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Exam 1 Flashcards

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What are the 3 criteria for accepting a book into canon

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Apostolic origin
Recognition by churches
Apostolic

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Four pillars of Judaism

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Monotheism
Election
Convenant
Land

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Great commandment according to Jesus, we are to Love who?

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Love god first and then love eachother

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What are the 3 synoptic gospels “rest”

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Reason
Experience
Scripture
Tradition

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Name 3 of 7 signs in John

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Jesus turns water to wine
Jesus heals the royal officials son
Jesus heals the mean laying at the pool
Jesus feeds 5000 people (men women and children)
Jesus walks on water
Jesus heals a blind man
Jesus rose Lazarus from the dead

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“I am statement”

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I am the bread of life
I am the good shepherd
I am the light of the world
I am the resurrection and the life
I am the way,truth, and life
I am the true vine
Before Abraham was I

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  1. What two words best describe Jesus according to John 1?
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  • Grace and Truth
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• Know what “Q” means and why it is important

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“Q” refers to the “Q documents” or “Q source” and it is the hypothetical written collection of primarily Jesus’ sayings. It is important because it is said to be a commonality between the synoptic gospels

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Most scholars believe what gospel was written first

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Mark

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How many parables are there in John

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None

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What gospel features the “I am” statements from Jesus

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John

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What group didn’t believe in the afterlife and the resurrection

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Sadducee’s

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Pentateuch

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The first five books of the Old Testament-Genesis,exodus, Leviticus, numbers, and Deuteronomy. According to Jewish tradition, Moses authored all five of these books

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Samaritans

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Those who lived in the region formerly known as the northern kingdom of Israel. They were of the ethnically diverse origins, including the race to israel.

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Qumran

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The location of the Dead Sea community where the Dead Sea scrolls were discovered. This community was thought to be one branch of a group of Jews known as the essences.

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Diaspora

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The scattering of Jews throughout the Mediterranean world and away film from their geographical point of origin

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Fatalism

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The sense that nothing happens by chance, that everything that takes place is determined by forces beyond human control.

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Transfiguration

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The Jesus along with Moses and Eliah. Was transformed into a heavenly state in front of the disciples Peter,James and John

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Q

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Unknown source for the gospel

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Eucharist

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Often called “ communion” it literally means “thanksgiving”. It is a celebration in memory of Jesus’ atoning death on the cross. Bread represents his body, while wine represents his blood

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Infallible

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With regard to the Bible, without error in any Matter of faith or doctrine.

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Inerrant

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With regard to the Bible, without errors, including scientific or historical errors

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Revelation

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Truth conveyed or revealed from God to humanity.

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Inspiration

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The process by which God conveyed truth through human authors to written text of the Bible

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Sacrament

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A means of grace. A divinely appointed path by which to meet god and experience his love. Example baptism

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Manuscript

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An ancient document written by hand. Over five thousand handwritten manuscripts.

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Circumcision

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The outing off of the foreskin:a sien of the special relationship between God and the sons of abraham

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Lord

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A term that implies Christ kingship over heaven and earth and that he is the ruler of all

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Anti-semitism

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Hatred of Jews

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John the baptizer

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A first century reform whose proclamation of coming judgment and restoration provided the launching point for Jesus own mission

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Exorcism

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Causing an evil spirit to leave the body of someone it was controlling

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Synoptic

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Seen together

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  1. Gnosticism
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Gnosticism: A movement–both Christian and Jewish–that believed that the salvation of our spirits from our physical bodies came from hidden knowledge. Gnostics saw flesh as evil, and some believed the God of the Old Testament was an evil being.

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Gentile

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Someone who is not a Jew

35
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Bible

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The sacred scriptures of comprising the Old Testament and New Testament

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Gospel

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gospel/Gospel: (1) From our perspective, the genre of the four presentations of Jesus in the Now Testament, Matthew, Mark, Luko, and John, whose aim was to present the gospel of Jesus Christ. In their own world, how-ever, most of them come closest to the genre of ancient biography, although Luke may be considered history. (2) In the ancient world in general, good news of an extraordinary sort, such as the birth of a future emperor or an important military victory. (3) In Jesus’ ministry, He used the word to refer to the good news that the kingdom of God was about to arrive on earth “as it is in heaven.” (4) For Paul and the early Christians, It was the good news that God had provided salvation for the world through the death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ. We come closest to Paul in our use of the word today the gospel as the “good news” message that through Jesus Christ God has provided a way of escape froly judgment.

