Final Flashcards
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Integrity is a code of conduct.
False
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Integrity will lead to a code of conduct.
True
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You can have conduct without character.
True
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Personal holiness or personal integrity will often dictate your actions or code of conduct.
False
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Holiness is governed by principles you must establish in your own life.
True
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A Christian’s personal conduct is always situational depending on circumstances and people you’re with.
False
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Mt. 6:21, “For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.” shows us ultimately our values dictate our conduct.
True
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People get in trouble when their minds have no fixed principles.
True
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Doing the right thing will never cost you.
False
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The cornerstone of holiness are the principles and commands established by the word of God.
True
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No one really attempts to use the Bible to justify their sin.
False
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Absent the core values of the Bible a carnal men is always able to justify his actions.
True
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Jesus said the Pharisees did not go far enough in some ways
True
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Jesus said we must do less than the righteousness of the Pharisees because they were legalistic.
False
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Convictions are necessary but cannot be preached as Bible commands.
True
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Biblical principles must be concretely applied and obeyed or we are sinning.
True
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Commands are not optional unless we live in a very different cultural setting than the Bible.
False
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1 Thess. 5:22 is a command to remove yourself from even an appearance of evil.
True
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Our Christian freedom belongs to us.
False
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Our Christian freedom belongs to God.
True
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The NLT gives a good translation of the Greek “exoutheneo” in Rom. 14:3 which means “look down on”.
False
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The Greek “exoutheneo” in Rom. 14:3 is best translated “despise” because it means not merely “looking down on” but to “despise utterly” another brother.
True
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In Romans 14 only the “stronger brother” was trying to honor God
False
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In Romans 14 both the “weaker brother” and “stronger brother” were trying to honor God in their conduct.
True
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In Rom. 14:7, “For none of us liveth to himself, & no man dieth to himself.” basically means the same as “no man is an island” showing we must live in community.
False
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Paul says even our Christian freedoms belong to God.
True
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Paul says our freedoms shouldn’t destroy another person God died for
True
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We can do things that others disagree with no matter what they think.
False
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We are commanded to serve Christ even in our Christian freedoms.
True
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We serve Christ by not offending a weaker brother through not participating in Christian freedom issues that offend.
True
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Paul is clear Christian freedom issues are not a sin in itself.
True
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Practicing a Christian freedom is a sin only if you can find the issue named in the very words of the Bible.
False
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Practicing a Christian freedom is a sin if you are hurting your brother or sister in Christ.
True
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Purity of heart and feeling good about a practice is a solid guide to our practice of Christian freedom issues
False
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Even a pure practice becomes evil, if you don’t care who you hurt or offend in doing it
True
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It is legalistic to say we must give up any Christian freedom that may cause your brothers & sisters to stumble, be offended, or weaken their faith.
False
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If a practice is not wrong it is always open to a Christian to do
False
Who does Paul put the responsibility on regarding Christian freedom issues?
The stronger brother
Who can liberty hurt?
The weaker brother
What’s the responsibility of the stronger person regarding Christian freedoms that are not wrong but offend?
Give them up
According to 1 Cor. 8:12-13 who do we sin against when we hurt weaker brothers and sisters?
Christ
How does Scripture say we can be lost regarding a Christian freedom if it is not wrong?
By attitude that says I can do this no matter who i hurt
What are the three separate and yet necessary biblical categories discussed in class regarding holiness?
Principles, Convictions, Commands
Where is our definition of holiness found?
The Bible
What is the biblical definition of nakedness?
The thigh
According to the biblical definition of holiness, what must we never expose?
Our thigh
Is there any place in the OT that affirms the male/female distinction in dress?
yes, Deu 22:5
Is there any place in the NT that affirms the male/female distinction in dress?
Yes, 1 Timothy
Where is the first place we find Scripture defining nakedness?
Genesis 3
According to 1 Tim. 2 the woman’s primary problem areas with holiness are which of the following?
Adornment, apparel, attitude
According to 1 Tim. 2 the mans primary problem areas with holiness are which of the following?
Appetite, anger, Apathy
What are some of the references in the OT to show why we have certain specific “lines” regarding dress?
Exodus 28, Isaiah 47:1-3, Isaiah 20:2
The Hebrew word “kuttonet” refers to the garments of skins God made Adam and Eve and always meets which of the following requirements?
