Test 2: Lecture notes Flashcards
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Letters also known as?
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Epistles
2
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One of the divisions of the NT
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Letters
3
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How many letters are from Paul?
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13.
Some to churches & some to individuals
4
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General letters are not written by Paul T or F?
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True
5
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What are the SIX parts to every letter?
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- Name of the writer
- Name of the recipient
- A greeting
- A prayer, wish or thanksgiving
- The body
- Closing
6
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The closing can include
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A final greeting Last minute instructions A final request A personal note from the author (If someone other than the author wrote the letter)
7
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Letters are _______
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Occasioned documents
8
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What is the first rule of interpretation?
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The text cannot mean what it never meant to its author or the readers
9
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What is the second rule of interpretation?
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Gods word to us is the same as His Word to them
10
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Who wrote 1&2 peter?
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Peter
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What was the problem with the authorship?
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Use of Greek
12
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What was a main theme of peter?
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Suffering
13
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Second peter problems:
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Relation to Jude
Differences in literary style from first peter
Reference to Paul’s letter in scripture
14
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Part two of the book of Acts
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Paul’s missionary to the gentiles
15
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Key person is not peter but _______
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Paul
16
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Acts:
Key city is not Jerusalem but ______
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Antioch
17
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Key recipients are not Jews but_______
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Gentiles
18
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Who was selected by the Holy Spirit?
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Barnabas and Saul
19
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Who is the cousin of Barnabas?
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John mark
20
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Who is the “son” of peter
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John mark
21
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Writer of the second gospel
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John mark
22
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First church to reach out to the gentiles?
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Antioch
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First church we have recorded of sending benevolent aid to others
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Antioch
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Disciples called _____ first in Antioch
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Christian’s
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First church with world-wide vision of evangelism
Antioch
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Encounter with barjesus (Elymas)
Paphos
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Effect of encounter on proconsul
Paphos
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What island is paphos on?
Cyprus
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Where is Saul now called Paul?
Paphos
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Travel to psidan Antioch: sabbath is where?
At the synagogue
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Travel to Psidan to Antioch: pauls first recorded speech is similar to who's preaching ?
Peters
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Psidian Antioch many ____ reject the message after _____ gentiles readily accept it
1. Jews
| 2. Gentiles
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From Antioch of Psidia to Iconium:
Refusal of ____ to believe
Jews
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Where does the Plot to kill Paul so he and Barnabas move on happen?
From Antioch of Psidia to iconium
35
Healing of a lame man happens where?
Lystra
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Why did the people of lystra respond the way they did to Paul and Barnabas?
Stories of gods coming down in human forms
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Paul's speech to the people of Lystra contrasting gods with God Jews from iconium come and stir up trouble what happens to Paul?
Paul is stoned and left for dead but gets up and goes back into the city
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Acts 15 is the chapter of _______
Controversy
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Paul goes from Lystra to _____
Derbe
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From Derbe to home
Where is home?
Antioch
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A conference in ______
Jerusalem
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What was the two disagreements at the conference in Jerusalem?
Doctrine and circumcision being essential to salvation
43
Both groups go to Jerusalem to meet with the leaders T or F?
True
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What was the conclusion at conference in Jerusalem?
God accepts the gentiles but they don't have to become Jews. Instead abstain from food polluted by idols sexual immortal and meat that still had blood in it as well as the drinking of blood.
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What was sent to inform the churches of the decision
A letter
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Who disagrees over John mark
Paul and Barnabas
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Paul and Barnabas felt so strong that they ______
Split ways
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Paul moves on to second missionary journey with?
Silas
49
Barnabas takes John mark back to ______
The island of Cyprus
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What is the classification of James
A general letter
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Who wrote James?
James the brother of Jesus
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Date James was written
Sometime between 50 and 60 ad
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James contains
Practical living-- how to act like a Christian
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Audience of James
Twelve tribes
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Classification of Galatians
A letter of Paul to the churches of Galatia
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Why was Galatians written?
Christianity rooted in Jewish history
| * another sect within Judaism
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What was the purpose of Galatians?
Problems of gentiles coming into Christianity, a Jewish based religion
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Galatians relation to _____?
Acts
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When was Galatians written?
48-49 AD
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Paul's second missionary journey: where does Paul go?
He revisits the churches established on the first journey
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Who joins the group on the second missionary journey?
Timothy
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Who circumcises Timothy?
Paul
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Who has a Jewish mother and a Greek father
Timothy
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Where does Paul get a vision of man from Macedonia
Troas
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Paul is prevented by the Holy Spirit from entering other areas T or F?
True
66
Another addition: who joins the group?
Luke
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What happens when the Luke joins the group
We sections of Acts begin
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Where does the conversion of Lydia take place?
Philippi
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Paul deals with a ____
Demon possessed slave girl
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How was the demon possessed slave girl making money?
Fortune telling For her master
71
Pythian spirit
From mythology (python the snake)
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Demonic power always recognizes and is inferior to God's power. T or F?
True
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3 things happen when Paul is in prison in Philippi what are they?
1. Paul and Silas praise God at midnight
2. Earthquake freeing prisoners
3. The conversion of the jailer and his household
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Paul and the city magistrates
First time we learn of Paul's Roman citizenship
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Who's the author and the recipient of Philippians?
Author: Paul and Timothy
Recipients: to all saints in Christ Jesus
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Philippians was written in the 60s. Where was Paul and Timothy?
Prison in Rome
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Purpose and key terms of Philippians
Encouragement
| Thanksgiving for gift
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Philippians thoughts and verses
Paul's view of death
Christ hymn
Knowing Christ= sharing in his suffering
It's a mind thing
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Where does Paul go on his second missionary journey part 2:
Thessalonica
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Metropolitan area
Part of major east/west trade route called the Egnatian way
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Paul's custom
Goes to the synagogue first
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What two things happen at the synagogue?
1) always some who believe and some who don't and oppose it
| 2) those who don't round up bad characters from the market place and stir up riot
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Paul was sent away __________
In the middle of the night for fear of his life
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Paul goes from Thessalonica to
Berea
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Berea church
Of more noble character than the Thessalonians--- they searched for the scriptures
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Who comes from thessalonica come and stir up trouble in berea?
Jews
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Paul leaves for ______ and leaves Silas and Timothy behind in thessalonica
Athens
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Who wrote 1 & 2 Thessalonians
Paul Silas and Timothy
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Date Thessalonians was written?
51-52ad
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Background information of Thessalonians is from?
Acts 16-17
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Clues from?
Philippians 4:16, 1 Thessalonians 2:7-11
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What book does Paul leave Timothy and Silas?
First and second Thessalonians
93
Timothy arrives and the letter is written.
Corinth
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Importantance of Gallio
Proconsul of Corinth. Gallio inscription
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Significance of first and second Thessalonians
They are the earliest letters
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Theme of the Thessalonians
The second coming of Christ --parousia
