Friday, August 3, 2012

Quiz on Revelation



Test I. Identify the following:

1. The Latin word for “revelation” and its meaning

2. The secret core and sanctuary of man

3. The first way in which God revealed Himself in the world

4. These are human events which God’s presence and action can be discerned and judged.

5. God’s perfect, final, complete and irrevocable revelation in the world

6. These refer to the principles or elements of goodness, truth, and beauty found in other religions.

7. It simply refers to God’s personal loving communication of Himself and His plan to men.

8. The saint who is famous of his defense of God’s existence through the use of reason                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                

9. A literature of faith written in different languages

Test II. Write the word AWAKE if the statement is true and ASLEEP if it is false.

1. As the Magisterium, the Church receives a divine mandate with the help of the Holy Spirit to interpret,teach, and guard faithfully the deposit of faith.

2. The Sacred Scriptures contain all God’s revelation.

3. In natural revelation, God communicates Himself through creation seen and known through reason.

4. The Sacred Tradition refers to the process by which God’s revelation in Christ is communicated to us.

5. To obey the dictates of our conscience reflects our very dignity as human persons.

6. By revealing Himself to us, God is calling us all to a loving fellowship with Him.

7. Revelation takes place in and through human experience, but not all human experience is revelation.

8. All experience of God is mediated in or channeled through created universe, persons, places and nature but most of all in Jesus Christ.

9. When we say that the Sacred Scripture is the norm for understanding and interpreting revelation, it simply means that no subsequent revelation can contradict what God has revealed in the Bible.

10. Since revelation is an ongoing God’s action in the world, private revelation continues to add or improve God’s revelation in Jesus Christ.

11. If St. Faustina is to Divine Mercy, St. Mary Margaret Alacoque is to Sacred Heart of Jesus.

12. If St. Catherine Laboure is to Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal, St. Bernadette is to Our Lady of Fatima.

13. Visions, prophecy and apparitions are common examples of the signs of the times.

14. By revealing Himself, God wishes to make us capable of responding to Him, and of knowing Him, and of loving Him far beyond our own natural capacity.

15. God has revealed and continues to reveal Himself in other religious traditions, even non-Christian ones.                                                                                                



Test IV. Give the following:

(2) The deposit of faith or divine revelation

(5) Five Ways to prove and defend God’s existence through the use of reason.

(3) Examples of Natural Revelation

(3) Examples of Supernatural Revelation

(2) Two Main Parts of the Sacred Scriptures   

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