017. QUESTIONS ON CHAPTER 6.

QUESTIONS ON CHAPTER 6.

1. In what sense is creation properly understood?

2. How did the pagan philosophers understand it?

3. How is the eternity of matter shown to be absurd?

4. How may the eternity of the world, in its organized state, be disproved?

5. What is the date of creation, according to the Septuagint?

6. What, according to the Hebrew, shown by Bishop Usher?

7. Which chronology is the most probably correct?

8. What philosophical objection is started to the Mosaic date?

9. How may it be refuted?

10. What are the objections to understanding the “six days” mentioned by Moses, literally?

11. What are the arguments for the literal interpretation?

12. What are the reasons for supposing that the entire creation of God was not included in the account of Moses?

13. What is the reply to these arguments?

14. May we reasonably suppose creation to be infinite in extent?

15. Why not?

16. In what two classes may the intelligent creation be embraced?

17. In what sense is the term angel to be understood?

18. What two classes of angels are there?

19. What is the evidence that there are fallen angels?

20. How is their apostasy accounted for?

21. What is the nature of their being?

22. What is the evidence that they are unhappy?

23. What is their employment?

24. What is the evidence that they may afflict the body?

25. What is the evidence that they afflict and seduce the soul?

26. What is the nature of their destiny?

27. What is the nature of holy angels?

28. What is the evidence of their intelligence?

29. Of their holiness?

30. Of their activity and strength?

31. Of their happiness?

32. What is the evidence of their agency in the affairs of Providence?

33. What is the proof that they are ministering spirits, in making known the divine will?

34. In watching over and preserving the saints from evil?

35. In conveying them home to heaven?

36. In scenes and events of the last day?