Reli 1001 Test 1

Christians understand the three "Persons" of the Trinity as

Comprising a single divine "nature" or "essence" and distinct but inseparable.

Muslims believe all of the contents of the Qur'ān (their scriptures) were revealed to Muhammad through the angel Gabriel.

True

In Judaism the name of the Hebrew Scriptures is

the Tanakh

The scriptures and other traditional religious texts of the Abrahamic religions use exclusively masculine imagery and names for God and consider deity to be somehow male in nature.

False, Because sex is a characteristic of created, bodily existence, the Abrahamic faiths hold that technically God is neither male nor female and/or encompasses both the male and female. Also, feminine imagery is used to describe God in several scriptural texts. For example, divinity is often personified as "wisdom" which is a female noun and name in both Hebrew and Greek ("Sophia"). Yahweh is also described in metaphor as a protective mother eagle and bear in the the prophets and Deuteronomy.

The 114 suras (or chapters) of the Qur'ān are placed in the chronological order in which they were purported to be revealed to Muhammad.

False, The chronologically first sura is generally agreed to be number 96, "The Clot."

The second "Pillar of Islam" acknowledges the oneness of God and Muhammad as God's messenger or prophet.

False, his is the first pillar of Islam, known as "shahada."

The Books of the Hebrew Bible and those of the Christian Old Testament fall in the same order.

False. The Christan Old Testament follows the order of the Septuagint, an ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew scriptures. By placing the prophets of the Jewish "Nevi'im" at the end, Christians tie the Messianic prophecies found in these texts to the Gospels, which follow immediately after in the New Testament.

Christians worship the God they call

Father, Son, Holy Spirit, Trinity. In Christianity the Trinity and all three "Persons" of the Trinity are understood to be fully God--one God in three distinct but inseparable Persons, who bear the same nature or essence, while relating to one another in distinct ways. Technically speaking, therefore, by having the same nature but distinct ways of relating, it could be said that the Persons of the Trinity are the relations.

The contents of the Christian New Testament were created

Between the mid 1st and mid 2nd centuries CE, in response to what some jewish people understood to be a new self-revelation of God through a man known as Jesus of Nazareth, because early christian believers thought the crucified and resurrected Jesus would return to earth, and his return was taking longer than expected, and in order to give christians guidance and comfort during times of confusion and persecution.

One of the most ancient biblical passages in the hebrew scriptures is

Exodus 15. Based on Hebrew spelling and grammar, this hymn to Yahweh (the Lord) as a mighty warrior is very likely the most ancient text recorded in the Bible.

n the year 610 Muhammad is said to have received the first revelation of the Quranic text in a cave near Mecca on Mt. _______

Hira

All of the following are Hebrew/Jewish names for God except

Jehovah, Believe it or not, the name "Jehovah" is not a word at all, but a 13th century German transliteration mistake. Because Jews do not pronounce the name "Yahweh," when Jewish scribes developed a vowel system for Hebrew, they superimposed the vowels for "Adonai" over the consonants Y-H-W-H. If you didn't know what was going on, you might be tempted to pronounce the word "Yehovah." And the letter that makes the "Y" sound in German is "J," hence the common mistake of calling the God of the Old Testament "Jehovah."

Muslims typically believe all of the following about Christian monotheism except

Jesus died on a cross. While most historians now acknowledge evidence indipendent of biblical sources that Jesus indeed died by Roman crucifixion on a cross, the Quran holds that God preserved his life rather than raising him from the dead

The Christian doctrine of the Trinity developed in light of the perception that Jesus must somehow be incorporated into the identity of the God of the Jews.

True, The Christian doctrine of the Trinity developed from the religious understanding that Jesus was Yahweh's self-revelation--the incarnation of the God of the Jews. The Christians' threefold experience of salvation by and worship of God (the Father), through the incarnate Son or Word (Logos), in the abiding presence of the Holy Spirit can be seen in several New Testament passages and became articulated more fully in later "rules of faith" and creeds.

The 10 commandments begin with an imperative forbidding Jews and Christians from worshipping any other God but Yahweh and from crafting images of this or any other deity.

True, The first set of imparatives in the 10 Commandments, or "decalogue" (literally, "ten words"), is often called the "first table of the Law." These commandments deal with who and how to worship. This set of commandments ends with the command to keep the Sabbath. The second set of commands, or the "second table of the Law," has to do with treating others justly, or loving your neighbor as yourself.

The God called "Adonai" by Jews, the "Trinity" by Christians, and "Allāh" by Muslims is one and the same God of Abraham.

True, Though they understand God's essence or nature in different ways, Jews, Chritians, and Muslims all trace their faith to the patriarch Abraham and direct their worship to the One God they believe communicated and forged a covenant relationship with him.

For Jews, Christians, and Muslims today, monotheism means believing in a single, infinite, personal deity, whose nature precludes the existence of other gods.

True. Although the Tanakh records that ancient Israelites acknowledged the existence of deities other than the Lord (YHWH or Yahweh; spoken as "Adonai") and even worshiped them at times, several intellectual and cultural developments, like the influence of Hellenistic (Greek) culture, paved the way for the strict monotheism of of the Abrahamic faiths, as well as the Trinitarian monotheism of Christianity.

The Hebrew Bible is made up of three sections called the Torah, Nevi'im, and the Ketuvium.

True. The Torah is the first five books of the Tanakh, also known as the "Pentateuch." Traditionally, it is also called "the Law" or the "Books of Moses." The term itself means roughly, "instruction." The "Nevi'im" stands for the "prophets," and the "Ketuvim" means the "writings."

All of the contents of the Hebrew Scriptures are contained in what the Christians call the "Old Testament"

True. The ordering and grouping of many texts is different, but the contents are exactly the same. A notable exception to this, however, is that the Catholic and Orthodox Old Testament contain seven additional "deutero-canonical" texts originally written in Greek, which were contained in the Septuigint but not in the Tanakh or Protestant Old Testament. For more on this, see the readings in this module.