Biblical Introduction Final

Psalm ____ exemplifies the reverences God's people help for God's Word.

119

Which New Testament book refers to Paul's letters as Scripture?

2 Peter

Irenaus, the bishop of Lyons in the late second-century had a New Testament with how many books?

22

Scripture provides the rules for ______________.

A moral universe

___________ inerrancy affirms the Bible is accurate and true in all matters and that the writers intend to give a considerable amount of exact data in such matters.

Absolute

The New Testament clearly pictures the divine and authoritative character of the _______ word.

Apostolic

The first list of canonical books that contains the 27 books currently accepted appears in Bishop _________'s festal letter in A.D. 367.

Athanasius

Tropological interpretation

Attempts to discover the moral sense behind the literal meaning

Literal interpretation

Attempts to understan Scripture in its plain and ordinary sense

What do we mean by the term canon?

Authoritative list of Scriptures

"The ultimate concern in a discussion of the Bible is its ________".

Authority

The first church council to list all 27 books of the New Testament was the council of ___________ in A.D. 397.

Carthage

What word does Dockery use as an example when discussing taking words literally and figuratively?

Cool

Which of the following is not one of the distinguishing marks for a scriptural book in the biblical canon?

Discipleship capabilities

Scripture cannot be understood correctly unless we take into consideration that it has a _____-sided authorship.

Dual

By the fourth century ___________, the church historian, delineated several categories of books: (1) accepted, (2) disputed, (3) rejected, and (4) heretical.

Eusebius

According to sola scriptura, all extra-biblical resources should be eliminated from the Church.

False

An approach to the subject of biblical authority must begin with God Himself, for in God some authority is located all of the time.

False

General revelation is adequate for salvation.

False

Most, but not all of the biblical books are authored by or have a connection to an apostle.

False

Scripture is partly the Word of God and partly the words of humans.

False

The Bible pictures Jesus' authority in terms of thinking and walking for God the Father.

False

The Old Testament canon was not established until after the birth of Jesus.

False

The church determined or defined the books in the church's canon.

False

Through self-reflection, based on natural revelation, a person can know their standing before God.

False

Scripture is unnecessary to have a relationship with God.

Flase

What books are included in the Law or Pentateuch?

Genesis through Deuteronomy

What is the sufficiency of Scripture grounded in?

God himself

What is Revelation?

God's manifestation of Himself to humankind in such a way that men and women can know and have fellowship with Him.

What is personal revelation?

God's revelation viewed primarily as a personal experience or encounter with God in Christ.

What is general revelation?

God's self-disclosure in a general way to all people at all times in all places.

What is particular revelation?

God's self-manifestation in a particular way to particular people at particular times and places.

What is propositional revelation?

God's self-manifestation understood as information about God, including the divine interpretation of revelatory events.

The New Testament was written in ____________, though Jesus and His disciples apparently spoke Aramaic.

Greek

The Old Testament was written in ____________, though a few chapters were written in a similar language Aramaic.

Hebrew

Questions regarding the canon can be divided into what two broad categories?

Historical and theology

________ is the view that the Bible is incapable of error and cannot deceive or mislead.

Infallibity

______________ considered apostolicity the fundamental test of canonicity authenticity.

Irenaeus

Who is the Jewish historian who offered a list of 22 Old Testament books in the first century?

Josephus

Scripture is necessary to have ______________.

Knowledge of God

___________ inerrancy assumes that God actually dictates the Bible to writers.

Naive

What kind of revelation is at work through creation?

Natural revelation

How does nuda scriptura differ from sola scriptura?

Nuda scriptura precludes all authorities outside of Scripture in the church

What happens if we allow the Scriptures to be interpreted by our experience?

Our experience will become the higher authority

Which of these are challenges to the sufficiency of Scripture? Select all that apply.

Papal magisterium and Tradition

According to the Reformers, what is magisterial in authority?

Scripture

God chose to reveal himself and his design for humanity's relationship with him through ______________.

Scripture

Christological interpretation

Seeks to see Jesus Christ as central to all interpreation of the Old Testament

Anagogical interpretation

Seeks to unfold the spiritual meaning of a passage as it relates to the future

Typological interpretation

Sees persons events, or things in Old Testament that foreshadow persons, events and things in New Testament

__________ revelation is primarily redemptive.

Special

Identify each attribute of Scripture. Select all that apply.

