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What were local places of worship where Jews gathered to read the Old Testament?

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synogogues

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What were non-Jews called?

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Gentiles

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Who were Gentiles who heard the Word of God and joined the Jews in longing for the Messiah?

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proselytes

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What means “Annointed One” in Hebrew?

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Messiah

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Who was the local king and deputy of Rome who rules Judea in Palestine?

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Herod the Great

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What is the true king of the Jews and Savior of all mankind who was born in Bethelehem of Judea?

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Jesus Christ

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What were the 12 men who Jesus appointed to carry on His work of preaching and teaching after His death, resurrection, and ascension called?

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apostles

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What were local assemblies or bodies of believers?

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churches

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What was verbally inspired by God in its entirety and penned by apostles or be men who had an extremely close relationship to an apostle?

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New Testament

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By what year had all 27 books of the New Testament been completed?

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A.D. 100

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Who were Christians who faced torture and death but caused the ranks of Christianity to swell with new converts?

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martyrs

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Who was the early church father who declared “The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church”?

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Tertullian

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Who instigated the first major persecution of Christians by the Romans in A.D. 64?

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Nero

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Who was the apostle that was beheaded during the reign of Nero because of his Christian faith?

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the apostle Paul

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Who was the apostle who was martyred during the reign of Nero and was condemned to by crucified but insisted on being crucified upside down?

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the apostle Peter

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Who demanded to be worshiped as a god, began the second great persecution of Christians, and exiled the apostle John?

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Domitian

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Who was the apostle that was the author of the Book of the Revelation?

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John

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What was the island that the apostle John was exiled to?

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the Isle of Patmos

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What was the book that was written by the apostle John in which he recorded his prophetic vision?

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Book of Revelation

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What were vast galleries beneath the city of Rome that the persecuted Christians used for refuge, worship, and burial?

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catacombs

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About how many Christians lie buried in the catacombs?

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between 2 and 7 million

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Who began the third great persecution of Christians when he made the profession of Christianity a capital crime?

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Trajan

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Who was thrown to the wild beasts in the Colosseum during the reign of Trajan?

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Ignatius

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Who was 86 years old when he was arrested and martyred under the reign of Trajan in A.D. 155?

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Polycarp

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What was the Roman emperor who began the fourth great persecution of Christians and was an ardent hater of Christians?
Marcus Aurelius
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Who was thrown to the wild beasts under the reign of Marcus Aurelius?
Justin Martyr
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Who was a Christian slave girl who was horribly tortured from morning until night because of her faith?
Blandina
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Who began the fifth great persecution of Christians that was particularly fierce in North Africa and Egypt?
Septimus Severes
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Who was the pupil of Polycarp and was the bishop of the Lyons in Gaul?
Irenaeus
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Who was gored to death with her faithful servant by savage beasts at Carthage in 203?
Perpetua
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Who was Perpetua's faithful slave?
Felicitas
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Who began the sixth persecution of Christians by ordering the death of all church leaders, many of whom were martyred?
Maximinus Thrax
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Who was the Roman emperor who began the seventh persecution of Christian that was even worse than the preceding six and required that all inhabitants of the empire to sacrifice to the ancient God's?
Decius
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Who was a Christian philosopher and theologian from Alexandria who escaped the persecution under Maximinus Thrax but was so horrible mutilated in Decius's persecution that he died shortly thereafter?
Origen
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Who was the church father who had written of Decius's persecution: "The whole world is devastated"?
Cypiran of Cartage
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Who began the eighth persecution of Christians that was even fiercer that Decius's?
Valerian
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Who initiated the ninth persecution of Christians but was murdered shortly thereafter by his own soldiers?
Aurelian
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Who demanded to be worshiped as Jupiter incarnate and was known as the "reforming" emperor because he began the tenth and greatest persecution?
Diocletian
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Who proclaimed toleration for the Christians in the East in 311?
Galerius
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Who extended legal protection and recognition to Christians throughout the Roman empire?
Constantine I
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What was the edict that proclaimed the legalization of Christianity?
Edict of Milan
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When did the Edict of Milan proclaim the legalization of Christianity?
313
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What were the preachers and teachers who were able me to expound on the Scriptures, defend the faith, and champion the cause of Christ?
church elders
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Who was prominent among the earliest writers and was commended by the apostle Paul in the New Testament?
Clement of Rome
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What were the three pupils of the apostle John?
Ignacius, Polycarp, and Papias
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Who were those who attempted to reasonably defend Christianity against pagan defamations?
apologists
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Who were the two men who each presented an Apology to Antunius Rius?
Aristides and Justin Martyr
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Who was a pupil of Justin Martyr who completed the first harmony of the Gospels and proved the superiority of Christianity and Greek philosophy and religion?
Tatian
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Who was the greatest of the apologist?
Justin Martyr
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Who wrote against gnosticism in his work Against All Heresies?
Irenaeus
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What was the religion that combines the elements of Greek philosophy, Oriental religion, and Christian theology, into a complex system of error that attacked the very foundations of Christianity?
Gnosticism
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Who contended against the heresy of Monachianism?
Tertullian
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What was the religion that denied the doctrine of the Trinity?
Monarchianism
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Who was the first to use the term "Trinity" to explain the truth that the One God eternally exists in Three Persons?
Tertullian
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Who was a theologian from Alexandria who was perhaps the most learned man in the early church and wrote the first book of systematic theology in the early church?
Origen
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Who eloquently and passionately argued for the true deity of Christ at the Counsil of Nicea?
Athanasius
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Who translated the Scriptures out of Hebrew and Greek into the common Bible of the early Western church?
Jerome
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What was the common Bible of the early Western church?
Latin Vulgate
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Who were the two men who publicly expounded on the Scriptures?
Ambrose of Milan and John Chrysostom
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Who was the greatest of the church fathers and the most important figure in church history between the apostle Paul and Martin Luther?
Augustine of Hippo
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Which of Augustine's books was where Augustine bared his soul before God as he recounted his life of sin before his conversion to Christ?
Confessions
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Which of Augustine's works was the first systematic Christian philosophy of history?
City of God
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What are confessions of faith?
creeds
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What was the earliest creed which was developed between the second and fifth centuries from the questions asked of new converts at their baptisms?
Apostles' Creed
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What was the creed that was adopted to reject the teching of Arianism?
Nicaea Creed
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What counsel adopted the Nicaea Creed?
Counsil of Nicaea
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When did the Counsil of Nicaea adopt the Nicaea Creed?
A.D. 325
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What was a third great creed that was named for Athanasius and took its place beside the Apostles' and Nicaea Creeds?
Athanasian
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Who declared Christianity to be the only legal faith and the state religion of the Roman Empire?
Theodosius I
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Who were the church elders?
presbyters
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Who were priests who offered up the Lord's body and blood as a sacrifice for the living and dead?
sacerdotes

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