CHAPTER 2

Question 1

The Gnostics’ false teachings first surfaced in the first century. By AD 140, Gnostics outnumbered Christians in some areas.

Answer 1

1. Gnostic Controversy

Question 2

claiming to be the Messiah

Answer 2

2. Second Jewish Rebellion

Question 3

Montanists—also known as “New Prophets”

Answer 3

3. Montanist Movement

Question 4

The Muratorian Canon acknowledged every New Testament book with the exception of Hebrews, James, and Peter’s epistles; decades passed before these texts were universally acknowledged.

Answer 4

4. Books of the New Testament Recognized

Question 5

Rejected the Old Testament and tried to remove sixteen books from the texts that Christians recognized as apostolic.

Answer 5

1. Marcion

Question 6

Earliest leader of the New Prophets (also known as “Montanists”).

Answer 6

2. Montanus

Question 7

Leader of the New Prophets.

Answer 7

3. Maximilla

Question 8

predicted Jesus would return to Phrygia.

Answer 8

4. Prisca

Question 9

Overseer of Rome. Fourteenth pope, for Roman Catholics.

Answer 9

5. Victor

Question 10

Defended eastern Christians during Easter controversy.

Answer 10

6. Irenaeus

Question 11

North African slave girl and Christian, probably a Montanist.

Answer 11

7. Felicity

Question 12

. Attacked “modalism”

Answer 12

8. Tertullian

Question 13

Recorded the Apostolike Paradosis

Answer 13

9. Hippolytus

Question 14

Any teaching that directly contradicts an essential New Testament teaching.

Answer 14

1. Heresy

Question 15

From the Greek, gnosis (“knowledge”)..

Answer 15

2. Gnosticism

Question 16

From the Greek, docein (“to seem”)…

Answer 16

3. Docetism

Question 17

…. “the Apostles’ Creed.”

Answer 17

4. Rule of Faith