Exam 4 Flashcards
The new literary form which Paul invented is
Epistle
A amanuensis was a professional
Scribe
Ancient letter had three parts; a. _________ b.__________ c._________
Greeting, main body, farewell
Letters were usually sent by
Travelers
Paul closes several of his letters with a section on _________ instructions
Ethical
The order of Paul’s letters written to churches depends on length, beginning with the longest, which is ___________
Romans
The shortest of Paul’s letters is
2 Thessalonians
Galatians insists on ___________ from any doctrine of salvation that requires human effort in addition to divine grace
Christian Liberty
Galatians opens with a greeting in which Paul stresses his apostles hip because he wants to establish his
Authority against the Judaizers
Paul states that the gospel came to him by
Direct revelation
Sarah stands for Christianity and its capital, the heavenly Jerusalem. Isaac her promised and freeborn son stands for _______
All the spiritual children of Abraham
The last main section of Galatians warns against libertinism, the attitude that freedom from the law means _____
License to sin
Thessalonians best known for their teaching about _______
The 2nd coming of Jesus Christ
Thessalonica was the capital city of __________
Macedonia
_________ is the term commonly used to designate the catching up of Christians at the second coming
Rapture
________ designates the immortalizing and glorifying of the bodies of Christians alive on earth when Jesus returns
Translation
____________ arose in Thessalonica out of belief in the immediacy of Jesus’ return
Fanaticism
Paul writes the first letter to the ________ to solve problems that have arisen in the church
Corinthians
Altogether, paul ministered ________ years in the cit of Corinth
1 1/2
First Corinthians is the _______ letter written to the church in Corinth
2nd
Paul writes first Corinthians while he is in the city of ______
Ephesus
First Corinthians is written while Paul is on his __________ missionary journey
3rd