Exam IV - Final Flashcards
The story of 1st Peter is subversive attempting to draw a picture of reality in which________ can be made sense of and can be interpreted in a _______ way
suffering and pain
positive
While 1 & 2 Corinthians are written to the church in Corinth and 1 & 2 Thessalonians are written to the church in Thessalonica, 1st Peter is written to which church?_____
1st Peter is a GENERAL letter to churches in Asia Minor, NOT a specific church
In 1st Peter, the author asserts that the intended audience is living how? ____
“outside of the way that they had lived before” becoming Christians
According to 1st Peter,what do the “old ways of life” of the intended audience look like? GREAT TEST QUESTION!
they formerly participated in pagan banquets living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing and detestable idolatry
It is agreed upon that the persecution that the people being addressed in 1st Peter received was what? ___________
VERBAL! (not physical)
In 1st Peter, Peter says to the audience churches that it is God’s will that by doing _______ you will silence the ignorant talk of the foolish. This is a big deal for them because of ____________ and they were being asked to ____________ even though they were being slandered.
doing good
the honor/shame culture
remain silent
There are questions if Peter actually wrote 1st Peter himself because:
o __________________ and
o ________________
o The Greek is very good (although scribes may have done this for Peter) and
o Persecution likely occurred in later years when Peter would have been very old – or after his crucifixion
Beers’ paraphrases what Peter asks of the audience churches in 1st Peter how? ______________. So the point is DO NOT __________________.
HOLD FAST, STAND FIRM…DON’T RESPOND IN KIND!
DO NOT RETURN EVIL FOR EVIL!!
1 Peter 2:21-25 - Shows the relevance of Jesus being the servant/slave so this section SPEAKS TO ___________.
SPEAKS TO SERVENTS with this connection
The servant in Isiah first suffers and then is _______________
glorified
Within 1 Peter and other 2c Jewish texts, the OT book of ______ which is known across the empire is frequently quoted.
Isaiah
Isaiah chapts. 1-39 are all about ___________ and rather depressing but in Chpt 40 what happens?
Where is the content about the “servant?”
judgment
the book becomes more positive about things after the judgment
The SERVANT fits in the second, POSITIVE half
Scholars say that when the restoration is lived out by humans it becomes ______
EMBODIED…Gods restoration will come through the HUMAN AGENT of SUFFERING
Who suffered in the manner described by Isaiah?
CHRIST
Isa 53:7 - “He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not __________”
open his mouth
that is, he did not retaliate
When they hurled insults at Jesus but he said “father forgive them for they know not what they do” this was radical in that society would have been expected Jesus to ______________.
throw insults back
Jesus lives out the suffering. Others claimed to have done this also but the NT shows that unlike the others, the suffering that Jesus endured was also lived out in _____________.
and it ALSO was seen to be lived out in his Jesus followers
1 Peter says: “Now that we have received grace through Jesus do we just go on __________ ?”…NO!!
sinning
The word “antichrist” only shows up 2x in NT. It is in ___________ NOT ___________!
1 John & 2 John
Revelation
Revelation has a mixture of _________ which includes:___________.
GENRES
Letters, Prophesy & Apocalyptic Literature
Within prophetic literature there is a _________ piece
conditional
In Apocalyptic Literature (or revelation) as a genre, you expect to see the use of _____________.
SYMBOLS – symbolic language of things
The imagery in Revelation is supposed to evoke ____________, it is NOT supposed to ______________.
encouragement and reinforcement of faithfulness! (i.e. comfort and assurance for those who are faithful - “feel like a ‘hug’”)
NOT supposed to scare!
The Point if Revelation is ________.
GOD WINS