A sleeved garment coming to the knee
What was the equivalent or “girding the loins” regarding sleeves?
Make bare the arm
What are some of the NT verses that show standards of dress are in agreement with the OT “lines” regarding dress?
1 Timothy 2:9
What does the Greek word “katastole” translated best “modest apparel” show regarding NT dress for women?
No girded loins, no exposing thighs, Deut 22:5
“Katastole” always refers to what minimum requirements?
A garment that always covers the thighs, loose and flowing.
Could Paul have used a different word to describe a garment that meant always to the ankle in Greek?
Yes
Which scholars agree that modest apparel according to the Bible means clearly from top to bottom a loose flowing garment that doesn’t expose the loins or things reflected more accurately in Victorian style dress?
Adam Clark, Vines Dictionary, John Gill, Turtuilla
What do the Assyrian bas-reliefs of Sennacherib’s siege of Judah (2 Kings 18:14, 17, 19:8; 2 Chron. 32:9; Isa. 36:2, 37:8) depict women and men as?
Women and ankle length dresses, Men with shorter robes and short hair
According to Smith’s dictionary a person wearing the tight inner garment only was considered what?
Naked
If the garment was tight and even to the ankles what was this still considered in Scripture according to Smith’s Bible Dictionary?
Naked
Who wore “breeches” in the OT?
Only men
According to Hebrew lexicons, what did “breeches” mean?
Trousers that extend below knee
Where does our English word “britches” and our modern concept of “pants” come from?
The Hebrew Word Breeches
Who wore pants exclusively for the first 5900 years of human history?
men
What must faith have attached to it?
Obedience
If you are deliberately living contrary to His Word, it shows you are not invested in which of the following?
Continuing faith
What is more powerful than the Law?
Love
What is essential to living a holy life?
Holy Spirit
When can you tell if someone’s heart is not towards God?
When they ask “what is the bear minimum”
When can you tell that someone in love with God and their heart is towards Him?
How can I please Him
What do leaders not have the right to do regarding holiness?
Add to the word, take away from Word, not apply principles from word
In applying the biblical principles regarding ornamentation what three things must we look at?
Moderation. Is the purpose of jewelry or apparel primarily functional? Is it primarily ornamentation?
What are 3 reasons to live holy?
To please God, To win others, for own own sake
What we do on the outside is always a reflection of what?
Whats on the inside
What did God not design or will to dwell in our bodies?
Sin
Living a Christian life keeps you from sins of the flesh that result in which of the following?
lung cancer, liver cancer, venereal diseases
Living a Christian life keeps you from sins of the spirit that result in which of the following?
High blood pressure
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1 Cor. 11 is nothing more than an old cultural argument.
False
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The word “culture” is never used in 1 Cor. 11.
True
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1 Cor. 11 ties “hair” to God’s creative order that speaks to all times & places.
True
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Paul shows a woman’s uncut hair is given for her “covering”.
True
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For centuries Jewish men wore prayer shawls
True
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Paul uses “ordinances” or “paradosis” which are used of handed down commands, or orders (as in military).
True
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Men were not to wear “veils” or “coverings” according to Paul.
False
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A woman “covered” means long not necessarily uncut hair.
False
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“Covered” for women is attached to “uncovered” katakalupto in 11:5, 13 showing it means uncut hair.
True
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The NIV explicitly shows a man being “covered” can only refer to a veil.
False
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Long hair on men (not lack of a veil) indicates lack of spiritual submission.
True
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Veils were considered disgraceful on Jewish or Greek men.
False
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The word uncovered “akatakaluptos” means to interrupt the flow downward.
True
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Length of hair is the main issue with Paul showing trimming or “maintaining” your hair is okay.
False
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According to Kittle’s comments in the culture Corinthian women all wore veils except Temple harlots
False
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All archeological evidence shows at that time Paul wrote in 1 Cor. 11 in Greek culture they did not wear veils.
True
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Later than the writing of 1 Cor. 11 Greek women did wear veils but only under Catholicism.
True
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Even the NIV footnote shows the issue is hair not veils because “uncovered” or ἀκατακάλυπτος is interpreted “…with no covering of hair on her head…”
True
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Bauer shows that “…let her also be shorn…” is “kai keipostho” = (from keiro/aorist middle imperative) meaning to cut, or shear; or (middle) having cut one’s hair/have one’s hair cut.
True
