Chapter 2, 4 Terms

Question 1

Any teaching that directly contradicts an essential New Testament teaching.

Answer 1

Heresy

Question 2

From the Greek, gnosis (“knowledge”), the belief that the physical world is evil and that only secret, spiritual knowledge can free persons from the physical world.

Answer 2

Gnosticism

Question 3

From the Greek, docein (“to seem”), the belief that Jesus only seemed to possess a physical body. Most Gnostics were also Docetists.

Answer 3

Docetism

Question 4

A series of statements that tested a new believer’s understanding of essential Christian doctrines, known today as “the Apostles’ Creed.”

Answer 4

Rule of Faith