Deck 9: Trinitarian Debate

Question 1

What is the doctrine of the Trinity?

A) God has three natures in one manifestation
B) God is three persons with one nature
C) There are three Gods
D) God is composed of three separate parts

Answer 1

B

Question 2

What was the driving force behind the development of the doctrine of the Trinity?

A) The polytheism of their Roman culture
B) The Greek concepts of person and substance
C) Their experience of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit as divine
D) All of the above

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Which of the following is true regarding the Trinity?

A) The Didache uses the three-fold formula: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit
B) The word "Trinity" is not in the Bible
C) The early Christians acknowledge all three of the persons of the Trinity as divine.
D) All of the above.

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Monarchists emphasized what?

A) Jesus as the only Son
B) The oneness of God
C) One judgment for all people
D) One holy apostolic faith.

Question 5

Economists:

A) The threeness of God
B) The unity of the Church and the state
C) The legitimacy of house churches
D) Jesus was an adopted son of God.

Question 6

According to Modalism:

A) Ultimate Reality manifests in different modes according to religion
B) Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are three modes of the one God
C) each of the persons of the Trinity could adopt different modes of being
D) you can clearly distinguish between the three persons of the Trinity.

Question 7

Why is Patripassionism a problem for Modalists?

A) If Christ was born of a virgin, there could be no Father
B) If Father and Son are separate, there can be no Holy Spirit
C) It implies polytheism
D) If Christ is identical with the Father, then when Christ suffered and died then the Father suffered and died.

Question 8

Which of the Church Fathers was instrumental in the development of the doctrine of the Trinity?

A) Sabellius
B) Paul of Samosata
C) Tertullian
D) Valentinus

Question 9

Athanasius argued that

A) the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are the same person
B) the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are of the same essence
C) the divinity of the Holy Spirit is not essential
D) Jesus, while eternal, was a creation of the Father.

Question 10

According to the Cappadocian Fathers, what makes the three persons of the Trinity truly one in nature?

A) Their simplicity
B) Their unity
C) Their indivisibility
D) All of the above.