Number 8 Flashcards
What is the subtitle of Colossians?
Christ as the Preeminent Head of the Church
__________was a small city located in the ______Valley 90 miles east of Ephesus in Asia-Minor (modern Turkey).
Colosse, LycusValley
Colosse was located on a major trade route at the mid-point between the ancient East and West making it the merging point between Eastern and Western _____and _______
thought and philosophy
There was a predominant emphasis on ___,_____, _____ ____ and an _____ concept of combining the best parts of all religions.
pluralism, tolerance, open mindedness, and an ecumenical
This ______ ________ was unfortunately making its way into the Colossian Church.
ecumenical pluralism
The cities of _____ and __________ were also located in the Lycus valley
Laodicea and Hierapolis
The church at Colosse was probably founded by ______who also evangelized Laodicea and Hierapolis
Epaphras
Colossians was also to be sent to the city of _________ in this same valley.
Laodicea
The church of Colosse may have met in the home of _______
Philemon
The church at Colosse was infected with an early form of Judaistic-__________
Gnosticism
The deadly J-G Virus taught that Salvation could only be obtained by a secret mystical deeper spiritual __________
Knowledge. Available only to the super spiritual who had been initiated into their secret mysteries.
____________itself was seen as inherently evil. Only in the spirit realm could purity exist.
Matter
The solved the problem of how a good God could have created an evil world by saying that God did not Himself ________ the _____ ___
Create the physical universe
The Corinthians believed that God had created an _______who created an ______who created an _______, etc.
angel, angel, angel. The last of these emanations from God called the Dimerge, was far enough removed from the holiness of God to be able to create this evil world.
They believed that Jesus was one of the angelic emanations from God and that he was therefore not _____God.
Fully
Because they believed that the material body of Jesus was inherently evil, Gnostics separated between the man ______ and the _____Spirit.
Jesus and Christ Spirit
They believed that the Christ Spirit came on Jesus at His Baptism and left just before His death on the cross.
TRUE
They believed that God communicated knowledge to the truly spiritual elite on a ______spiritual or mystical level, directly in their hearts.
higher
They believed spirituality comes from the ______in, through asceticism and legalistic observance of commandments.
Outside
They taught that believers are still under the _____of the O.T.
Law
Unable to deal with all these problems, _________traveled 1,000 miles to Rome to seek Paul’s help.
Epaphras
_________(probably Philemon’s son)took over as interim pastor
Archippus
Paul attacks _____false “isms” of this heresy.
3
1st ism - Great emphasis was placed on adherence to sacred days, seasons, rituals, circumcision, dietary and Sabbath observations from the Jewish law.
Ritualism
2nd ism- Self denial
Asceticism
3rd ism - Claims of visions and revelations, and the worship of angels
Mysticism
Key word of Colossians?
Christ
Theme of Colossians?
Preeminence of Christ
Importance of Colossians?
Colossians is considered the most Christ-centered of all the Epistles.
___________Shows us the Church as the Body of Christ
Ephesians
________shows us Christ as the Head of the Church
Colossians
Colossians and Ephesians are so similar that fully ____ of the ____ verses in Colossians are nearly identical to verses in Ephesians.
78, 95
Colossians was the partner of ________
Philemon - These books were not only written and sent by Paul at the same time, but they were also sent to the same city and the same church. The Colossian Church met in Philemon’s home.
Colossians is one of Paul’s _______Prison epistles.
4 - along with Ephesians, Philippians, and Philemon
