment celebrated the goodness of human nature and the value of human progress through faith.
21. Who came to faith in Jesus not because of skillful Christian witness, but rather because of the implausible and contradictory accusations of atheists and skeptics?
22. Martin Luther believed that philosophy and reason must yield to the foolishness of the Cross
23. Among the Enlightenment thinkers, who thought that miracles were impossible because they would violate the inviolable laws of nature and contradict reason and that Moses did not write the first five books of the Bible?
24. Among the Enlightenment thinkers, who specifically believed that humans can progress as long as they are guided solely by their own rational thoughts and individual freedom?
25. Anselm is credited as the originator of which classical argument for God’s existence?

APOL 220 Quiz 3 Liberty University

APOL 220 Quiz Methods and Going to the Cross

Covers all Learn materials from Module 3: Week 3.

1. The goal of Presuppositional apologetics is to explicitly undermine a non-Christian’s worldview
2. The Evidential method of apologetics is known as the “two-step method.”
3. According to the chapter, modern Christians have much to learn from the early church regarding what aspect of apologetics?
4. One of the strengths of classical apologetics is that it views humans as primarily thinking beings, singularly focusing on persuasion that appeals cerebrally.
5. One of the strongest arguments for contextualization is that the gospel itself occurred and was recorded in a cultural context. The gospel must always be communicated in a way that the culture understands.
6. The use of the kalam cosmological argument is an example of the application of which apologetic method?
7. This method emphasizes that true Christianity is not reducible to a proposition, rather it is a life and story to be lived out.
8. It must be remembered that apologetic “prooftexts” such as 1 Peter 3:15 and Philippians 1:27 are written to suffering communities; Christian joy and peace even amidst persecution is itself an effective apologetic before unbelievers.
9. T. Wright’s book Simply Christian serves as an example of a soft version of which apologetic type?
10. The gospel announces which of the following?
11. Reformed Epistemology responds to the objection that even if Christianity happens to be true, it would not be rational to believe in it due to a lack of evidence.
12. Apologetics should be seen as a tool to clear debris from the path of unbelievers.
13. True apologetic wisdom is gained by all of the following practices, except:
14. Promoting the development of serious scientific and philosophical evidence for Christianity is the strength of which apologetic method?
15. Adherents of the “soft” versions of their apologetic type are (rightly) resistant to other types of apologetic arguments.
16. Which of these could be considered a weakness of evidence- based approaches to apologetics?
17. According to the authors, part of what the gospel announces is who Jesus is.
18. An important aspect of our apologetic should be holistic service to which of the following:
19. A proponent of hard classical apologetics would insist that a logical argument for theism must precede a historical argument for the resurrection of Jesus.
20. The theologian Kevin Vanhoozer stresses that good apologetics is more about which of the following?
21. One of the weaknesses of Experiential/Narratival apologetics is that it can minimize propositional truths and cognitive appeals.
22. According to the chapter, the Gospel is not the same thing as Apologetics
23. The authors suggest that the best apologetic methods are person- specific.
24. Christian virtues like love, hope, faith, justice, and courage are often not sufficient of a catalyst for apologetic conversations to take place.
25. The warnings of apologetic history and the diversity of apologetic appeals in Scripture remind us of the danger in allowing rigid, extrabiblical conceptual schemes to polarize us too sharply.

APOL 220 Quiz 4 Liberty University

1. Sin does not really affect our reasoning structures (e.g. the way we think and reason).
2. This describes the universally shared internal mechanisms that work to produce basic beliefs.
3. The future glory Christians will have in Christ helps us to carry our cross with bold humility as we live in and engage with the world.
4. God created humans as moral beings but they are not solely responsible for the decisions they make.
5. The biblical usage of the words heart and mind reminds us that we are compartmentalized beings
6. Humans are primarily:
7. Which of the following is not among the laws of basic logic that exist across all cultures?
8. Oftentimes people have to want to believe before they will listen to reasons why they should believe, since it is human nature to change our beliefs to fit our loves.
9. A fruitful analogy offered by the authors to illustrate the relationship between believing, thinking, and desiring as a holistic approach is:
10. According to the authors, if a person rejects God because they can’t understand what he is doing, they are not really rejecting the God presented in the Bible.
11. The biblical usage of the word heart usually refers to which aspects of the human psyche?
12. We are holistic beings who think, believe, and desire.
13. By strong empiricism’s own logic, there is no reason to accept it as true.
14. The two analogies (apologetics of glory and apologist at the cross) were inspired by which Reformer/Theologian?
15. We can only adequately answer the question ‘what am I to do’ if we can answer the prior question ‘Of what story or stories do I find myself a part?’
16. Alvin Plantinga stated that there is no argument which will fully persuade everyone or absolutely prove Christianity.
17. This is what is used in elementary mathematics and in certain assumed rules for communicating and thinking that seem to be universal.
18. According to the authors, doctrines such as the age of the earth and how many times Jesus cleared the temple are among the critically-important core beliefs of the gospel.
19. All of the following C.S. Lewis works appeal primarily to human longing and imagination except:
20. According to Alvin Plantinga, the Spirit can use arguments to do all of the following except:
21. Which philosopher stressed the importance of story by explaining that everyone believes a story about their life and about history itself?
22. Which passage from Proverbs reminds us to resist assuming motives of others, realizing that people are complex and require much discernment when drawing out insight:
23. An apologetic of glory engages others in apologetic encounters in order to achieve:
24. An overview of the Bible shows that it does not offer much more than propositional statements and rules.
25. Which of the following applies to Unrealistic Expectations?