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Scripture

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A writing or collection of writings considered to be authoritative in some way for particular religious group

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Apostle

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apostle: Someone who is sent on an official mission, an ambassador; in the New Testament, someone who saw Jesus after He rose from the dead The New Testament primarily refers to Jesus’ disciples by this term, but the word can also be used of others like Paul who took leading roles in the spread of Christianity.

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Yahweh

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Gods proper name in the Old Testament, usually translated Lord in all capital letters

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Passover

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The most important Jewish festival it celebrates the day when the death angel “passed over “ the sons of the Israelites before they escape from Egypt

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Maccabees

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The Jewish family that successfully freed the Jews from Syrian rule, resulting in about a hundred years of freedom

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Sabbath

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The period from sundown on Friday to sundown on Saturday during which Jews didn’t work

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Epicureanism

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Did not believe in afterlife;one’s souls atoms disintegrate at death just like one’s body. By the time of Christ they believed one should eat drink and be merry for tomorrow we die.

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Parable

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A rather wide category of figurative speech that includes such types

45
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Gehenna

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The Aramaic way of referring to the valley of Hinniom, the trash dump of Jerusalem. The location became a metaphor for hell

46
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Eschatological

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The reconstruction of the historical Jesus that sees him as someone oriented around the end of the current period of history, perhaps even of the world.

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Apocalypse

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A type of writing in which a heavenly being brings a revelation to an authority figure, both about things going on in the heavenly realm and about things that are going to happen in the near future. Usually these were written in a time of crisis and were placed on the lips of a famous figure from the past, who foretold how God would make everything right in the world.

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  1. Genre
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genre: A type of literature or literary form, such as a novel, a personal letter, an eviction notice, a diary, etc. Such forms create certain expectations in a reader before s/he even starts to read.

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  1. Orthodoxy
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orthodoxy: Correct teaching as it is understood by mainstream Christians, as opposed to heresy, which is incorrect teaching.

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Apostasy

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Abandoning or rejecting Christianity after having previously been a Christianity

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Exodus

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The victorious departure of Israel from Egypt to freedom

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Messiah

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“anointed one” and was originally used to refer to
someone such as a king or priest who was set apart for a special, divinely appointed role. This person often was installed into office by being
“anointed” with oil.

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Sadducees

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Sadducees: A small group of aristocratic Jews who held political power in Jerusalem. They did not believe in an afterlife

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Aramaic

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A language that evolved from Hebrew. It was what most Jews in Palestine spoke as their first language.

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Stoicism

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Stoics: Stoics believed that the Logos, the divine Reason that was in all things, directed and ordered the world. Since one could not possibly overcome its direction, one should accept his/her fate and not be concerned with pain or emotion. One should listen to the small seed of logos that is the human spirit. This seed returns to the Logos of the world at death.

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Pegan

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Worshipping many gods (polytheistic) as opposed to one god ( monotheistic)

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Beatitudes

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The blessing Jesus pronounces on the poor in spirit, mourners, the meek and others in Matthew 5:3-10

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Incarnation

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Fully god and fully man

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Immaculate conception

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The Roman Catholic believe that not just Jesus but also Mary was born without sin

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Apocrypha

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A group of writing including Roman Catholic and orthodox bibles but not in the Bible’s of most Protestants

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Epistle

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Basically, a letter, although some scholars only use the word to refer to a somewhat official letter that circulates to a broad audience.

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Cannon

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The group of writing that Christians consider to be authoritative on the level of scripture

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Disciples

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One who is a follower or learner: in the context of the gospels, a follower of Jesus while He was on earth, someone who attached him or herself to Jesus in order to learn from Him and become like Him.

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Hersey

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Incorrect teaching according to the Christian mainstream, as opposed to orthodoxy, which is correct teaching; inappropriate belief.

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Textual criticism

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That branch of New Testament studies that aim at recovering the exact wording of the original texts of the Bible.

66
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12 disciples

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Thomas, Peter,Matthew, James the greater,Judas, Simon, Phillip, Bartholomew, John, James the lesser, Andrew

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What did the 12 disciples do

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  1. Simon (known as Peter)
  2. Andrew (Peter’s brother)
  3. James (son of Zebedee)
  4. John (James’ brother)
  5. Phillip
  6. Bartholomew
  7. Thomas
  8. Matthew (the tax collector)
  9. James (son of Alphaeus)
  10. Thaddeus (also known as Judas, son of James and Lebbaeus)
  11. Simon (the zealot also known as Simon the Canaanite)
  12. Judas Iscariot

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