Mid-Term / 2015 Flashcards

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1
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Who carried the wood up the mountain for Isaac’s sacrifice?

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Isaac

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2
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How is science a restriction of reason?

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Science is concerned with observable behavior

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What is the revelation handed on from Christ to the Apostles and to the modern era through the Church?

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Sacred Tradition

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Know the 7 steps of Revelation

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  1. God’s covenant with Noah
  2. God making himself known to Adam and Eve
  3. God promising a Redeemer
  4. God’s covenant with Abraham and his chosen people
  5. God’s deliverance of Israel from Egypt
  6. God’s promise through the prophets of an everlasting new covenant.
  7. The revelation of the Person of Jesus Christ
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What are the twenty-seven books of the Bible written by Sacred Authors in the apostolic era?

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New Testament

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What is god’s communication of himself by which he makes known the mystery of his divine plan?

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Revelation

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What is one of the hypothetical original sources of the Pentateuch, particularly the Book of Deuteronomy written around the seventh century BC

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Dueteronomistic

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What is the dogma that stated Mary was born from all stain of Original Sin?

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Immaculate Conception

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What are the two main senses of interpreting the bible?

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Literal

spiritual

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What is the name of a group of members of an ancient Jewish sect, distinguished by their strict observance of the traditional written law and their oral law?

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Pharisees

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What has been the function of ecumenical councils in Church history?

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Makes decisions about matters of Faith and morals

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12
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Know the 27 books of the New Testament

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See Mrs. Krumpelman for help

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13
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What is the study of ancestry or a chronological list of ancestors?

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Genealogy

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14
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What is the belief that the existence of god cannot be known or proven?

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Agnosticiism

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15
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What is the place outside of Jerusalem where Jesus was crucified?

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Golgotha

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16
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What is what God communicates to us about himself simply through the existence of creation?

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Natural revelation

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What is the Jewish sect that believed in accommodating Judaism to modern life. They did not believe in the resurrection, and denied the existence of angels and spirits?

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Sadducees

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18
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What does it mean to say that Sacred Scripture is inspired?

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God is the main author

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19
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Who was the righteous man who with his family and the animals survived the flood?

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Noah

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What is a revealed truth solemnly defined by the Magisterium of the church?

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Dogma

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21
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Who was the wife of Abraham and Mother of Isaac?

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Sarah

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22
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Does papal infallibility mean that the pope can never make a mistake?

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He can make a mistake

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What is the term for the visit of the angel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary to inform her that she was to be the mother of the Savior?

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Annunciation

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24
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He was murdered by his brother - - and because of his sacrifice was acceptable to God?

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Abel

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25
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What is the liberation of the Hebrew people from slavery in Egypt?

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Exodus

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26
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Who was the Roman governor of Judea, who sentenced Jesus to crucifixion?

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Pilate

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What is the portion of the Mass that included the preparation of the bread and wine, the consecration of the body and blood of Christ, and the distribution of Holy Communion to the faithful?

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Liturgy of the Eucharist

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28
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What are the conditions of the Fathers of the Church?

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Antiquity
Orthodoxy
Holiness

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29
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What is the bodily rising of Jesus from the dead, on the third day after his death?

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Resurrection

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30
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What are the two ways in which one’s faith development can be pursued?

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Prayerful contemplation

Study of Divine Revelation

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31
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What is God’s speech to man?

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Prophecy

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32
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Who did God put a mark on so that no one would kill him?

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Cain

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33
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What is something that is said in the name of God?

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Word of God

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34
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What is the historical lineage of each bishop back to one of the Twelve apostles?

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Apostolic Succession

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35
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What is papal infallibility?

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When the pope proclaims he is without error

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36
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What are the list of inspired books of the Bible?

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Canon

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37
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How long will the promise to Noah last?

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Forever

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38
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What is from the Greek for five books - the Torah?

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Pentateuch

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39
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What Council serves as a model for Ecumenical Councils later in church History?

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Jerusalem

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40
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Who was the Son of Abraham and Sarah and was the heir to god’s promise?

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Isaac

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41
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What does the Deposit of faith contain?

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Faith

Morals

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42
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Who was the man chosen by God to lead the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt?

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Moses

43
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Who is the first man and our first father?

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Adam

44
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Who were the early Christian writers whose writings faithfully transmitted and illuminated the Faith?

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Fathers of the church

45
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What is the denial of the existence of God?

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Atheism

46
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Which of Abraham’s children was the heir to the promises God made to Abraham?

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Isaac

47
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What is the spiritual sense that shows how persons or events in scripture point to the realities of Heaven?

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Anagogical sense

48
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What is God’s divine life present in our souls?

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Grace

49
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What is the portion of the Mass that includes the reading of scripture and the homily?

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Liturgy of the Word

50
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What are three Marian Apparitions?

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Lourdes, Fatima, Guadalope

51
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What is the theological virtue by which one believes all that God has said and revealed to man and that the Church proposes for belief?

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Faith

52
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What is a being created by God in order to live in communion with God?

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Religious being

53
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What is a supernatural assent of the intellect through which a truth revealed by God is believed on the authority of God who reveals it?

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Act of Faith

54
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What is one of the tribes of Israel?

