REL 1103 Final Exam Review

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Before the beginning of the Protestant Reformation in the 16th century CE, Catholic church authorities were doing a good job in fulfilling believers' needs.

False

Catholic Christianity began to ban the saint veneration from the fourth century CE because many Christian began to "worship" saints as Jesus or God.

False

Christianity does not have a bounded list called "canon."

False

Evangelicalism is an official denomination of Protestant Christianity, like Presbyterianism, Southern Baptist, and Methodism.

False

In Catholic Eucharist, the bread and wine symbolize Jesus' suffering and death but are not considered to be transformed into his actual flesh and blood.

False

Islam is the world's largest religion as of year 2020.

False

Its founder is undoubtedly Jesus, who intentionally created a separate religion from Judaism.

False

Justification of faith is the doctrine that was officially doctrinized by the Catholic church in the 4th century CE.

False

Moses and his contemporaneous Israelites kept the covenant faithfully and could enter the Promised Land themselves.

False

Muhammad and his followers could settle down successfully in Mecca immediately after his proclamation of monotheism.

False

Muhammad is the divine savior of Muslims.

False

One of the teachings of Jesus include revolt against the Roman Empire using military force.

False

Principal subdivisions of the Hebrew Bible are: Torah, Gemara, Elohim.

False

Protestant Christianity claims that the bread and wine in the Eucharist actually transform into Jesus' flesh and blood once they are consecrated by pastors.

False

Protestant Christianity has an official institutional head that decides official positions of all Protestant denominations.

False

Sabbath happens from Sunday morning to Sunday midnight.

False

Shahadah is the Jewish prayer confessing the monotheistic faith in YHWH.

False

The Jewish holy day when God forgives Jews' sins is called Pesach (Passover).

False

The founder of Judaism is Moses, who received a covenant from God and wrote it down.

False

The holiest book in Islam, which contains the revelations Muhammad received from Allah, is called Hadith.

False

The name of Israel's God revealed to Moses is Elohim.

False

The official exemplar in Islam is Ibrahim (Abraham).

False

The pre-Islamic Arabia was already dominantly monotheistic with many Jews and Christians. Polytheists were few.

False

Two earliest Christian practices include Christmas celebration and baptism.

False

You can call Jewish Tanakh as the "Old Testament."

False

Muhammad thought that while Christians and Jews know partial truth about God, they also developed erroneous ideas: Jews over-stressing the Law, and Christians mistaking Jesus as God.

True

Muslims use a special lunar calendar, which begins its count from 622 CE, the year of Hijrah.

True

One of the Jewish ways of understanding suffering is that righteous people can suffer but human beings cannot understand the reason fully.

True

Shahadah refers to the Muslim confession reciting "There is no god but Allah, and Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah."

True

Synagogue is a meeting place for Jewish people's study of the scripture, prayer, and worship.

True

The early belief represented in this passage is that Jesus is an incarnation of God: "[Jesus]...who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God..."

True

The problem of human beings according to Islam is self-sufficiency and idolatry.

True

The term "muslim" refers to "the one who submits (to Allah)"

True

There is no central leader or institution in Judaism that makes theological decisions on doctrines, heresies, and canons.

True

This passage from the gospel ("Look at my hands and my feet...Touch me and see; for a ghost does not have flesh and bones as you see that I have.") indicates that the belief in Jesus' bodily resurrection was one of the earliest beliefs in the history of Christianity.

True

Two kinds of Jewish Talmud are Babylonian and Jerusalem Talmuds.

True

Babylonian Exile was the beginning of mass Jewish diaspora.

True

Christianity started becoming a distinctive religion from Judaism around the 1st century CE, after the destruction of the Second Temple (70 CE).

True

Christians and Muslims later claimed some of the Jewish traditions as their sacred tradition (ex. Abraham, stories in the Hebrew Bible

True

Christmas celebrates Jesus' birth Dec 25th, often together with Epiphany, a holy day (Jan 6th) that celebrates the incarnation of God on earth.

True

Constantine's conversion paved the road for Christianity becoming the official religion of the Roman Empire at the end of the 4th century CE.

True

In the Jewish tradition, debates over the Hebrew Bible is considered to be useful.

True

Islam daily prayer can be done privately or publicly.

True

Jews engaging in activities that protect nature and earth is one of the activities practicing Tikkun Olam.

True

Judaism is an ethnic religion, which has diverse beliefs and practices associated with the Jewish people.

True

Messianic expectation is one way of Jews dealing with sufferings and exiles.

True

Modern Christian trends include globalization, efforts for unity, working for social issues, and increasing drift between liberal - fundamental positions

True


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