THEISM, EVOLUTION, JOB, ECCLESIASTES

Victory Baptist Church Bible Institute, VBCBI

3RD YEAR, FIRST SEMESTER

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CREATION, JOB, ECCLESIASTES

1. What do theists say is eternal, moral, and intelligent and created the Universe?

 2. What do atheists say is eternal, a-moral, in-cognitive, random and resulted in the universe's existence?

 3. What do the two theories of beginnings have in common?

 4. What does the "Big Bang" theory of evolution teach eternally existed?

 5. What is the difference between evolution and speciation?

 6. Can the theory of "simple-to-complex" be demonstrated, observed or proven?

 7. Can the theory of cross-phyla from simple to complex be demonstrated, observed or proven?

 8. Can "non-intelligence to intelligence" be proven at any level?

 9. Which of these two theories of beginnings requires more faith?

 10. What does theistic evolution teach about beginnings?

 11. What does theistic creationism teach about beginnings?

 12. What do most Fundamentalists teach about beginnings?

 13. What does Scofield teach about beginnings?

 14. How many times does "vanity, vanities"

and "under the sun" occur in Ecclesiastes?

 15. How many times does "vanity" occur in Job?

 16. What are "vanity" and "under the sun" repeated so often?

 17. How much truth does mankind observe under the sun?

 18. Is everything in Ecclesiastes true?

 19. Why is Ecclesiastes 9:1-6 both right and wrong?

 20. What is the final conclusion of Ecclesiastes from its last chapter?

 21. is everything Job's friends say wrong?

 22. Is everything Job says correct?

 23. How does God begin speaking to Job in 38:2?

 24. Does God ever answer Job's questions about why he suffered so much?

 25. What do Job and Ecclesiastes tell us about Old Testament mankind?

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ANSWERS: JOB, ECCLESIASTES, CREATION, VBCBI

1. Almighty Eternal Intelligent God

2. an extremely small speck of matter

3. Both begin with something eternal.

4. The extremely small speck of matter.

5. Evolution teaches that all things began simple and became complex by random chance and changed into all living mater.

Speciation teaches that the major kinds (phyla) were created as such and change only occurs within a species.

6. no

7. no

8. no

9.  It takes more faith to believe that non-intelligent, a-moral, randomness resulted in a life and intelligence.

10. "Theistic evolution" says God exists and uses evolution to create everything.

11. "Theistic creationism" teaches that God creates kinds (phyla) instantly but uses long periods of time for speciation.

12. Most Fundamentalists teach that God created the Universe and Earth in six (6) literal days.

13.Scofield is a mixture of theistic creationism and Fundamentalism. God created phyla instantaneously and used long periods of time for speciation for the first creation which was destroyed between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2. The creation account in from Genesis 1:3 is a 6-day literal re-creation covering about 6,000 years.

14. "Vanity" and "vanity of vanities" occur 34 times in Ecclesiastes. "Under the sun" occurs 30 times

1:2 (3x); [1:9]; 1:14; [1:14] 2:1, 11, [2:11], 15, 17, [2:17], [2:18] 19, [2:19], [2:20], 21, [2:22], 23, 26; [3:16], 3:19; [4:1], [4:3], 4:4, 7, [4:7], 8, [4:15], 16; 5:7, 10; [5:13], [5:18], [6:1], 6:2, 4, [6:5], 9, 11, [6:12]; 7:6, [7:11], 15; [8:9], 8:10, 14, 14, [8:15], [8:15], [8:17]; [9:3], [9:6], 9:9, [9:9], [9:9], [9:11],[9:13]; [10:5], 11:8, 10; 12:8 (3x)

15. Vanity 7x.

16. They reflect the futility of mankind to understand the full truth of anything apart from special divine revelation.

17. Unenlightened man understands a lot of truth from nature and conscience simply by "being" and nature.

18. Not at all. Much is correct; much is wrong.

19. Ecclesiastes 9:1-6 is right as seen by unenlightened man; it is wrong biblically.

20. Eccl 12:13 Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. 14 For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.

21. Not at all.

22. Not at all. Even unenlightened man is often correct when observing life.

23. Job 38:2 Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?

24. no

25. As inspired books of the Bible, Job and Ecclesiastes give us a correct view of how and why Old Testament man looked at life without special revelation from God.