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51 Cards in this Set
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How many testaments are in the Bible?
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2 (New and Old)
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How many Old Testament books in Protestant Bible?
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39 (Does not include the 7 books written in Greek)
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How many Old Testament books in Catholic Bible?
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46
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Who decided that the 7 Greek books would not be included in the Protestant Bible?
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Martin Luther
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How are the Old Testament and New Testament interconnected?
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They both deal with God's relationships. OT talks about God's relationships with the Patriarchs (Abraham), and the NT deals with God's relationships through Jesus.
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What are the two types of inspiration in the Bible?
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Verbal and Non Verbal (Contextual)
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What are the two types of inerrancy in the Bible?
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Total and Religious
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What question does Biblical Inerrancy answer?
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Aren't there mistakes in the Bible?
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What does TaNaK stand for?
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Torah, Nevi'im and Kesuvim
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What does Torah mean?
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Law
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What does Nevi'im mean?
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Prophets
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What does Kesuvim mean?
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Writings
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Name the 4 divisions of the Old Testament (according to Christians)
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Pentateuch
Historical Books Wisdom Prophets |
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What does Pentateuch mean?
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First 5 books of the Bible
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Name the first 5 books of the Bible (The Pentateuch)
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Genesis
Exodus Leviticus Numbers Deuteronomy |
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What are the 2 types of writings found in the Pentateuch?
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History and Laws
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What is the oldest section of the Bible?
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Exodus ( The Psalm of Miriam; Exodus 15)
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When was the Psalm of Miriam written?
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12th century BCE (Before the Common Era)
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What is a canon?
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Rule List; The books of the Bible.
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When was the Christian canon set?
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4th century
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How did the Bible come about? (4 steps)
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Oral traditions
Primitive lists of stories Redacted (edited) stories Autograph manuscripts (final edited text) |
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What is the Bible's basic storyline?
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The story of one loving relationship through history between a people and their God
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What does it mean to say that the Bible is the living word of God?
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Becomes alive in us through the Wesleyan Quadrilateral
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What is the Wesleyan Quadrilateral?
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The four ways that we encounter God;
Scripture Tradition Experience Reason |
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What does verbal inspiration mean?
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Exactly what is written is truth (Islamic faith)
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What does non-verbal inspiration mean?
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God revealed himself to the chosen few. There may be discrepancies
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What is total inerrancy?
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The Bible is without errors in all matters
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What is religious inerrancy?
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The Bible is without errors in matters that deal with our salvation.
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What are the two ways that the Bible can be interpreted?
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Fundamentalist- Word for word dictation
Contextual- Stresses historical context |
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What are the five criticism's in the contextual approach to interpretation?
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Historical
Textual Form Source Redaction |
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The Old Testament covers how many years of writing?
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1000
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When was the Jewish canon set?
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2nd century CE (common era)
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What does the word "testament" mean?
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covenant
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Biblical Authority: What does the Propositional Truths Model say?
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The Bible is totally inerrant; It is a collection of moral truths; Bible is an answer book, like an owner's manual. View of Evangelicals
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Biblical Authority: What does the Transformative Word Model say?
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The Bible has authority because it can change people's lives; Not an answer book; View of Protestants.
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Biblical Authority: What does the Narration of God's Identity Model say?
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Bible tells story of who God is and what we are called to be.
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What are the Jewish divisions of the Bible?
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Torah, Nevi'im and Ketuvim; Law, Prophets and Writings
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Highlights from the Historical Books
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-Settle in the Promised Land
-The rise of King David -The return from exile -The Jewish resistence to Greek domination (Not in Protestant bibles) |
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Highlights from the Wisdom Literature
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-Search for the meaning of life
-Discover moral lessons in everyday experiences -Good and wise living will be rewarded. |
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Highlights from the Prophets
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-Gave warnings against idolatry
-God would forgive their sins if they turned to him |
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What was the first gospel to be written?
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Mark
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What was the last gospel written?
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John
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Who wrote the apocolyptic writings of the Book of Revelation?
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John
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What is the Septuagint?
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A collection of 46 books of ancient Jewish Scriptures written in Greek.
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The Yahwist source of the Torah
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-Focused on the southern kingdom of Judah
-Emphasized God's closeness to humanity -Anthropomorphic |
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The Elohist source of the Torah
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-Referred to God as Elohi or Lord
-Focused on the northern kingdom of Israel -God speaks through symbols |
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The Deuteronomist source of the Torah
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-Emphasized the law as the foundation of the kingdom of Judah
-Emphasis on obedience -Called people back |
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The Preistly source of the Torah
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-Portrayed God as more distant
-Formal writings -Concerned with worship (the Sabbath) |
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What is a prophet?
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Someone called by God to speak on God's behalf to the people and to deliver a message
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Where can you find the only true apocolyptic text in the Old Testament?
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Book of Daniel
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Which was written first in the Genesis creation stories?
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Genesis II
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