7. Theocracy

Question 1

Ascribing

Answer 1

To give credit or honor to the source

Question 2

Caliph

Answer 2

A supreme leader of the Islamic community and successor of the Prophet Muhammad

Question 3

Commonwealth

Answer 3

A republic; a nation governed by the people

Question 4

Josephus

Answer 4

Jewish historian who lived shortly after Jesus walked the earth

Question 5

Muhammad

Answer 5

Founder of Islam whose prophetic teachings became the basis of Islamic civilization

Question 6

Sharia

Answer 6

The religious and moral principles of Islam

Question 7

Submissive

Answer 7

To surrender to the authority of another

Question 8

Theocracy

Answer 8

A government ruled by religious authority

Question 9

A theocracy is?

Answer 9

A nation on under the rule of God

Question 10

In a theocracy, the laws are seen as?

Answer 10

Divine commands

Question 11

Democracy

Answer 11

Could be seen as a society for under the rule of man

Question 12

____ is recognized as the head

Answer 12

God

Question 13

The laws of the commonwealth are?

Answer 13

The commandments of God

Question 14

The power of the church is greater than that if the?

Answer 14

State

Question 15

There are no ____ votes or ____

Answer 15

Popular, referendums

Question 16

Israel

Answer 16

There were no polls or public opinion surveys in order to sway God’s thinking

God’s dictates were the complete laws of the land

Question 17

As we read in Exodus?

Answer 17

Moses was blessed- and punished- by God based on his obedience or disobedience

Question 18

Josephus

Answer 18

Historian who wrote about theocracy for the first time

Question 19

Judges 8:23

Answer 19

Gideon refuses to accept kingship offered by the people after his victory over the Midianites

Question 20

1 Samuel 12

Answer 20

Tells of prophet Samuel’s displeasure over the nation’s desire for a monarchy

Question 21

Jim Jones in Guyana in late 1970s

Answer 21

Led hundreds of people into mass suicide

Question 22

Constantine of the Byzantine Empire

Answer 22

Required everyone to be “Christians”, regardless of whether they gave their hearts and lives over to Jesus

Question 23

A theocracy does not necessarily mean a nation that?

Answer 23

Follows the God of the Bible

Question 24

Under Muhammad, the Islamic state was?

Answer 24

A theocracy with the Sharia as the law of the land

Question 25

When Muhammad died in A.D. 632?

Answer 25

A group of Islamic leaders elected Abu Bakr, the prophet’s father-in-law, to be the leader

Question 26

______ became the second caliph in 634 and Islam expanded into?

Answer 26

Umar I, Egypt, Syria, Iraq, and northern Mesopotamia

Question 27

This theocracy was not?

Answer 27

Biblical, nor did its followers follow the teachings of the Jehovah God