First Section Test?

Question 1

Apologetics

Answer 1

The ability to know and defend what you believe

Question 2

What are the three steps to achieve Apologetics

Answer 2

Identify what you believe in
Research and Analyze the benefits of the belief
Investigate and Explain what you believe

Question 3

Who acknowledged God as an authority but didn’t obey?

Answer 3

Jonah

Question 4

Two ways an individual with “I -centered” view authority?

Answer 4

The authority will prevent them from getting what they want.

The authority will give them what they want.

Question 5

Psalm 37:4?

Answer 5

Delight yourself in the Lord, and He will grant you the desires of your heart.

Question 6

Where did Paul speak to the people in Athens?

Answer 6

Aeropagus

Question 7

What were the people of Athens religious toward?

Answer 7

The latest ideas of the day

Question 8

What is the lesson taught by Paul in the Book of Acts when speaking to the people in Athens about an “unknown God”?

Answer 8

That God/his laws exist and He is the authority whether people accept the truth or not

*putting God in a box makes people the authority

Question 9

What’s the significance about Acts 17:8- God sets the exact times and place for humans to live?

Answer 9

No moment circumstantial: people, places, problems,

* each moment is an opportunity to hear from God.

Question 10

What are the two invisible qualities God has made plain to man?

Answer 10

Divine Nature, Eternal Power

Question 11

What does “without excuse” refer to?

Answer 11

Acceptance of the reality of God’s creation and existence (therefore there is No self-justification if their ignorance/arrogance)

Question 12

What has God given to all humans?

Answer 12

Gifts!

Question 13

What is the call that God has given to all humans in response to what He has given us?

Answer 13

To sharpen those gifts and apply them to the needs of the age

Question 14

Romans chapter 1 states that man exchange the truth of God for?

Answer 14

LIESSSSSS

*(of I-centeredness)

Question 15

What does Romans chapter 1 state that an exchange for the Creator?

Answer 15

Items created by man

Question 16

What is worship?

Answer 16

Where one spends their time

Question 17

Romans 1:28 defines “depraved mind” as?

Answer 17

Choosing to not retain the knowledge of God

Question 18

What is the purpose of the Old Testament?

Answer 18

Proclaiming the coming of the Messiah

Question 19

What was the Samaritan Woman “thirsty” for?

Answer 19

Feeling satisfied and significant (loved)

Question 20

What lesson does Paul teach in Romans regarding what happens when you judge others?

Answer 20

You’re judging yourself (concerned about what people think of you) - elevating yourself (which lie)

Question 21

What happens to people who die without ever hearing the gospel of Christ?

Answer 21

Judged by what is written on their hearts, have they loved?
* Love God and love OTHERS

Question 22

Why does Paul state in Romans 2:24 that “God’s name is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you?

Answer 22

Because they don’t love, they judge.

* yet they claim to have a knowledge of God

Question 23

What was Nicodemus searching for?

Answer 23

Logical evidence that Jesus was really the Messiah

Question 24

How did Jesus show love to Nicodemus?

Answer 24

He used the wind ( and the effect it has) to logically teach Nicodemus what being born again meant.

Question 25

What does it mean to be born again?

Answer 25

To be born spiritually, to acknowledge that u
1 )Are a spiritual being in a phys. Body
2)Your spiritual being lives forever
3)You will submit the authority of yourself to God

Question 26

How did John the Baptist display an example of leadership?

Answer 26

By understanding that his role was temporary and acknowledging that it was time for Jesus to become greater and for him to become lessor

Question 27

What does the perspective of John the Baptist’s disciples illustrate about what they believe?

Answer 27

They were more focused on Power & position instead of recognizing that their roles change upon Jesus becoming the Messiah

Question 28

What was Pilates job?

Answer 28

Roman Governor over Jerusalem

Question 29

Who did Jesus say was responsible for his death?

Answer 29

Jewish leaders

Question 30

What did Jesus say his purpose for being sent to Earth was?

Answer 30

To testify to the truth

Question 31

What did Pilate believe about the truth?

Answer 31

That it was relative

Question 32

What’s the problem with “there is no such thing as absolute truth”?

Answer 32

It contradicts itself

Question 33

Did Plato believe that Jesus was innocent?

Answer 33

Yup

Question 34

What was the primary motivation of the Jewish leaders?

Answer 34

To protect their power structure

Question 35

What was Pilate’s primary motivation for setting Jesus free?

Answer 35

He didn’t want to deal with the problem

Question 36

Who warned Pilate not to mess with the Jesus situation?

Answer 36

His wife

Question 37

Four ways Pilate tried to justify setting Jesus free? Go.

Answer 37

Offering Compromise release
Offering to send back to the Jewish leaders
Beating him
Having them denounce their king

Question 38

The three ways that Pilate tried to relieve the responsibility of Jesus’s situation?

Answer 38

Stating Jesus’s innocence
Washing his hands of it in public
The sign on the cross

Question 39

Who did those Jewish leaders say was their king?

Answer 39

Caesar

Question 40

What did the sign on Jesus’ cross say?

Answer 40

King of Jews

Question 41

What was the language on the sign that was meant for the Jewish people?

Answer 41

Aramaic

Question 42

What was the language on the sign to represent the culture of the day?

Answer 42

Greek

Question 43

What was the language that represented the wealthy, powerful, intellectuals?

Answer 43

Latin