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Who was Josephus?

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A Jewish historian who describes Jesus as a wise man and a doer of wonderful works

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Inspired texts

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Writings whose authors were inspired by the holy spirit

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Who was tacticus

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A roman historian who disliked Christians and described their persecution by Nero

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Who was Pliny the younger?

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A roman governor who wrote to Trajan asking what to do about the Christians. Disliked Christians; often tortured and interrogated them

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Who was Suetonius?

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A roman historian in 120 CE who describes how claudius expelled the Jews from Rome

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How many books are in the new testament?

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27

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What do the gospels talk about?

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The life, works, message, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ

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What are acts of the apostles?

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Likes account of the early days of the Christian community under st Peter

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How many Pauline epistles were written by paul?

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7

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What was the purpose of the Pauline epistles?

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To support and further educate individual Christians and small communities

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What is the purpose of the letter to the Hebrews?

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To aid Christians who are in danger of falling away from thei faith

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What are the catholic epistles?

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A collection of letters by James, Peter (two letters), John (three letters), and Jude that address Christians as a general audience

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What do the origins of the word gospel suggest about the purpose of the gospels?

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Gospel comes from Good News, suggesting at the gospels are meant to spread the good news

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Why are the three stages of development of the gospels?

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1)Jesus of Nazareth and his disciples 2) the disciples and the early community of faith 3) the evangelists

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John is very ______

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Poetic

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Why happened on mount sainai?

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God revealed the 10 commandments to Moses

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Who were the Sadducees?

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The priestly class who worked with Hewish political leaders

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What were ancient Jewish meals like?

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It was very sacred affair,

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What was some of the most common foods?

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Bread and fish

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How did Christians view death by crucifixion?

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It was considered a shameful death for criminals

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Which writings of the new testament came first?

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The epistles

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In what way do the epistles differ from the goapels?

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The gospels aim to preserve Jesus’ story while the epistles are a means to communicate

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Why would Paul not have expected his tellers to be preserved?

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He expected the end of the world to be approaching very soon

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Why would Paul have felt at home with both Jews and Gentiles?

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Paul grew up Jewish in tarsus. However l, Greek culture was very prevalent in tarsus

