Bible Exam on Units 1-5

Question 1

A questionable practice of the medieval Catholic church was the selling of what?

Answer 1

Indulgences

Question 2

What was God’s most important act?

Answer 2

Jesus

Question 3

What kind of institutions were begun in America for the training of ministers?

Answer 3

Colleges

Question 4

What did the Half-Way Covenant do?

Answer 4

Offer some benefits of church membership to the children of non-members

Question 5

What German priest and scholar challenged this practice?

Answer 5

Martin Luther

Question 6

What is the term given to the points of debate this priest posted in Wittenberg?

Answer 6

95 Theses

Question 7

Who were two English ministers who helped bring about a spiritual revival in England?

Answer 7

George Whitefield and John Wesley

Question 8

What is the supreme law for Christians?

Answer 8

the Bible

Question 9

What are the two most basic steps of interpretation?

Answer 9

Determining what a text says, and determining what a text means

Question 10

Who causes the rise and fall of nations?

Answer 10

God

Question 11

What was one purpose of the annual festivals that God commanded Israel to observe?

Answer 11

to help the people remember their history

Question 12

How did the Enlightenment change the common view of God and religion?

Answer 12

It pushed God to the sidelines by saying the the world operates by fixed natural laws; it also challenged religious tradition and even religious faith

Question 13

In what year did he post these points of ebate?

Answer 13

1517

Question 14

In 1688 the English Parliament asked what Protestant couple to rule England?

Answer 14

William and Mary

Question 15

What is the best interpreter of a passage of Scripture?

Answer 15

the rest of Scripture

Question 16

How should the Bible be read and understood?

Answer 16

the way it was written

Question 17

What dissenter founded the colony of Rhode Island?

Answer 17

Roger Williams

Question 18

Why was the Great Awakening opposed by some churches?

Answer 18

Some preachers condemned churches as spiritually dead and ministers as unconverted

Question 19

What is meant by the term worldview?

Answer 19

How a person sees and understands the world in which he or she lives

Question 20

Who was the leading American minister during the Great Awakening?

Answer 20

Jonathan Edwards

Question 21

What is meant by prooftexting?

Answer 21

taking a verse out of context to support an already existing belief or practice

Question 22

Over what issue did some denominations divide regarding the Great Awakening?

Answer 22

Whether to endorse the revival or not

Question 23

What religious group is associated with the founding of Pennsylvania?

Answer 23

Quakers or Society of Friends

Question 24

What was the Great Awakening?

Answer 24

A period of spiritual revival in the American colonies

Question 25

What are two elements of a God-centered worldview?

Answer 25

the belief that God made the world, that God made man in His image as a special creation, that God guides the world, that all is to be for God’s glory, that He gave absolute standards of right and wrong, that the world is heading for judgement