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Study Guide 3 Flashcards

1
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What is the difference between general revelation and special revelation?

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General revelation: The insight into God’s character that history, human behavior, conscience, and nature provide. It is available to all and appeals to reason

Special revelation: In love, God can give special revelation to help interpret God‘s testimony

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Who is the focus of scripture and what does the cross reveal about Him

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Jesus Christ is the focus of scripture. Jesus’s death on the cross is the ultimate revelation of God’s character

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Who is the divine source of the Bible? Who wrote the Bible and over what time period?

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The Holy Spirit is the divine source of the Bible. God wrote the Bible over a period of more than 1500 years

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What is inspiration?

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Inspiration means God-Breathed; Inspiration is the process through which God communicates his eternal truth

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How were the writers of the Bible inspired?

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Through the Holy Spirit

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6
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The Bible writers were Gods ___ not His ___

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Penmen

Pen

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What does it mean to say that the Bible writers were gods Penman not his pen

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This means that God inspired man to write but it was the man’s views and thoughts

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What are some of the different ways in which Bible writers were inspired

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1) visions
2) dreams
3) God speaking audibly or to inner senses
4) symbolic representation
5) oral instruction

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9
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Why were the Gospels written?

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The gospels were written to give an account of Jesus’ life from different perspectives

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Did Jesus believe in the authority of the Old Testament

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Jesus strongly believed in the authority of the Old Testament

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How are the old and New Testament’s inseparable

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1) They do not contradict each other.
2) they are one as God is one
3) The old testament provides the key to unlock the New Testament while the new testament explains mysteries of the Old Testament

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What evidence is there for the reliability of the Bible? Give 4 evidences

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1) Prophecy: The Bible continuously fulfills prophecy, such as Babylon and Sidon
2) archaeology: Moabite stone was discovered in 1868 at Dibon, Jordan, confirming Moabite attacks on Isreal as recorded in second kings 2-3
3) cohesive unity: evidence of the Bibles inspiration includes its cohesive unity. In more than 3000 places, the Bible declares itself inspired. It does not contradict itself.
4) Accuracy: certainly, it is inconceivable that a book so accurate through the centuries could be considered anything less then inspired by God

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13
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Approximately__ different human authors wrote the Bible over a ___ year period

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40

2000

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14
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There are _ testaments

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2

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15
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The Bible has a total of _ books

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66

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16
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The Old Testament consists of _ books

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39

17
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The Old Testament consists of what 3 things

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1) The law
2) The prophets
3) The writings

18
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The New Testament consists of _ books

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27

19
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The New Testament consists of what 5 things

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1) the gospels
2) Acts of apostles
3) Letters of Paul
4) General Epistles
5) Revelation

20
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The Old Testament was written in ___

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Hebrew

21
Q

The language during Christ’s time was ___

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Aramaic

22
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The New Testament was written in __

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Green

23
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There was a translation of the old testament into Greek that was called the ____

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Septuagint LXX

24
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The entire Bible was translated into ___ in the 4th century

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Latin

25
Q

What important discovery was made in 1947

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Dead sea scrolls

26
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What was in the Dead Sea Scrolls

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Many Scripps of Isaiah dating back to 100 years before Christ was found

27
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Name 2 archaeological discoveries that prove that we can trust the New Testament

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1) Pool of Bethesda

2) Acts 13

28
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How was the New Testament canon list of approved books developed

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1) had to be written by an apostle
2) had to be genuine
3) it had to be validated by the church

29
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It took about ___ Years for the New Testament to reach its final form, because books like Hebrews and revelation were disputing

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400

30
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The gnostic Gospels were not accepted because they were written__ the fact with ___ ____

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After

Fake news

31
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What is the apocrypha

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Collection of religious writings that the LXX and Vulgate Contain that are not included in the Jewish or protestant canon

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