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Theolody ch 6
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Question | Answer |
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Why did God become man in Jesus Christ? | to save us by reconciling with God to reveal the depth of Jesus love to serve as a model of holiness to enable is to partake in gods nature |
Matthew showed Jesus was part of the Chosen People called jesus the | Son of David, Son of Abraham |
Why did Matthew include women? | to show God is full of suprises |
What two theological points was Luke making in his genealogy? | 1) Jesus is indeed human and a descendant f the first humans 2) Jesus was the Son of God |
The genealogies are not meant to be comprehensive | True |
Joseph was the | foster father not biological father but also had legal right to claim to be a descendant of David |
Mary did not die before Jesus' began his public life | true |
Jesus experienced all the physical and emotional things that challenge us which is: | - Hunger and thirst - Endured insults and in jury - Deserted by his friends - Tired, and afraid, and sad, and angry - Tempted, and yet never sinned. |
Matthew spoke to | Jews christians |
How many women appeared? | five |
Tamar | harlot (prostitute) |
Rahab | prostitue |
Bathsheba | had an adulterous affair w/ King David |
Luke spoke to | Gentile christians |
Luke's point | Jesus is truly human; son of Adam, the ancestor of all human beings; but also, Son of God |
Differences in the names of the ancestors of Matthew and Luke | - Not intended to be comprehensive - Condensed summaries of the lineage of Jesus - Done to aid in memorization for early Christians who would pass on the stories orally |
before public ministry Jesus worked as a | carpenter |
Jesus was raised in | Jewish faith |
Jesus was circumcised the | eighth day after birth in accord with Jewish law |
Where did Jesus grow up most his life | Nazareth |
Jesus is both God and man | true |
St. Hilary of Poitiers was acclaimed a bishop by his citizens after devoting to dispelled the heretical belief of Arianism | true |
What languages did Jesus know? | Greek, Aramaic, Hebrew (Grew up speaking Aramaic) |
In the schooling Jesus received there was a lot of | memorization |
What is temptation? | the inducement to sin that comes through some sort of persuasion or the promise of a good or pleasure |
Like every human being, Jesus hd the same kind of experiences that all of us do; hunger, thirst, and exhaustion | true |
The human spirit has two parts which are? | the intellect and free will |
Jesus was tempted for _ days in the desert and Peter tempted him t be what? | 40; a worldly Messiah |
What did Satan tempt Jesus to do? aka the greatest temptation | turn away from his mission of his Passion and crucifixion |
Neither angles in heaven nor he himself knew the day or hour of the world ending | true |
Jesus had immediate knowledge of the Father and the secret thoughts of people | true |
What are some human emotions Jesus showed? | wept, anger, needed solitude but enjoyed human companionship, troubled, stressed, and sorrowfu |
Response to anger is evil itself | true |
Two explanations for the New testaments references to Jesus' "brothers and sisters" | 1) close relatives |
What caused some religious authorities to see Jesus as a threat? | he taught on his own authority; not quoting rabbis |
To his neighbors, Jesus seemed extraordinary | false |
Jesus was a real human being, who, though sorely tempted, never sinned | true |
Old testament prophecies | born of the tribe of Judah, house of David, in Bethlehem, of a virgin, and worshiped by kings from afar, and perform great miracles |
New Testament prophecies | be betrayed sold for forty pieces of silver, suffer fr our sins, be led like a sheep to slaughter, hands and feet pierced |
Jesus was mocked by | Gentiles |
Denied how many times by Peter | three |
The fulfillment of his prophecies supported his claims to be on a divine mission | false |
"Son of Man" | Jesus' favorite title; emphasizes human nature and he was a supernatural figure |
Second Isaiah wrote the Fourth suffering Servant encouraged the exiled Israelites in Babylon | true |
Jesus read a passage from Isaiah before returning to his hometown | true |
What was Jesus proclaiming about Isaiah's prophecy? | the Messiah was actually coming |
two points were made when he defended hid audience | no prophet is honored in his own country God's ppl would reject the Messiah and God would take his message to the Gentiles |
The incident at Nazareth teaches the people really did no want to accept the Messiah nor believe in him when he had come | false |
Messiah was to be | flashy, forceful, military |
Irony of the blind man | he couldn't see but knew Jesus was God, where the crowd could see but did not see he was God |
Most people did not believe that Jesus was a great prophet | false |
Some of the opponents of Jesus could not deny his miracles, but said Satanic | true |
Jesus performed miracles to | help conclude that Jesus is the Son of God |
Jesus was charged with | blasphemy |
No credible historians deny the existence of Jesus | true |
There are numerous references to Jesus outside the official canon of Sacred Scripture that date back to which century | Second |
He sought the Roman emperor for advice on how Christians should be investigated, tried, and punished; : 62-113 AD; Trajan saw Christians as potentially dangerous | Pliny the younger |
The ancient source inaccurately assumed tat a Jewish disturbance in Rome in AD 49 was caused by Chrestus, a likely misspelling of the name Jesus ; roman biographer. Wrote about an incident (41-54), an instigation of Chrestus | Suetonius |
This source chronicles how the Emperor Nero blamed the great fire in Rome on the Christians, which gave him an excuse to persecute them; : c. 55-117 AD, roman historian, pagan | Tacitus |
Josephus | Jewish historian, mentioned John the Baptist , reference to the rule of Pontius Pilate |
Two qualities that define out human nature | - Human body - Immortal soul |
The human soul, or spirit, has two faculties: intellect and free will | - Jesus’ intellect enabled him to reason, learn, and reflect upon his emotions - His will allowed him to choose between good and evil - Had emotions and made choices - His humanity like ours in all things but SIN |
a reference to a human being, as distinct from God. | Son of Man |
is a supernatural figure who will come to judge humanity | Son of Man |
4 kinds of miracles | Physical healing Exorcism Nature Raising of the Death |
Demonstrate Jesus’ power over sin, and reveal who Jesus is | Physical healing |
Performed by Jesus to establish his power over Satan | Exorcism |
Attest to Jesus’ power over nature | Nature |
Mastery over life and death | Raising of the Death |