LESSON 2

Question 1

True or False: For the next FIVE CENTURIES, persecutions would occur intermittently.

Answer 1

False, three centuries

Question 2

Who did the second persecution?

Answer 2

Domitian in 95 AD who reinstated the same anti-Christian laws Nero used

Question 3

Bases for Persecutions

Answer 3

1. Religious
2. Political
3. Social

Question 4

True or False: Up until 250, persecutions were a result of mob action and often localized.

Answer 4

True

Question 5

What happened to persecutions after 250?

Answer 5

They became the result of definite civil policy by the Roman government

Question 6

So long as Christianity was in this state, there would be little persecution.

Answer 6

Religio licita or legal sect

Question 7

What happened when Christianity was viewed as a different sect?

Answer 7

The religion became illegal and a threat to Rome

Question 8

True or False: Romans had nothing to add to their pantheon.

Answer 8

False, Christians

Question 9

This religion is mechanical and external-filled with idols

Answer 9

Roman Religion

Question 10

True or False: Christian worship was more spiritual and internal.

Answer 10

True

Question 11

What words made people think Christians were cannibals?

Answer 11

“The flesh” or “the blood”

Question 12

Why did higher classes despise Christians?

Answer 12

Because they were welcoming to lower classes and slaves

Question 13

Paganism insisted on what kind of structure?

Answer 13

Aristocratic

Question 14

Who forced Paul into court?

Answer 14

Gallio, the Roman Governor, while in Corinth

Question 15

Sufferings of the Church primarily and initially came from?

Answer 15

The Jewish community

Question 16

Christians were accused of multiple things, such as?

Answer 16

Cannibalism, atheism, antisocial behavior, immorality

Question 17

True or False: The blood of the persecutors became the “seeds of the Church.”

Answer 17

False, the blood of the martyrs

Question 18

In what year could Christians be found in all parts of the Empire?

Answer 18

200

Question 19

Headquarters in Egypt

Answer 19

Alexandria

Question 20

Headquarters in North Africa

Answer 20

Carthage

Question 21

Serious controversies spread in North Africa and Rome concerning what issues?

Answer 21

Those offering sacrifices and giving up on scriptures

Question 22

What were the two solutions offered to solve the controversies in North Africa and Rome?

Answer 22

1. The committers of wrongdoings would be excluded from the assembly forever.
2. The committers of wrongdoings would undergo a period of probation before they could rejoin the fellowship.