Truth Project Test 4, 6, 10 Flashcards

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What two treasures are found within that ultimate truth?

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Wisdom and knowledge.

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Colossians 2:2-3 states that the Ultimate source of Truth is?

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Christ.

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This conference was an attempt by man to capture the infinite essence of God’s nature.

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Westminster Confession.

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In seeking for understanding about eternal life, _____ were seeking miraculous signs.

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The Disciples.

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In seeking for understanding about eternal life, _____ was seeking factual evidence.

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Nicodemus.

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In seeking for understanding about eternal life, _____ was seeking satisfaction in life.

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Samaritan Woman.

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In seeking for understanding about eternal life, _____ were seeking for evidence through the works being done on earth.

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Jewish people.

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True or False: The search of the Word of God contains the answers to eternal life.

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False (only found in Jesus).

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How will people have eternal life?

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Whoever looks to Jesus and believes in Him.

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Who did Jesus pray for just prior to His crucifixion?

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For all of humanity.

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What did Jesus ask God for those in His prayer?

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That all humans may know God and Jesus.

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Hosea 6:6 and Jeremiah 9:23-24 shows that the knowledge of God is living by?

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Faith.

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Hosea 6:6 and Jeremiah 9:23-24 shows that the knowledge of man is seeking?

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Evidence.

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What are the two manners in which we can trust the Word of God?

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  1. It stands forever.

2. It is living and active.

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Those who do not believe in the Word of God will try to _____ it and _____ it.

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Discredit, minimize.

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In 1776, _____ mocked those who believed in God by stating that within 100 years of his death Bibles will only be found in museums.

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Voltaire.

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In 1985, _____ attempted to discredit the authority of the Bible by using science methods to conclude that 82% of the words attributed to Jesus we’re not spoken to him.

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Jesus Seminar.

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God shows His protection of us through his jealous protection of what we believe. The name of God that describes this is?

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El Qanna.

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Through this jealous protection, God shows His _____ when sin threatens our _____ relationship with Him.

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Zeal, covenant.

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Proverbs 12:1 teaches that we are to love _____ because God uses correction to keep us from living in a _____ of following sin.

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Discipline, lifestyle pattern.

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Those who do not know God, will be able to hear it through our _____.

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Love.

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The intense, committed study of the Word of God makes us all _____.

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Theologians.

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Who stated that non-believers have to come to be open to discovering an understanding about the existence of God and the trustworthiness of God’s Word in order to believe?

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R.C. Sproul

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23
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What does history provide?

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Reminders of what God has done through man.

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24
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Using history to tell the story of humanity is known as a _____ _____.

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Meta narrative.

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What is significant about 1859?

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Darwin’s “Origins of Species” was published.

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According to Historical Revisionism, what happens if you rewrite the past?

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You can make people believe whatever they want in the present.

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What was the example of Historical Revisionism given from Jesus’ death?

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The Romans guards false reporting of how Jesus’ body left the tomb.

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What was the example of Historical Revisionism given from the beginning of all Creation?

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Satan questioning Eve about, “Did God really say….”

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What was the example given of Historical Conditioning?

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The number 911.

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What is Natural Myopia?

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Nearsightedness (only focusing upon the present, not the future impact one will make).

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What is the Pilgrim’s Providential View of History?

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We are laying the stepping stones for future generations.

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Who will be unable to lay stepping stones for the benefit of those who follow them in history?

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Selfish individuals.

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What is the post-modernists view of the past?

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Everyone has their own past, there isn’t one true history that applies to all and therefore there isn’t a meta-narrative.

34
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According to the Truth Project, what you believe in the present is determined by what four components of your past?

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  1. Your education.
  2. Through experiences.
  3. Formal training.
  4. What you observed.
35
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According to 2 Corinthians 10:5, we are to take _____ every thought and make it _____ to Christ.

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Captive, obedient.

36
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What are Memorial Stones and what is their purpose?

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Items that remind people of what they have gone through.

37
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What is the lesson about History taught to us in Judges 2:10?

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It only took one generation to forget the provisions of God.

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Who said that we are receivers of tradition and that life does not begin or end with you?

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Dalrymple.

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This individual also stated that without history there isn’t any _____ or _____ to the present.

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Context, meaning.

40
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Who said that without history there is no sense of identity or wisdom of why and how we move forward?

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RC Sproul.

41
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What is the Mayflower Compact?

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The first written framework of government established in what is now the United States, and it cannot be understood without recognizing their faith in God.

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How many years after the following events or individual’s life were the oldest manuscripts of the following ancient works published?

  1. Homer’s Iliad:
  2. Julius Caesar’s Gallic Wars:
  3. Pliny’s History:
  4. Thucydides’ and Herodotus’ History:
  5. The New Testament:
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  1. 500 years.
  2. 1,000 years.
  3. 750 years.
  4. 1,300 years.
  5. 25 years.
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According to the Truth Project, the basis for the three branches of government comes from Isaiah 33 - what were the three descriptions and the branches described in Isaiah 33?

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  1. Lawgiver: Legislative (House and Senate) Branch
  2. Judge: Judicial Branch
  3. King: Executive Branch
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Who stated that “because men are not angels, we need rule of law”?

A

James Madison

45
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Who stated that “religion and morality are indispensable for human freedom”?

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George Washington

46
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What two actions were considered essential to education in early America?

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Biblical doctrine and prayer.

47
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What were the two best-selling books in early America used to accomplish the essential actions of education?

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The Bible and The New England Primer.

48
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What evidence is there that the earliest universities in America promoted the importance of Christianity in education?

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Mottos.

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What examples in Washington, DC were given to illustrate the history of Christianity in America?

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Murals, inscriptions, and statues.

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Who made the observation in early America, that liberty and virtue were connected in the relationship between church and state?

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Alexis de Tocqueville

51
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Who stated “only a virtuous nation can be free”?

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Benjamin Franklin

52
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Who stated that religion is the only solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religion and the duties of man towards God?

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Gouverneur Morris

53
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Who stated that “without virtue there can be no liberty”?

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Benjamin Rush

54
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Who stated that “our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other”?

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John Adams

55
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Who stated that “the great pillars of government and social life are virtue, morality, and religion”?

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Patrick Henry

56
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Who stated that “religion and good morals are the only solid foundations of public liberty and happiness”?

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Samuel Adams

57
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The founders of the Constitution (_____) established the separation of church and state in order to?

A

Protect the citizens from the government establishing an official religion and protect the government from having a religion imposed on it.

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The founders believed that individual Christians in the US performed their roles in order to _____ society, rather than to _____ upon society.

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Serve, impose God’s will.

59
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In 1869, Charles Elliot became the new president at Harvard and installed Christopher Columbus Langdell as the new head of Harvard law school - what method of law did he replace?

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Blackstone.

60
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What method did Langdell replace it with?

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Case Study Method.

61
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What is legal positivism?

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The belief that the foundations of all law is determined by the state.

62
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What is sociological jurisprudence?

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The belief that the law must change as the culture changes.

63
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What US Supreme Court justice promoted sociological jurisprudence?

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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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Western Civilization is a combination of what four contributing cultural influences?

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Christianity, Judaism, Roman law, and Greek culture.

65
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Explain why Christians have a unique understand of sovereignty.

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Sovereignty is freedom from external control. In order to be free from sin we are required to give up our freedom to choose selfishness and submit to a higher authority.

66
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To impact the culture, we are to develop strong Christian _____, which will become a _____ that impacts the culture.

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Habits, lifestyle.