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History 9
Question | Answer |
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the period after the collapse of the Roman Empire; characterized by a distortion of Christianity | Middle Ages |
the time period known as the Middle Ages | A.D. 500 to 1500 |
the apostle who had not been one of the original disciples, and to whom Christ made a special appearance | Paul |
the twelve men who had firsthand knowledge of Jesus and whom God sent out to preach the gospel | apostles |
the portion of Scripture which foretold Christ's coming and which Jesus used with reverence | Old Testament |
the portion of Scripture which records Christ's first coming, life, ministry, death, and resurrection; written by apostles or men close to the apostles under divine inspiration; consists of the permanent record of the gospel and admonitions to the church | New Testament |
the approximate year the New Testament was completed | A.D. 100 |
the most common form of the Greek language; used for writing the New Testament | koine |
an assembly or group of people | church |
non-Jews | Gentiles |
the religion of the Jews | Judaism |
the city in which church leaders met to discuss the problem of Gentile believers and Jewish law; location of the first Christian church | Jerusalem |
What was the decision of the church leaders in Jerusalem concerning Jewish law and Gentile believers? | Church leaders came to an agreement that Gentile believers did not have to practice all the Jewish laws of the Old Testament. |
name for a church leader which comes from the Greek word for "servant" | deacon |
name for a church leader which comes from the Greek term meaning "overseer" or "superintendent" | bishop |
name for a church leader which comes from the Greek word which is also the source for the word priest | elder |
the true Head of the Church, according to the Bible | Christ |
the term which refers to the special leaders, authorized to speak and act in Jesus' name, appointed by Christ Himself | apostolic authority |
2) baptism 3) the Lord's Supper 1) symbolic ordinances instituted by Christ and the early church 2) a personal, public identification with the greatest act of human history—the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ 3) commemorates th | 1) baptism & the Lord's Supper 2) baptism 3) the Lord's Supper |
the church leader who loved to "have preeminence" and who put himself above God's Word | Diotrephes |
the term which means "universal" or "one"; can be used to describe the great "invisible" church of all believers | catholic |
the first single, visible, large, organized church for all Christians; soon led to dominance of one local church over the other and distortion of Christianity | Church of Rome |
the church leader in Gaul who said that every church must agree with the Church of Rome | Irenaeus |