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Religion exam
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Advocate | holy spirit |
| Annunciation | the announcement of the Incarnation by the angel Gabriel to Mary |
| Apostles | Jesus' inner circle disciples |
| Ascension | Jesus returning to heaven to his father after 40 days |
| Barabbas | The man that Jesus saved from being crucified |
| Canon | a religious rule put in place by someone of authority |
| Canticle | a hymn or chant, typically with a biblical text, forming a regular part of a church service. |
| Covenant | a deal between humans and god |
| Crucifixion | Jesus being nailed to the cross dying for us |
| Disciple | follower |
| Double Tradition | matthew and Luke |
| Eschatology | study of the last things |
| Essenes | Withdrew from Jerusalem, completely settled near dead sea desert, lived hermit-like/cloistered like |
| Genealogy | tracing back to descendants |
| Gospel | good news |
| Heaven | the state of being in complete, eternal union with god |
| Hebrews | historical term a tribal people who eventually became founders and citizen of a nation called isreal |
| Hell | the state of being eternally separated from God. |
| Holy of Holies | The inner most part of the temple |
| Immaculate Conception | God preserved the Virgin Mary from the taint of original sin from the moment she was conceived |
| Incarnation | Christ is fully man in flesh and fully divine like God. |
| Israelites | the people of the nation of Israel |
| Jews | after the period of exile in Babylon Palestine |
| Law | 10 commandments |
| Levites | A Levite is someone from the tribe of levi The Levites were given the responsibility of overseeing the tabernacle and the temple |
| Messiah | savior |
| Miracle | an extraordinary event manifesting divine intervention in human affairs. |
| Moral Evil | caused by creatures with free will |
| Natural Evil | caused by elements beyond our control. |
| Obedience | adherence to the church's teachings and our faith |
| Parable | A story intended to convey a religious truth or teaching using metaphors. |
| Paraclete | greek for holy spirit |
| Parousia | second coming of Christ |
| Paschal Mystery | life, death, resurrection, and ascension of Christ to bring us salvation |
| Pentecost | holy spirit coming coming upon the apostles. They receive the holy spirit. |
| Pharisees | Interpreters of the written and oral law; had considerable influence in Israelite society |
| Pontius Pilate | Roman governor that sentenced jesus to crucifixion |
| Purgatory | transition in which God accomplishes a final cleansing of selfishness and sin in order to achieve the holiness necessary to enter fully into the glory of God in heaven |
| Purity Laws | separating the clean from the unclean, the sacred from the profane |
| Quelle | double tradition source between Luke and Matthew |
| Resurrection | the passage of jesus from death to life on the third day after his crucifixion |
| Sadducees | They followed only the written torah, rejected all laws that were not explicitly written in the torah |
| Salvation History | Understand the redemptive activities God has done for us. |
| Samaritans | Disputed the proper worship of the lord Opposed to the rebuilding of Jerusalem and the temple and favoring their holy place built on mount Gerizim in samaria |
| Scourging | Jesus first punishment from Pilate; whipping |
| Social Evil | caused at one point by moral evil but now lives in society’s value system |
| Stations of the Cross | religious devotion dedicated to the sufferings of Christ |
| Theotokos | greek for mother of God |
| Transfiguration | Christ's transformed most holy body |
| Triple Tradition | Material shared by Matthew, mark, and Luke |
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