Sufficiency, clarity, authority, necessity

How do English-speaking Christians refer to their holy book?

The Bible, Scripture, and The Word of God (all of the above)

Allegorical interpretation

The text intends to say something other than its leteral word

According to sola scriptura, traditions have the same authority as Scripture.

True

All Christians recognize that God has revealed Himself to His creatures by acting and speaking in history.

True

Apocalyptic is a type of prophetic literature that discloses the future. Its primary focus is overthrowing the present age and establishing God's rule.

True

Canon (From the Greek kanon) means a standard by which something is measured.

True

Dockery defines authority by saying, "Authority is the right or power to command obedience or belief."

True

God can communicate with humans who have been created in His image. Likewise, humans can communicate with other humans across cultures and time.

True

God is his own authority.

True

Human beings created in the image of God can have memories of the past, considerations of the present, and expectations of the future.

True

Humankind can know that God is love through natural revelation.

True

In spite of the diversity of authors, languages, genres, and composition spanning almost 1,500 years, the Bible has a remarkable unity.

True

Inerrancy is the corollary and result of our affirmation about a full view of inspiration.

True

Inspiration is the superintending influence the Holy Spirit exerted on the biblical writers, enabling them to communicate in the sacred writings the revelation of God.

True

It is the confirming work of the Holy Spirit in the lives of believers that enables them to see the Bible as the written Word of God.

True

Knowledge of God becomes a possibility for humans at God's initiative by grace through faith.

True

Most of the Old Testament canon, especially the Law an the Prophets, was established long before Christ.

True

Prophecy is the speaking, proclaiming, or announcing by prophets under the influence of divine inspiration.

True

Salvific is a term describing things pertaining to the salvation of men and women from the power and effects of sin.

True

Scripture is a product of the Spirit's inspiration.

True

Scripture is completely the Word of God and the very words of humans.

True

Sola scriptura affirms the necessity of Scripture.

True

The Dead Sea Scrolls indicate that the Qumran covenant community has commentaries on most Old Testament books.

True

The English word Bible is derived from the Greek word biblion or biblia, which means scroll(s) or book(s).

True

The New Testament contains 27 books

True

The Old Testament contains 38 books.

True

The Reformers believed that if God is the author of the Bible, then its books would share God's own qualities.

True

The issue of biblical inerrancy is best understood as a claim to the Bible's truthfulness.

True

The purpose of biblical interpretation is to bring about Christlikeness in our lives.

True

The whole counsel of God concerning all things necessary for His own glory, man's salvation, faith and life, is either expressly set down in Scripture, or by good and necessary consequence may be deduced from Scripture.

True

The writers are certainly time-related but not necessarily time-bound.

True

Through special revelation an exhaustive understanding of God is made available.

True

Thus, we refer to Scripture as canonical, meaning that it serves as rule, a measure, or standard for Gods people.

True

Without the Bible we would have an incomplete understanding of God's nature.

True

Textual criticism is the science of determining the _________ biblical reading by comparing one historical text with other historical texts.

Truest

What is not an example given that illustrates how some biblical teachings are universal and not culturally specific?

What church we should join

What is the first question we should ask in interpreting the Bible?

What did the Scriptures mean to those to whom it was first given?

Historical questions about the canon ask _________.

When and how?

What does the sufficiency of Scripture teach us? Select all that apply.

Who God is and What God requires of people

Which is not included in the 3-fold dividsion of the OT canon mentioned by Philo and Jesus?

Writings

In Psalm 119 how does God's Word function?

as guide for godly living, as strength for weary, as instruction, as understanding, all of the above

___________ inerrancy affirms that the Bible is completely true in all that the Bible affirms, to the degree of precision intended by the writer.

balanced

____________ is a term referring to the 66 books of the Old Testament and New Testament that have been recognized and accepted by the church as authoritative and inspired by God.

canonical

__________ view of truth is a theory maintaining that truth consists in some form of correspondence between one's belief and actual conditions in the world.

correspondence

___________ inerrancy contends that the Bible inerrantly accomplishes its purposes.

functional

___________ inerrancy maintains that the Bible is inerrant in matters of salvation and ethics or faith and practice.

limited