BIBL 365 Quiz 1

BIBL 365 Quiz 1

1. Jesus was declared to be both the Son of God and the Son of David.
2. The apostle Paul received his apostleship from the apostles, Peter and John.
3. Paul described as his debt to the Romans as the offering he was able to collect and wanted to bring to them when he visited them.
4. Paul believed that people who are not familiar with God’s word and commandments will be judged by their conscience.
5. An inner circumcision is a surgical procedure done for males of Jewish descent.
6. The righteousness of God apart from the Law refers to the religious laws that people live by.
7. Abraham was justified before God when he was circumcised.
8. In Pauline theology death is associated with condemnation, but God’s grace in Christ is associated with receiving God’s peace and justification.
9. The blessing that comes from being baptized into Christ is that of becoming a member of a new religion.
10. According to Romans 7, believers in Christ now are able to live by the Law of Moses.
11. The nation of Israel was rejected by God and the Gentiles will forever replace them.
12. In Romans 1:11-15, the reasons Paul gave the church in Romans for wanting to see them was to ____. (select at least two of the reasons that are true):
13. What is the gift that Paul is referring to that comes from God and results in salvation?
14. Paul writes that sin came into the world and spread to all of mankind through:
15. In writing to the Romans, Paul writes that ”Likewise the _____ helps us in our ______ ; for we do not know how to pray as we ought… Select the two correct
16. words missing from the biblical text:
17. The gospel came to Europe for the first time when Paul preached to the Thessalonian people.
18. In I Thessalonians, the doctrine of the Second Coming of Christ includes the belief in the resurrection of all the dead in Christ.
19. When Paul prayed for the Thessalonians he remembered their
20. What did Paul ask the Thessalonian brothers and sisters to aspire to:
    “To live _______ to _____ your own affairs, and to _____ with your own hands.”
21. Crispus and Gaius were Paul’s missionary associates in his mission work in Corinth.
22. For Jews, the crucifixion of Christ was foolishness to the Jewish people and a stumbling block for the Greeks
23. In I Corinthians, Paul refers to varied aspects of the grace of God, identify which is not an aspect of God’s grace:
24. Paul frowned upon brethren who went to court to place lawsuits against other believers because
25. Paul refers to his advancing in his former religion of Judaism by converting many pagans.
26. When Paul became a follower of Christ his newfound faith was affirmed by fellowshipping with the main apostles in Jerusalem.
27. When God spoke to Paul about his mission, the Lord commissioned him to take the gospel to the uncircumcised, which is referring to those people who were non-Jews.
28. In writing to the Galatians, Paul wrote about being “crucified with Christ,” which means that a believer during the early church period would experience a martyr’s death.
29. In Galatians 3:9-14, Paul wrote of those being under “the curse of the Law,” and he was referring to people who were blasphemers who would be judged by God.
30. In Galatians 4:1-7, Paul compared the Mosaic Law as a schoolmaster or guardians who cared for child heirs until they were able to grow to adulthood. This example was to illustrate the slave like status of someone under the Law until Christ came to make them God’s children.
31. In Paul’s statement that “there is no longer any Jew or Gentile, there is no longer slave or free, there is neither male or female, for all of you are one in Christ Jesus,” Paul was supporting the view that sexual identity is a personal choice and God makes no distinctions between males, females and/or homosexuals.
32. Another view of the provenance of the letter to the Ephesians was that it went out from Paul as an encyclical to many different churches.
33. Paul’s letter to the Ephesians was written from prison.
34. A key purpose for Paul’s writing to the Ephesians was to rekindle their love for the Lord and for one another.
35. Select three of the six spiritual blessings that Paul included in his doxology leading to his prayer for the Ephesians in chapter 1:
36. With what verb tense did Paul state how God blessed the Ephesians (and hence, all believers)
37. Which is a doxological refrain expressed by Paul in his letter to the Ephesians?
38. In one of Paul’s prayers written from prison concerning believers coming to a greater intimacy with God, in which epistle did he write the following: “…the Father of glory may give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation as you come to know him.”
39. Match the following with its appropriate counterpart: Mt Zion Mt. Sinai Law from Sinai Hagar Ishmael Isaac Sarah