Lesson One

Question 1

Who is the earliest recorded written witness to the gospel of Christ?

Answer 1

Paul

Question 2

When Peter spoke of “calling on the name of the Lord,” to whom would his audience have understood him to be referring?

Answer 2

Yahweh

Question 3

How did the Jewish people ensure that they did not violate the third commandment of Moses?

Answer 3

They never said the name of the Lord

Question 4

Give the names that the translators substituted for YHWH in the OT and NT.
Hebrew: __________________________
Greek: __________________________

Answer 4

a) Adonai

b) Kyrios

Question 5

For many Jews, the words “Jesus is Lord” would have been the essence of what?

Answer 5

Blasphemy

Question 6

What does Paul consider the greatest evidence of Christ’s death and resurrection

Answer 6

The Scriptures themselves (rather than the eyewitness testimony of the disciples)

Question 7

Why is the hallucination theory (that, in order to cope with their grief, one or all of the disciples simply saw a dream or a vision of Jesus after His death) extremely unlikely

Answer 7

Over 500 people saw the resurrected Christ

Question 8

What proves that the doctrine that Jesus is Lord was not just a fabrication of the later church

Answer 8

The gospel had already been around for a couple of decades

Question 9

What informs almost everything we do today?

Answer 9

Christian principles or understandings

Question 10

Finish these two sentences:
Jesus is the single most …
a) _______________________
b)________________________

Answer 10

a) Influential person that has ever lived

b) Malleable figure in history