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Why does Paul have two names? And what ate they?
Paul and Saul. Saul was his Jewish name, Paul was the name he was known by the Romans
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Vocation
When one is called forewarned by god for a specific purpose
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What issues are the main focus of Paul's epistles?
Personal morality and spirituality
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Ancient palestines geography was
Diverse, there were lakeshores an hillsides
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Ancient Palestine could have ______ temperatures
Extreme: frigid nights and hot days
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In jesus time water was
Scarce
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Meals were considered
Sacred
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People rarely ate
Meat
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Who built the great temple of Jerusalem?
Herod
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The temple was a place of
Offering, prayer, and governing
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Sabbath began at ______ and lasted until ______.
Midnight friday, Saturday morning
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Rosh Hashanah was_____
The Jewish new year
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Yom kipper was ____
The day of anointment
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The high priest was
The head of the priestly castle, had so much influence politicians wanted to be on his good side
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The sadducees were _____ in politics but _____ in religion
Liberal, conservative
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The Pharisees were
The chief political and religions rivals of the Sadducees
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The Pharisees were ______ in politics and _____ in religion
Conservative, liberal
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Jesus thought the kingdom of god was
The vision of an ideal future
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A patriarchal community focuses on
The father
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Earlier, Jews believed the kingdom of god would be
Established by a savior with political and military leadership
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Jesus rejected what ideas about the kingdom of god
That it would have boundaries and borders
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Abba
The word Jesus referred to god as to show his intimate relationship as god as his father. Daddy
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Conversion
A change in heart towards ones attitude towards god
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Nationalism
The Jewish sense of excessive pride for your culture and a sense of separation from others
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Legalism
A domination of the law over every sense of the Jewish life
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Sin
Personal freely chosen action that has negative effects on the sinner and their relationships with others
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Jesus special stories are
Parables that he used to explain the complex nature of the kingdom
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The beatitudes reveal three lessons
The kingdoms fullfilment is yet to come. the kingdom is in our midst l. The kingdom requires a life of love
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The beatitudes call....
Christian to a life of service
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The sermon on the mount
Collection of short sayings of Jesus
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Short sayings are
Short sayings that are highly thought provoking
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Pronouncement stories
Popular in ancient cultures and used to tell an important point needed for the society
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Two examples of pronouncement stories are
Responding to a scribe and picking corn on the sabbath
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A parable for what?
Compares two different things to illustrate a point
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4 themes of parables are
Descriptions of the kingdom How we should act to enter the kingdom Our relationships with others Te future of gods kingdom
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What are the 4 types of prayer
Thanks Wow Gimme Oops
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What do Muslims teach about thanks
That of we say thank u for the small things we will not fogey to say thank u for the big things
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Example of Islamic prayer
It is god who made the night for you, that u may rest therein
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What do Buddhists teach about thanks
That we can never give enough thanks
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Example of a Buddhist thanks prayer
You the world honored one are a great giver of things
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Why does Christianity teach about thanks?
That Jesus offers a way to give thanks to god
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What is an example of a Christian thanks prayer
Whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the lord Jesus Christ
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Why does Judaism think about thanks
That we must say thank you prayer not just at good times but at all times
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Example of a Jewish thanks prayer
You are blessed, O Lord our god, who has kept us alive and sustained
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Example of Hindu WOW prayer
Ommm we meditate upon the glorious splendor of the holy one who makes life
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What is an example of a Jewish WoW prayer
You ate blessed I lord our god king of the universe
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What is an example of a Christian GIMME prayer?
Give u our daily bread and forgoes us out depts
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What is an example of a gimme prayer from the miser tribe
Our father it is thy universe, it is thy will/ let us be at peace
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What is an example of a Jewish gimme prayer
May the lord bless and keep you
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What is an example of a gimme Hindu prayer
From the unreal lead me to the real
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Example of a Muslim gimme prayer
Our lord... Terror forgive our sins and take us our evil deeds
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Why is yom kipper for
To fast an spend the day saying oops prayers
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Example of a Christian oops prayer
My god I am sorry for my sins with all my heart
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Example of an Islamic oops prayer
Oh Allah forgive me and my parents
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Hindu oops prayer
Why then I very n'a is my greatest sin
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Examples of mystical languages
Latin, sanscrit, hebrew, Arabic
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Gammatria is
Using Hebrew letters/numbers to calculate meaning
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8 intelligences
Verbal linguistic, logical mathematic, visual special, musical rhythmic, bodily kin esthetic, naturalist, interpersonal, interpersonal
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What is the lords prayer
A summary of the entire gospel message of Jesus
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The writer of mark begins the gospel by quoting which Hebrew prophet
Isaiah
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How does John the baptistery look in the beginning of mark
Clothed in camel hair
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What two signs occur after John baptists Jesus
The heavens tore apart and they heard the voice of god
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Mark summarizes Jesus' message in one verse
The time of fullfilment and the kingdom has come near, repent and beleive in the holy spirit
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Who are Jesus first two disciples and what is their occupation
Simon and Andrew. Fishermen
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What promise does Jesus make to Simon and Andrew
That he will make them fish for the people
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What problem awaits Jesus in the house of Simon?
Simons mother is ill and Jesus cures her
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Jesus tells the leper to
Show himself to the preist and offer his cleaning as a testimony to moses
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What was Levi's occupation
Tax collector
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What is the most serious internal sin?
Speaking against the holy spirit
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What does Jairo's ask of Jesus?
To save his daughter
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What were jrsus' words to the jairuss daughter and what did they mean?
Talitha cum. Which means little girl, get up
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Who appeared with Jesus when he was being transfigured?
Elijah and moses
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What did the voice say during Jesus's transfiguration?
This I my son the beloved; listen to him
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Jesus repeats a command many times throughout his journey to his disciples. What is it?
Keep awake
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What are te pastoral epistles?
1 Timothy, 2 Timothy and Titus were attributed to Paul, written by another, given instruction a guidance
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In Antioch Paul...
Helped build a religious community, first to be called Christian
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After Damascus Paul went to
Damascus, Jerusalem, tarsus, Antioch, Cyprus, Asia minor, Antioch, Jerusalem, Galatia, Macedonia, Greece, Corinth, Ephesus, Jerusalem, rome

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