Paul's Later Epistles Final
After warning a divisive person twice, Paul tells Titus to break off contact & fellowship with him/her
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All the names (except for Titus & Paul) mentioned in Titus are not found anywhere else in any Paul's other writings
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Ellis has serious doubts about whether Paul was ever able to visit Spain
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In Titus, Paul encourages civil disobedience to the authorities of Crete to help change the injustices of the government there.
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Most evangelicals have concluded that Paul wrote the prison epistles during an Ephesian imprisonment and that Paul wrote the pastoral epistles while he was under house arrest in Rome during the two year period mentioned at the end of Acts 28.
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Paul encourages slaves to work for their freedom, even to escape if possible in Titus.
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Paul indicates that one thing ancient Christians did when they prayed was to stick their leg out to the side.
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Paul is in Rome for his 2nd imprisonment as he write Titus
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The pastoral letters are 1 Timothy & 2 Timothy, & Philemon.
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The pastoral letters hardly interact at all with early Christian traditions.
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Titus has just left Rome for Dalmatia as Paul write Titus
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Titus implies that the churches of Crete are led both by a single individual known as a bishop and a council of elders that balance out the power in a church
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Titus is someone unique among Paul's writings in outright calling Jesus God
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Titus is somewhat unique among Paul's writings in encouraging us to work to earn our salvation.
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While 1 Timothy does not mention explicitly that Paul is its author, the church has always believed that he was.
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While scholars debate other issues, there is a general agreement that the structure of church organization mentioned in the pastorals fit in with the 60's AD and what churches looked like at the end of Paul's life.
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1 Timothy SAYS that only the most gifted converts to Christianity can become overseers immediately, and even then only after a one-year trial period.
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Another strong similarity between 1 Timothy and Paul's earlier writings is the way he thinks of himself as having been the worst sinner of all before he became a Christian.
False.
In keeping with the fact that Paul is in prison as he writes, he urges Timothy to have his congregations pray for the rulers of Rome so that he will be released from prison.
False.
Like 1 Timothy, 2 Timothy tells of the time when the elders laid hands on Timothy so that he could receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
False.
One strong similarity between 1 Timothy and Paul's earlier writings is the way he talks about himself as a teacher and his teaching as doctrine.
False.
Paul SAYS that it doesn't matter what the world thinks of you - they are bound to think ill of you simply because you are a Christian.
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Paul SAYS that since polygamy is such a problem at Ephesus, overseers and deacons should be monogamous (have one wife)
False.
Paul acknowledges that God is waiting to send Christ back until the whole world has heard the gospel.
False.
Paul encourages the masters of slaves who are also Christians to treat them better because they are brothers.
False.
Paul makes it very clear that there should be a single "overseer" or a "senior pastor" over each congregation.
False.
Paul makes space for Jesus to be God when he says, "there is one God the Father, immortal, invisible, and one God the mediator between God and men, the man Jesus Christ".
False.
Paul refers to Timothy as a deacon in 1 Timothy
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The false teachers 1 Timothy addresses argue for celibacy.
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The false teaching1 Timothy addresses has to do with certain pagan (non-jewish/non-christian) idea that have been mixed together with Christianity.
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While Paul does not prohibit drinking for Christians in general, he urges a higher standard for overseers and deacons, "they are to abstain from wine".
False.
1 Timothy seems to think of the Jewish Law primarliy in terms of the 10 commandments.
True
According to Ellis, only heretics questioned the Pauline authorship of the pastorals before the 19th century
True
As Paul calls Timothy in both 1 & 2 Timothy, he calls Titus his "son" in Titus
True
As in his earlier writings, Paul affirms that meat offered to idols is intrinsically defiling & should never be eaten at all costs
True
As in the case of 1 Timothy, money seems to be a motivation for such traveling false teaching
True
Both Paul & Titus are explicitly mentioned as the author and recipient of this book.
True
Ellis and others suggest Luke might have served as Paul's secretary in the writing of the pastoral letters
True
Ellis believes that most of the arguments against Pauline authorship of the pastorals fall away when one considers the role secretaries could play in ancient authorship
True
Ellis conjectures that Paul might have written 1 Timothy & Titus from Corinth & 2 Timothy from Rome
True
H. J. Holtzmann believed that the pastoral letters differed significantly enough in their theology from Paul's earlier writings to suggest that Paul was not their author.
True
In the setting of the letter, Timothy seems to be at Ephesus when Paul sends this letter to him.
True
Like 1 Timothy, the false teachers of Titus would seem to be ethnic Jew or Jewish proselytes who require circumcision for salvation.
True
Paul encourages Titus to lead Christians to do what is good.
True
Paul indicates that an elder can only have one wife in the course of his life. If she dies, he must not remarry.
True
Paul may allude to the two-fold conversion process in Titus involving 1) baptism & 2) receiving the Holy Spirit.
True
Paul mentions in Titus that Christ commanded him to preach
True
Paul mentions in Titus that he plans to winter at a location that Acts never tells us he even visited.
