Christianity & Islam Flashcards

1
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How many Christians in the world today

A

More than 2 billion

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2
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What was the Lingua Franca of Europe North Africa and the Middle East in the first century (Main Language)

A

Greek

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3
Q

The Gospels make the slightest references to Jesus’s?

A

Childhood

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4
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Which is not an author of the gospels

A

Paul

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5
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Albert Schwietzer argues Jesus teachers placed heavy emphasis on ?

A

Eschatology

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6
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Earliest period of the Church’s history comes from the biblical book known as

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The acts of the Apostles

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7
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According to Christian tradition which was not true of Paul

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He was one of Jesus’s first disciples from Galilee

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8
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List of twenty seven book that make up the New Testament

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Canon

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9
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Who taught that the material world was evil and that Christ therefore could not really have been a physical embodied being

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Gnostics

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10
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13th century theologian who, like the Jewish theologian Maimonides before him, attempted to synthesize the philosophy of Aristotle and the Bible

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Aquinas

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11
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The word Qu’ran literally means what

A

Recitation

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