James and Galatians

Question 1

119 - What is the normal outline of letters in the NT?

Answer 1

Consists of five parts.

1. Opening
2. Thanksgiving
3. Body
4. Exhortation
5. Closing

Question 2

What document in the NT was most likely the first composed?

Answer 2

James

Question 3

What was Paul’s first letter written?

Answer 3

Galatians

Question 4

What do James and Galatians like Matthew deal heavily in?

Answer 4

OT law.

Question 5

What does the Hebrew word, Torah, mean?

Answer 5

Revelation or instruction.

Term for the first five books of the OT.

Question 6

122 - What is the law in the broad sense?

Answer 6

The Law of Moses

Question 7

What is the law in the narrow sense?

Answer 7

Commandments, rules, regulations contained in Genesis through Deuteronomy.

Question 8

What is a Judaizer?

Answer 8

Those who imposed OT laws on NT Christians.

Question 9

What does the Hebrew word for holy mean?

Answer 9

Set apart.

Question 10

What is antinomianism?

Answer 10

Jesus fulfilled the law so no OT laws need to be heeded.

Question 11

Who wrote James?

Answer 11

James, the half brother of Jesus.

Not James the son of Zebedee.

Question 12

Who killed James, the son of Zebedee and brother of John?

Answer 12

Herod Agrippa I around A.D. 43 (Acts 12:2).

Question 13

124 - What does the term Diaspora mean?

Answer 13

When Jews were scattered outside of the region of Judea.

Question 14

124 - Who is James written to?

Answer 14

The 12 tribes in the Dispersion.

Question 15

124 - What does James contain in 108 verses?

Answer 15

54 imperatives

Question 16

124 - What is a good summary of James?

Answer 16

22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.

Question 17

125 - Where does evil desire come from?

Answer 17

13 Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am being tempted by God,” for God cannot be tempted with evil, and hehimself tempts no one. 14 But each person is tempted when he is luredand enticed by his own desire. 15 Then desire when it has conceived givesbirth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.

Question 18

125 - What does only James us?

Answer 18

Faith alone.

You see that a person is justified by works andnot by faith alone.

Question 19

125 - What is James most glorious assertion?

Answer 19

2:13b -Mercy triumphs overjudgment.

Question 20

What is the most controversial verses in James?

Answer 20

2:24 -24 You see that a person is justified by works andnot by faith alone.

Question 21

In quoting Genesis 15 what does James affirm?

Answer 21

That Abraham was accreditated as righteous because he simply believed in God.

Question 22

126 - What does James assert in chapter 3?

Answer 22

Words have a lot of power.

Question 23

Who is Jesus in James?

Answer 23

Wisdom

Question 24

Who is Galatians addressed to?

Answer 24

To the churches of Galatia.

Part of a region of the Gauls, north of the area Paul visited on his first mission journey.

Question 25

What is the debate taking place in Galatians?

Answer 25

The role of the law and whether Gentile believers had to be circumcised.

Question 26

When is Galatians most likely written in relation to Paul’s journey to Jerusalem to meet with the apostles about the conflict?

Answer 26

Before his journey to Jerusalem since he doesn’t appeal to the decision reached in Jerusalem (Acts 15).

Question 27

What does Paul omit in his letter to the Galatians?

Answer 27

The thanksgiving.

Question 28

129 - What is the theme of Galatians?

Answer 28

A person’s relationship with God.

A person’s standing before God cannot be dependant on how they live according to the law.

Question 29

129 - What are the three elements that are repeatedly encountered in Galatians?

Answer 29

Law, Gospel, and response.

Question 30

129 - How does Paul say he received the Gospel?

Answer 30

Through a revelation of Jesus Christ.

Any other gospel must be rejected.

Question 31

131 - To support his teaching on justification, what does Paul quote, which also James refered to?

Answer 31

Genesis 15:6 - And he believed the LORD, andhe counted it to him as righteousness.

Question 32

131 - Where in the OT do we read that the righteous will live by faith?

Answer 32

Habakkuk 2:4 -

4 “Behold, his soul is puffed up; it is not upright within him,

but the righteous shall live by his faith.

Question 33

132 - Our relationship to God is tied to what in Galatians 3?

Answer 33

Our baptism.

3:27 For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

Question 34

131 - What does redeemed mean?

Answer 34

Bought back.

Question 35

134 - What are we freed to do?

Answer 35

Love one another (5:13)

13 For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love

serve .

Question 36

134 - Who most likely wrote Paul’s letters?

Answer 36

An amanuensis, a type of scribe or secretary.

In Galatians, Paul writes his own conclusion (6:11).

11 See with what large letters I am writing to you with my own hand.

Question 37

135 - The tension between James and Galatians may be attributed to what?

Answer 37

James speaks to those who have been Christians for some time.

Paul is addressing new Gentile converts.

Different people, contexts, and challenges.

Question 38

135 - What dimension of Christian life does Paul stress in Galatians?

Answer 38

Vertical

Question 39

Contrast Paul and James emphasises of faith?

Answer 39

Paul - faith, then works.

James - faith that works.

Question 40

137 - What does the OT call the Ten Commandments?

Answer 40

Never refered to as the Ten Commandments.

Call the “Ten Words” Decalogue in Greek.

Question 41

137 - What are the most severe problems with the Law?

Answer 41

When it is brought into the area of justification.

Question 42

How does Paul describe the Law in Romans?

Answer 42

The embodiment of knowledge and truth (Romans 2:20)

Question 43

According to Romans 13:10, what is love?

Answer 43

The fulfilling of the law.

Question 44

Where was Galatia?

Answer 44

A region of present day Turkey.