True
Paul refers to true teaching as a "deposit" entrusted to Timothy to guard among those for whom he cares.
True
The evidence we have from late second and early third century Christianity seems to indicate that Christian leaders did not accept pseudonymous writings as canonical.
True
The older women of Titus are to help train the younger men in a community
True
The pastoral letters have over 10 instances when Paul says, "faithful is the word"
True
The way these false teachers seem to operate is they find patronage in someone's home & then use that as a base from which to influence Christian community
True
These false teachers appear to be from Crete
True
Those who argue against the Pauline authorship of the pastorals often argue that the kinds of heresies addressed in the pastorals are Gnostic & relate to a period several decades after Paul's death rather than to heresies that were around at the time of Paul.
True
Titus indicates that Paul had visited Crete at some point during his ministry, although Acts does not mention a visit of this sort.
True
Titus would seem to be on the island of Crete as Paul writes Titus
True
1 Timothy (& the other Pastoral Epistles) are, however, unique among Paul's writings in the way they use the phrase, "This is a trustworthy saying..."
True.
1 Timothy makes distinctions between widows who are "truly" widows and widows who are not. The main distinction seems to be between those who really need the support of the church and those who have family to take care of them.
True.
1 Timothy mentions several times that the love of money is a bad thing. It lies at the root of many evils.
True.
1 Timothy seems to presume that a good overseer or deacon will have children who will behave properly and obey him with proper respect.
True.
1 Timothy was written to someone name Timothy.
True.
2 Timothy gives us the names of Timothy's mother and grandmother.
True.
2 Timothy was apparently written by Paul while when he was imprisoned in Rome, soon before his death at the hands of Nero.
True.
According to Paul, God wants everyone to be saved. This comment follows Paul's encouragement to pray for kings and those in authority, implying that God even wants them to be saved.
True.
Apparently some are using their false teaching in some way as a way of gaining money.
True.
During Paul's first defense before Nero, almost everyone deserted him.
True.
Elders who have done wrong are to be rebuked publicly, as long as there are two or three witnesses.
True.
Evidently, when the widows are "enrolled" as widows, they took a vow never to remarry. These are the true widows.
True.
In 2 Timothy, Paul considers his teaching as a prototype of true teaching, a "deposit" of proper believe he is leaving for Timothy to guard.
True.
One of the main concerns of 1 Timothy seems to be false teaching.
True.
Paul also notes that no one has ever seen God (the Father)
True.
Paul also thinks younger widows are prone to become gossipers & busybodies, possibly because they do not have the family responsibilities to keep them busy working.
True.
Paul argues that a woman cannot have authority over a man because Adam was created first, then Eve.
True.
Paul argues that no food is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving.
True.
Paul calls God (the Father) "King of Kings and Lord of lords" in 1 Timothy
True.
Paul discourages women from wearing peals, gold, and expensive clothing.
True.
Paul does not consider younger widows to be true widows because he thinks they will want to remarry because of their sensual desires.
True.
Paul encourages female family members to take care of the widows who will likely remarry
True.
Paul indicates in 1 Timothy that the bottom line of his command against controversies over false ideas is for there to be love among God's people, not strife.
True.
Paul indicates that the foundation of the truth is the church.
True.
Paul mentions 2 individuals whose faith had "shipwrecked" and whom he had delivered over to satan.
True.
Paul presumes that all overseers and deacons will be male.
True.
Paul reassure Timothy that he is not lying when he claims to be an apostle.
True.
Paul says that Jesus gave himself as a ransom - a pay-off to obtain someone's freedom.
True.
Paul seems to imply that a woman in general exists in a state of transgression in some way until she bears children.
True.
Paul's earlier writings think of the Jewish Law primarily in terms of "boundary issues" that separated Jew & Gentile ethinically
True.
Some of the things Timothy did in the church was read scripture, preach, and teach.
True.
The Pastoral Epistles are unique among Paul's writings in the way he refers to himself as a teacher and his teaching as doctrine.
True.
The elders to whom Paul refers in the latter part of the letter are probably the same individuals as the overseers mentioned earlier in the letter.
True.
The false teachers 1 Timothy forbid the eating of certain foods - perhaps they are urging people to keep the Jewish food laws.
True.
The letter of 1 Timothy talks about false teaching both in the present & future tenses.
True.
The love of money is the root of all kinds of evil.
True.
Timothy underwent some sort of ceremony in which the elders of the church laid hands on him. They did this because of a prophecy about him.
True.
We should think of Timothy as a young man as this letter is written.
True.
The vocabulary and style of each pastoral letter is similar to the others.
true
The vocabulary and style of the pastoral letters differs significantly from Paul's earlier letters
true
Titus shares with the other pastoral epistles a concern for sound teaching
true
Paul says that because of the specific problems at Ephesus, the women in that church should stop trying to teach when they do not know what they are talking about. Those particular women need to be quiet and listen to the men in authority at the church.
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Paul wrote 1 Timothy at least in part so that Timothy would know how people ought to conduct themselves in God's household.
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