What Kind of a Theologian Are You? On God

You know that

"all those things are to be believed with divine and Catholic faith which are contained in the written or orally transmitted word of God, and which the Church, either by a solemn judgment or by her ordinary and universal magisterium, proposes for belief as having been divinely revealed." (Vatican Council.)

Can you recognize truths which are divine and Catholic faith?

Try the Following Quiz on God.

Give yourself 10 points for each of the 10 questions Which you answer correctly. If you score 95-100, give yourself a SCL (summa cum laude); 90-95, a MCL (magna cum laude); 85-90, a CL (cum laude); 80-85, a BP (bene probatus); 70-80, a P (probatus); 1>-70, a NP (non probatus).

[Answer each "a, b, c, d" with Yes or No]

1. Is it heretical to say that the one true God cannot be known

a) with certainty;
b) by the natural light of human reason;
c) through created things?

2. Who said: "...since the creation of the world his invisible attributes are clearly seen...his everlasting power also and divinity - being understood through the things that are made. And so they are without excuse"?

3. Human reason is unable to know that God exists without the supernatural help of

a) actual grace;
b) faith;
c) sanctifying grace;
d) revelation.

4. By natural reason alone man is able to know that God is

a) spiritual;
b) im­mutable;
c) infinite;
d) omnipotent;
e) triune.

5. Who said: "We see now through a mirror in an obscure manner; but then face to face. Now I know in part; but then I shall know even as I have been known"?

6. It is of divine and Catholic faith that in the beatific vision the blessed see

a) the divine essence;
b) God as He is;
c) the three divine persons;
d) all crea­tures.

7. The blessed see God

a) with their bodily eyes;
b) intuitively;
c) comprehensively;
d) unequally, according to the diversity of their merits.

8. To have the beatific vision souls need the light of glory.

9. Is it of divine Catholic faith that the one true living God is

a) omnipotent, eternal, immense, incomprehensible;
b) infinite in intelligence and will and all perfection;
c) ineffably exalted and supremely happy?

10. St. Paul said:

a) "God will have all men to be saved, and to come to the knowl­eedge of the truth"; b) "For there is one God, and one mediator of God and men, the man Christ Jesus."

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Answers tomorrow...

Adapted from The Queen's Work Magazine, October 1947