Mid-term

Question 0

3 Ways OT is reliable

Answer 0

Textual transmission
Archeology
Documentary

Question 1

Discuss God Breathed and Inerrancy

Answer 1

God Breathed: means inspired in Greek
Inerrancy: without error because a perfect God can’t make a perfect mistake
Pneustos - breathed
Theo - God

Question 2

Archeological data confirmed through artifact evidence

Answer 2

Sodom and Gomorrah
Jericho
David’s tunnels

Question 3

C.S. Lewis quote

Answer 3

“We may ignore, but we can not evade the pretense of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito.”

Question 4

Prophets rule

Answer 4

Deuteronomy 18:22 - “When a prophet speaketh in the name of the Lord, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the Lord hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously; thou shalt not be afraid of Him.”

Question 5

Examples of OT Prophecy fulfilled

Answer 5

Destruction of Edom
Destruction of Tyre
Destruction of Ninevah
Fall of Babylon

Question 6

OT and Cosmology

Answer 6

God made the earth to work like clockwork.

Scientists say there are 100+ billion stars, the bible says that the number of stars is immeasurable.

Question 7

Ordered system

Answer 7

An ordered system is every observation humanity has made about the physical universe was made possible because of the system is: ordered, predictable, logical, and consistent.

Question 8

Shape the Earth

Answer 8

Isaiah 40:22

Job 26:10

Question 9

Biblical position on energy and matter

Answer 9

Matter and energy can’t be created. Everything in existence was created by the spoken word of God. No matter or energy is capable of spontaneous creation. Matter and energy can’t be destroyed. God upholds all things by his power.

Question 10

Why was the OT written in Hebrew?

Answer 10

Biblical Hebrew is a pure language. It’s tri-language and pictographic least number of loan words

Question 11

How does the OT compare in terms of reliability to ancient texts?

Answer 11

Over 24,000 manuscripts that do not contradict each other.

Question 12

What precautions were taken in the transmission of the text?

Answer 12

The Masoretes made a way to preserve Hebrew pronunciation; The addition of vowel points to the consonants.They standardized Hebrew punctuation and spelling.
This preserved the language for next generations.

Question 13

How did ancient Hebrews view the sacred text?

Answer 13

Copied with extreme precision.

Newer copy was preferred.

Question 14

What is the value of the Dead Sea Scrolls?

Answer 14

Oldest Mss of OT.
Validated mss.
Masoretes did copy with minor spelling.

Question 15

Breakdown of OT

Answer 15

Pentateuch
Historical
Poetry
Major prophets
Minor prophets

Question 16

Breakdown of NT

Answer 16

Gospels
Acts
Pauline Epistles
Hebrews
General Epistles
Revelation

Question 17

5 Literary Devices

Answer 17

Alliteration
Hyperbole
Idiom
Simile
Symbolism

Question 18

Stats

Answer 18

1500 years of writing
More than 40 authors 
Written in various locations 
Written on 3 continents
Written in 3 languages (Hebrew, Greek, Aramaic)

Question 19

Page 46 quote

Answer 19

Allegations of error in the Bible are usually based on a failure to recognize basic principles of interpreting ancient literature l.

Question 20

5 principles of internal evidence

Answer 20

1. The unexplained is not necessarily unexplainable.
2. Understand the context of the passage.
3. Don’t base teaching on obscure passages.
4. The Bible uses non-technical, everyday language.
5. An error in a copy does not equate to an error in the original.

Question 21

Early Christians who support Bible

Answer 21

Papias
Eusebius
Irenaeus
Clement of Rome
Ignatius 
Polycarp

Question 22

Non-Christians that support the Bible

Answer 22

Tacticus
Suetonius
Josephus
Thallus
Pliny the Younger
Emperor Trajan
Talmud