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