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| How many books are in the Bible? How many in the Old Testament? |
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| 66 total, 39 in Old Testament |
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| What are the 3 categories of the Old Testament? |
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| Torah, Prophets and Writings |
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| 1st category of the Hebrew Bible. Torah is law or teachings. It is comprised of 5 books. |
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| What are the 5 books of the Torah |
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| Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy |
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| Where does the word Torah come from? |
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| Greek word Pentateuch meaning 5 books |
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| What is the book of Psalms |
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| Book in the writing category of the old testament. It is devotional poetry written for Jews to sing in the rebuilt temple of 536 BCE |
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| What makes the Christian Old Testament different from the Hebrew Bible? |
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| The Christians reordered it. They placed the Porhets last (was 2nd in Hebrew Bible) because they believed the Prophets were speaking of Jesus Christ |
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| Prophets are ____ not ______ |
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| Forthtelling not foretelling. They make news public, they do not predict the future |
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| How did the Old Testamnent come to be |
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| Oral stories, writing, redaction, canonizing, translation & transmission |
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| What are the 4 categories of the New Testament? |
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| Gospels, Letters, Acts (history) and Revelation |
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| Where Jews gathered when their temple was destroyed |
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| What is the purpose of the gospels |
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| to convert people to Christianity and instruct the converted |
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| Literature unveiling the kingdom of God |
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| How did the New Testament come into being? |
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| Oral stories, writing, Canonization |
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| When was the New Testament Canonized |
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| What were the 4 criteria for canonization of the New Testament |
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| 1) Authorship 2) Earliest Text 3) Harmony 4) Catholocity (how widely read) |
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| Why was divine inspiration not one of the criteria for canonization? |
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| Because they did not want to limit God |
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| What were the 3 reasons for canonization? |
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| 1) To create a standard 2) To determine which scripture was suitable for worship 3) Persecution |
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| What are the 3 worlds of the Bible? |
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| Literary, Historical and Contemporary |
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| What is Friedman's thesis |
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| That God disappears in the Bible |
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| When did Rabbinical Judaism start |
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| After the second Jewish temple was destroyed in 70 AD |
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| When was Biblical Judaism around? |
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| Up till 70 AD when the second temple was destroyed |
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| Someone who uses reason to explore scripture and does a literary analysis |
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| How does Rabbinical Judaism confirm that God is dead according to Friedman> |
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| The Torah is now in the hands of man and not God |
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| What are the two explanations Friedman gives for the disappearance of God? |
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| God is a personification of the force of nature or God is the parent and has stepped back from his children |
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| A Classical Theist. Said God is everywhere, but nowhere. God is always harmony and bliss. |
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| A classical Theist. Argued God is apathetic and immutable. Said God does not change, our perception of God changes. |
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| Gods existence stems from his own creation. Our being is contingent, derived from another source |
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| Who gave the trinitarian understanding of God? |
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| Who said Jesus is neither divine, not human, but a combination of silver and gold, but neither |
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| A collective profession of faith on the part of the church |
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| According to classical Theism, God has these four qualities |
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1) Unaffected by the world
2) Unconstrained, God is everywhere and simultaneously nowhere
3) Unchanging. God is outside of time and could not be blissful if he could suffer
4) Perfect - God would not be perfect if he could change |
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| Where do thinkers get the idea that God is changeless? |
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| Aristotle and Plato. The Greeks believed that the earth is at the center of the universe and that God is the primary mover of the 7 heavens and is located outside of them. |
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| Define Sacramentarian. Who were sacramentarians? |
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| Sacramentarians denied that God was really present in the Sacrament. They are everyone exccept Lutherans, Protestants and Catholics. |
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| Who was the first to suggest the divine part of Christ died? |
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| Hegel believes suffering and death are ____ to God, not ____ |
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| Hegel believes suffering and death are essential to God, not incidental. |
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| Name the four sectors of Christianity |
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1) Roman Catholic
2) Orthodox
3) Mainline Protestantism
4) Non-traditional |
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| What do non traditional Christians typically have>? |
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| Additional Authoritative books |
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| A process by which a person becomes holy |
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| What are Thomasius' relative attributes of God. Why are they relative? |
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| Relative attributes: Omnipotent, Omnipresence, Omniscience. They are relative because they arise in the world God created |
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| What are God's eternal attributes |
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1)Being in itself
2) Being for itself
3) Being in and for itself |
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| Pure potentiality or immediacy, conciousness |
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| Pour soi, God expressed himself through creation of the universe, objectifies ideas in Gods mind |
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| What are the two negations: |
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1) Becoming the son brings himself self-awareness
2)Negatiion of the negation is cruxifiction |
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| According to Hegel why does Jesus die? |
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| To disclose a new consciousness of living for others |
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| When was the old testament canonized |
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| Who compared Jesus' divinity to 2 boards glued together? |
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| The influence of Classical Theism on orthodox Christianity |
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| Did Tertulian believe the divine nature in Christ died? |
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| No. He believes only human nature dies. "Conjoined but not to be confounded" Interlocking gears |
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| What is the literary world of the bible? |
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| The ways in which the language of the Bible creates unique worlds of meaning |
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| What is the contempoary world of the Bible |
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| The impact of the Bible on people and situations today |
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| What is the historical world of the Bible |
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| The history of the writing of the Bible, the history of the period in which the Bible was written and the history of the translation and interpretation of the Bible |
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| What is the textual history of the Bible? |
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| The copying of the Bible in it's original languages - Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek |
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| ____ said, "I shall hide my face from them. I shall see what their end will be" to_____ |
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