theology WCOTB section 1 sg

Targumim are the paraphrases of the Hebrew Bible into what language?

Aramaic

The Nicene Creed was primarily formulated in response to the teachings of

Arius

Who wrote about the challenges of interpreting Genesis before Charles Darwin?

Augustine

Monotheism means

Belief in only one God

Which emperor was a positive catalyst for the Christian church to establish a canon?

Constantine

The creation narrative contains

Culturally expressed understandings of God's creation

God is almighty, this means that God can

Do anything consistent with his character

Only God the Father is involved in creation?

False

God is called Father in the Old Testament because

God created and called Israel to be his people

Pantheism is the belief that

God is everything

Panentheism is the belief that

God is in everything

The most helpful feature of the Apostles' Creed is

Its concise but poignant formulation

Docetism is the belief that

Jesus did not have a physical body

Gnosticism is the belief that

Jesus redeems humanity from a corrupted physical body

Ebionites profess the belief that

Jesus was "adopted" as God's son at his baptism

The New Testament creeds contained the twin focus on

Jesus' death and resurrection

The "traditions" passed on by the apostles were primarily?

Jesus' teachings and the Old Testament interpreted in light of Jesus

Marcion only used one of the gospels (which one?)

Luke

Ecumenical, with regard to the early creeds of Christianity means

Most Christians believe the same essential truths about God

The Chalcedonian Definition defines

That Jesus had two distinct but united natures

Which disciple would not believe without seeing Jesus' wounds?

Thomas

The most inexplicable food group for Australians and New Zealanders is

Vegemite

Which of the following is not a biblical image for God's motherly action?

a joyful mother at a wedding

faith is...

a requirement

Faith is important...

always

All human language about God is

analogical

God creating from nothing (ex nihilo) means that

before God created there was nothing

Rejecting creeds makes it easier for the Christian church to do what?

change orthodox teachings

Faith can refer to anything except

duty

Collapsing faith into obedience results in

duty, fear of failure, legalism

Which of the following was not a genre used by New Testament authors?

epic

Faith impacts primarily

every element of life

What was NOT a factor in determining the authority of a text being considered for inclusion in the canon?

extensive geographic distribution

A common atheistic critique of Christianity is:

faith is blind

T/F Advances in language have made it possible to explain God entirely using human speech.

false

T/F All Baptists reject the creeds.

false

T/F All protestant churches include the same creed in their doctrinal statements.

false

T/F Apocalyptic is one of the three categories of Scripture in the Old Testament.

false

T/F Basic human needs of food, clothing, and shelter are assumed to be met before a person can say "I believe" in the creed.

false

T/F Central to the creeds is a repetition of God's faithfulness to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob since these are the foundation of God's work for Israel.

false

T/F Early Christian councils drew on pagan philosophy as much as Scripture for the formulation of a creed's wording

false

T/F Faith and faithfulness are identical

false

T/F Gnosticism affirms belief in only one physical reality with no afterlife

false

T/F God is a Father in the same way human males can be fathers.

false

T/F Ignatius wrote that even illiterate barbarians professed the contents of the creed.

false

T/F Modalism is one way to express the doctrine of the Trinity.

false

T/F St. Francis of Assisi said, "Our hearts are restless until they find their rest in [God]."

false

T/F The "facts" of faith are derived from direct revelation alone.

false

T/F The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha are different names for the same group of texts not included in the Christian canon.

false

T/F The Muratorian canon is significant because it lists the authoritative books of the Old Testament.

false

T/F The persecutions of Tiberius forced Christians to identify and protect their sacred Scriptures.

false

T/F There is only one explicit Trinitarian formula in the entire Bible.

false

T/F the Bible alone is sufficient for all belief

false

T/F the Shema was primarily about what God would do for Israel in the future

false

Which of the following is not a promise of God

monetary provision

Which book was almost excluded from the Christian canon?

revelation

what is the continuing purpose of the creeds?

summarize the story of christianity

Faith is primarily directed toward

the Bible, God's actions in the Old Testament, the witness of the apostles

Which of the following is not a result of faith?

the right to judge

Which doctrine, included in the creeds, was rejected by 18th century English Baptists?

the trinity

Knowledge of and proclamation of "the faith" is a requirement for deacons as outlined by Paul.

true

T/F A central reason for calling God "Father" is due to Jesus calling God Father.

true

T/F Belief in the triune God is fundamental to Christian orthodoxy.

true

T/F Creeds helpfully eliminate some levels of division by their simplicity.

true

T/F Creeds were used as a way to identify acceptable Christian belief in a community.

true

T/F Cyril of Jerusalem expanded Jesus' mustard-seed analogy to describe the power of creeds.

true

T/F Deuteronomy 6:4-5 contains the earliest creed in the Bible

true

T/F Faith as an act is more than agreeing to a list of facts.

true

T/F Faith in something is inherent to all humans.

true

T/F Hymns were an alternative form of creeds for early followers of Jesus

true

T/F In the early church, professing the creed was almost guaranteed to result in persecution.

true

T/F Jesus and Paul affirmed the Shema in their teaching

true

T/F Omnipotence is another way of saying "almighty."

true

T/F Praying to God as Father is a foreign concept in other world religions, even monotheistic religions.

true

T/F The Shepherd of Hermas was included in many early lists of Christian Scriptures.

true

T/F The gospel is at the center of Jesus' call to faith.

true

T/F The gospel that Jesus taught is the same gospel for all Christians.

true

T/F The truth of the gospel is dependent on the Trinity.

true

T/F There is one God with three distinct persons.

true

T/F the distinctive feature of Jewish belief in the Old Testament is in the belief of God

true