A Questionnaire
Speaker Notes
A Questionnaire (Peter Kreeft, March 5, 1998) Column 2 Column 3
1. What is the meaning of life?
What is your ultimate end or goal?
2. Who are you? What is your real identity?
3. What is truth?
4. What is life?
5. What is death?
6. Who do you consider the greatest living person in the world today?
7. Name the person you first turn to for help when some practical, worldly problem arises (money, job, alcoholism)
8. What would you tell a friend who is dying?
9. What is wisdom?
10. How can I, who am evil and unrighteous, become good and righteous?
How can I become a saint?
11. Why did God make the universe? For what?
12. How can I, a mere man, know God?
13. How much of God can we know?
14. What is the kerygma, the proclamation, the gospel that Christians proclaim?
15. What was the last command from the last apostle?
16. Why are my Column 2 answers different from those in Column 3?
1. Paul’s Letter to the Ephesians 4:13
13until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.
2. Paul’s Letter to the Colossians 3:3
3For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.
3. & 4. John 14:6
6Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
5. Paul’s Letter to the Philippians 1:21
21For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.
6. Luke 24:5b
5b”Why do you look for the living among the dead?
7. Paul’s Letter to the Philippians 4:19
19And my God will meet all your needs according to his glorious riches in Jesus Christ.
8. John 11:25
25Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies;
9. Paul’s First Letter to the Corinthians 1:23-24
23but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, 24but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.
10. Paul’s First Letter to the Corinthians 1:30
30It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God – that is, our righteousness, holiness and redemption.
11. Paul’s Letter to the Colossians 1:16
16For by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and for him.
12. John 14:9
9Jesus answered: “Don’t you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father.
John 1:18
18No one has ever seen God, but God the One and Only, who is at the Father’s side, has made him known.
13. Paul’s Letter to the Colossians 1:19
19For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him,
14. Paul’s First Letter to the Corinthians 1:23
23but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles,
15. 1 John 5:21
21Dear children, keep yourselves from idols.
Peter Kreeft, Ph.D., is a professor of philosophy at Boston College wikipedia personal website