Test 6: Acts, Epistles, Rev

When the Holy Spirit came upon the desciples at Pentecost

the desciples spoke in many different languages they had not studied

When Ananias and Sapphira donated proceeds from the sale of their land to the apostles

peter reproved them for lying to the Holy Spirit

Saul, who later became Paul, became an apostle because

he was confronted by God on his way to kill Christians

Just before Paul was stoned and left for dead at Lystra,

the crowd worshipped him and Barnabus as Hermes and Zeus

After a violent earthquake ripped open the Philippian prison into which Paul and Silas had been thrown

Paul demanded an apology from the magistrates before he would leave

Paul was arrested in the temple at Jerusalem

for teaching against Jews, Jewish Law, and the temple

After Paul appealed to Caesar

the king Agrippa said that he could have been set free if he had not appealed

Peter's essential discovery at the home of Cornelius, Acts 10, was that

God allows everyone to come to Him, showing no favoritism

The Jewish-Gentile controversy of Acts 15 was resolved by

the Gentiles agreeing to abstain from a few practices that were most offensive to the jews

Paul spoke of the alter to the unknown god in Athens, Acts 17, as

an opening to the Gospel as he could tell them of this unknown God

When Paul and Barnabas were making plans to revisit Christians in all the towns where they had preached before

Barnabas wanted to take Mark with them, but Paul refused

Paul most likely had

four missionary journeys

When Peter saw a sheet being let down from heaven in a vision, he learned that

things previously considered "unclean," such as ceratain foods and Gentiles were now considered "clean

Paul became a Christian

When Jesus appeared to him in a blinding flash of light

Paul tells the Corinthians that divisions in the church

are a problem that should be fixed

Paul tells the Corinthians that miraculous spiritual gifts such as healing, prophacy, speaking in tongues

are given by the same spirit and are for building up the one church

In 1 cor 13, love is presented as

the greatest spiritual gift which is an elemant of heaven which we can share today

The ressurection of Jesus in 1 cor 15 is

an actual raising of the very body which was crucified

2 corinthians has this emotional aspect on the part of Paul

frustration by Paul because of the continued misunderstanding of his ministry by the Corinthians

Paul tells the Corinthians that God reconciled

the world to himself in Christ

The main lesson that Paul learned from what he called "a thorn in my flesh" was that

when he was weak, then he was strong

Paul tells the Romans that

all the other answers are correct

Romans 4 uses as the great example of justification by faith

God justifies us as those who have not worked but rather only approach him by faith, trusting upon his generosity over the guilty

Paul tells the Romans that baptism

joins us to Jesus so we die and come to life again with him

With reference to the ceremonial laws governing which foods to eat and which days to honor as more sacred than others, Paul tells the Romans that

all food is clean and all days sacred and they should not fight with others concerning these matters

The captivity Letters, generally thought to be witten by Paul from Rome, are

Ephesians, Colossians, Phlippians, and Philemon

1-2 Timothy and Titus are called "the pastoral letters" because

they are from Paul to these men who are the leaders and sheparding pastors of their congregations

The "Pauline Epistles" are so called because

they were all written by the historical Paul

Paul tells the Colossians should not let anyone judge them

when they break the ceremonial laws of the Old Testament governing food and sacred days

Eph 1:3-14 is the Trinitarian section of the letter because

the work of the father sending the son, the redemption of the son, and the guarantee of the spirit are shown

Paul teaches the Ephesians that Jews and Gentiles

Are fellow citizens with God's people and members of God's household

Paul tells the Galatians that whoever preaches a gospel other than what Paul preached

should be eternally condemned

In Galatians, Paul is amazed that the Galatians are so quickly

leaving the Gospel for a justification by their own deeds

Paul's controversy with the Galatians was concerning

the Judaizers who claimed authority because of their association with the Jerusalem Disciples

Paul tells the Galatians that they should not let themselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery

because Christ had set them free from the ceremonial law of Moses

Paul teaches the Philippians that Jesus

humbled himself even though he was in the form of God

Phil 2:6-11 describes the humiliation and exaltation of Christ by showing that

though he was God, he did not grasp after a constant demonstration of his equality with God

Paul tells the Thessalonians that those who have fallen asleep

will rise from the dead when Christ returns

According to 1 Thess 4:13-18, those who are dead, having died in faith in Chirst, are now

with Chirst in their spirits while their bodies wait for the ressurection

Paul teaches the Thessalonians that the man of lawlessness

will set himself up in God's temple

Election, as defined in Ephesians, is

God's gracious choice of those who are saved in Christ through faith

The Colossian heresy which prompted the writing of the book of Colossians included this thought or practice

a slavish following of rituals which, Paul argues, had been eclipsed by Christ

Of whom do the following words from the Davidic covenant speak, according to the Book of Hebrews: "You are my son; today I have become your Father"?

Jesus

The book of Hebrews, in discussing the role of Jesus, shows that he is

superior to angels, sacrifices, and priests due to his single sacrifice for all, his deity, and his role as creator

According to the Book of Hebrews, faith

is being certain of what we do not see

Heb 11 has the roll call of faith and includes prominently these individuals

Moses, Abraham, Noah, and the people of the Exodus

James complaint against his readers in chapter 2 was that

they confessed God to exist but did nothing while even the demons shuddered

According to James, man cannot tame

the tongue

2 Pet 1:16-21 presents the Bible to be

the product of God's spirit working in and through men

Paul's request of Philemon was that Philemon

recieve Onesimus back as a brother

Paul tells Timothy that God wants _______ to be saved and to come to a knowledge of truth

all people

Paul tells Timothy that all scripture

is breathed by God, or inspired

Paul tells Titus that he should teach older men (1), older women (2), young men (3), and slaves (4)

1) to be temperate, 2) to be reverent, 3) to be self-controlled, 4) to be obedient

The historical record of the apostolic authorship or approval of the following books is relatively weak:

Hebrews, James, 2 Peter, 2-3 John, Jude, Revelation

James writes his book with the purpose of

urging Christians to live fairly with one another and to show their faith by their actions of love and purity of life

According to the book of John, the main reason we should love each other is that

God is love, and love comes from God

John warns against false teachers in general and says that anyone who welcomes them shares in their work in

2 John

Johnn warns against Diotrephes as a destructive force in the church and prasies Demetrius as a good teacher in

3 John

The godless man who slipped in among the believers to exchange God's grace for immorality are compared by Jude to

all of the other answers are correct

Peter says that the prophets who predicted the Messiah

searched carefully to find the time and circumstances of the Messiah's coming

Peter says that believers who fall away from the faith

would have been better off never to have known the way of righteousness

In Rev 7:1-17 and 21:1-4, heaven is presented as

a reversal of all pain, sorrow, and death with the inclusion of people from every nation, tribe, and language

The river of life that flows from the throne of God and of the Lamb

waters the tree of life that brings healing to the nations

John in 1 John writes against the Gnostics who found the incarnation of Jesus to be

an impossibility since they held that human flesh is evil and incapable of being united with the divine good

Rev 20:1-6 presents the Millennium, in a Luthern understanding, as

the entire time from Christ's ressurection until his second coming

The Gnosticism that John combatted in his epistles taught that

the spiritual world is the realm of light and good, and the goal of those in the physical world must be to escape back to the spiritual

Because many false prophets have gone out into the world, John says

we should test the spirits to see whether they are from God

The Greek word "apocalypse" means

uncovering, revealing

According to the historicist position, the book of Revelation speaks of events

from the first century AD to the end of the world

According to postmillennialism

the Millennium will occur before Christ's second coming