Quiz 1

Question 1

What is Truth?

Answer 1

Something with the quality of being true

Question 2

What is Belief?

Answer 2

The acceptance that something exists or that a statement is true

Question 3

What is Faith?

Answer 3

Complete trust of confidence in something or someone

Question 4

What is General revelation?

Answer 4

God’s manifestation through history, nature, and the human experience that is accessible by anyone, anywhere.

Question 5

What is Special Revelation ?

Answer 5

The manifestations of Himself to a particular persons, enabling the person to come into a redemptive relationship with Him.

Question 6

How many books are in the Old Testament?

Answer 6

39

Question 7

How many books are in the New Testament?

Answer 7

27 (think Bree’s Bday)

Question 8

What is the time frame of the Old Testament?

Answer 8

Creation to before Jesus’s birth

Question 9

What is the time frame of the New Testament?

Answer 9

Jesus’s birth, life, and anything that happened after.

Question 10

Who wrote the Bible?

Answer 10

About 40 people, by shepards, kings, prophets, and apostles, between 1500 BC-96 AD

Question 11

How did writers get their material?

Answer 11

1. Dictation - When writes write down what God said to write, usually in their own words
2. Eyewitnesses - People writing down their experience from memory
3. Research

Question 12

1/3 Bible myth

Answer 12

“The OG bible has been lost in translation”

The Bible has many old manuscripts that line up with our current copies!

Question 13

2/3 BIble myth

Answer 13

The writers write novels or lies

Bible writers risked their lives for what they wrote. They were threatened and killed, yet still stuck with their story.

Question 14

3/3 Bible myth

Answer 14

The Bible is sexist

The bible was written during a sexist age, yet promotes equality before God

Question 15

Define Modalities

Answer 15

The different manners God presents himself or his will to the world

Question 16

List 5 modalities

Answer 16

1. Theophanies (visible manifestations or appearances of God)
2. Dreams and visions
3. Angels
4. Miracles and signs
5. Casting of lots (not magical)

Question 17

what is the difference between inspiration and illumination?

Answer 17

inspiration is the relaying of that truth from the first recipients of it to another person, whether then or later

Illumination is a divine act by which God enables any person in a right relationship with Him to come to a correct understanding of what he has revealed

Question 18

What’s the fill-in-the-blank we need to memorize?

Answer 18

The Bible helps us know God without actually seeing Him face-to-face

Question 19

What are the inspiration models (7)

Answer 19

Dictation: God told bible writers what to write, word for word.

Thought: God gave ideas to bible writers, who chose their own words based on God’s ideas

Whole person: God gave the ideas to Bible writers and then allowed them to choose the words based on the ideas, though they incorporated their culture, emotions, and life experiences

Illumination: God guides us to something inspired, then directs us by bringing enlightenment.

Community: The community is the inspiration, not the Bible

Experience: Experience is primary in communicating with God, not the Bible

Verbal-plenary: God is disconnected from history and time, and lives outside of it all.