Lesson Review 3 Flashcards
What nationality were almost all of the 1st Christians?
The 1st Christians were almost all Jewish.
What 2 places were fundamental to the Jewish religion and Nation?
Jerusalem and the Temple
What event destroyed the integral components of Judaism and caused the nation of Israel to reconstitute what it means to be a Jew
Destruction of Jerusalem AD 70
By what time was the church almost entirely Gentle?
AD 150 - 200
Who were the Apostolic Fathers?
Early 2nd century believers immediately after the Apostles
Name 3 Apostolic
Clement of Alexandria
Ignatius
Polycarp
Why did the writings of the Apostolic fathers sound very similar to the Hebrew scriptures and the writings of Paul?
They were still influenced by the Jewish interpretive lenses passed on to them by their Hebrew teachers
What is henotheism?
Henotheism is the worshipping of a single god while not denying the existence or possible existence of other deities.
Who were the Apologists?
The apologists were the first generational gentile believers
What will all honest biblical scholars admit?
The trinity is a historical development and is not present within the New Testament.
To say that the first century had any conception of a Trinity would be absolutely false.