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Judah

55
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What was the miraculous food the Israelites were given in the desert?

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Manna

56
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What are the five books of Moses: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy?

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Torah

57
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What is the interpretation of persons or events in scripture as signs or symbols of other people or events?

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Spiritual sense

58
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What is the mystery of one God in three persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit?

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Trinity

59
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What was the vessel that was used to survive the flood?

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Ark

60
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What is the enforced removal from one’s native land?

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Exile

61
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What is a version of the Septuagint produced by Origen - it presents the tests in Hebrew and Greek in parallel columns?

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Hexapla

62
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What is the worship or adoration due God alone paid to any created object?

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Idolatry

63
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What is one of the hypothetical original sources of the Pentateuch, reflecting the perspective of Jews in the Judah around the ninth or tenth century BC?

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Jehovist

64
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Who was the youngest of Isaac’s sons and father to the 12 tribes of Israel?

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Jacob

65
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What is the study of the end things?

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Eschatology

66
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What is one of the hypothetical original sources of the Pentateuch, reflecting the perspective of Jews in the northern kingdom of Israel around the eighth or ninth century BC?

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Elohist

67
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What is the spiritual sense that describes how persons or events in Scripture point to future persons or events?

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Allegorical sense

68
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What is one of the hypothetical original sources of the Pentateuch, particularly the Book of Deuteronomy, written around the seventh century BC?

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Priestly

69
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What is the Hebrew word for God?

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Elohim

70
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What is the theological virtue by which one believes in all that God has said and revealed to man and that the church proposes for belief?

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Faith

71
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Who was a wicked king who ordered the slaughter of innocents after the birth of Jesus?

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Herod the Great

72
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What is a solemn agreement between people or between God and man involving mutual commitments and guarantees?

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Covenant

73
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What is the process of knowing God’s existence through the realization that all creation must originate from a first cause?

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Principle of causality

74
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What is incapable of error - - applies to the Magisterium in matters of Faith and Morals?

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Infallibility

75
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What is the land God promised to Abraham’s descendants?

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Canaan

76
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What is a sign, wonder, or event which transcends the laws of nature and therefore can be attributed to divine power?

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Miracle

77
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What is the term for how the meaning of the text was originally understood?

A

Literal sense

78
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What is the term for the four main signs and evidence that certain affirmations are made by God and that they have been passed along to us completely and without error?

A

Motives of Credibility

79
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What was an ornate box that held the tablets of the Law?

A

Ark of the Covenant

80
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What was the name of the garden in which God placed Adam and Eve?

A

Eden

81
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What is the supreme council of the Jews?

A

Sanhedrin

82
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What is the Sacred Scripture; the books containing the truth of God’s Revelation as composed by inspired, Sacred Authors?

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Bible

83
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What is the name of the Garden where Jesus went to pray after the Last Supper?

A

Gethsemane

84
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What are the four types of books found in the Old Testament? Explain one book from each.

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Law
History
Wisdom
Prophecy

85
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What is a word or deed against God, the Virgin Mary to inform her that she was to be the mother of the Savior?

A

Blasphemy

86
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Who was a descendant of Shem and the founder of the Hebrew nation?

A

Abraham

87
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Who is a person who is selected by God to call others to repentance and amendment of their lives in order to avoid dire consequences?

A

Prophet

88
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What is who proclaims the good new; this term refers in a special way to Sts. Matthew, Mark, Luke and John who each wrote a Gospel?

A

Evangelist

89
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Who was the cousin of Jesus - his baptizing and preaching in the wilderness prepared the way for Jesus?

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John the Baptist

90
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What are the parts of the Old Testament removed from the Jewish canon of Scripture but in the Septaugint used by the early Christians?

A

Deuterocanonical

91
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What is a type of sacred literature characterized by symbolic imagery - an alternate name for the book of revelation?

A

Apocalypse

92
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What means, “Roman Peace” a time in which the Roman Empire was ruled by a single emperor and enjoyed tranquility and order?

A

Pax Romana

93
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What is a letter addressed to a particular person or people - much of the New Testament consists of these letters written to individuals, to congregations, or to the church as a whole?

A

Epistle

94
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Who was the first king of Israel, he was anointed by Samuel - and was later replaced by David?

A

Saul

95
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What is the spiritual sense that presents the heroes of Scripture as models for emulation?

A

Moral sense

96
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What is the intellectual power of faculty that is ordinarily employed by man in adapting thought or action to some end - the guiding principle of the human mind in the process of thinking?

A

Reason

97
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What is the first sin committed by Adam and Eve when they disobeyed God?

A

Object of Faith

98
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What are the literary forms or genres present in the Bible?

A

History
Poetry
Epistles

99
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Who Jacob’s favorite son who was sold into slavery by his brothers?

A

Joseph

100
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What is the name given to the teaching authority of the church?

A

Magisterium

101
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What are the books of the Bible included in the Jewish canon of Scripture?

A

Protocanonical

102
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What was an Old English rendering of the Greek for good news; the good news of God’s mercy and love revealed in the life, Death, and Resurrection of Christ?

A

Gospel

103
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What is the reason why a person comes to believe in God?

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Motive of faith

104
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Who was the second king of Israel, a “man after God’s own heart’?

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David