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Religion Final
Question | Answer |
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Creation | 1-light/darkness 2-water/sky 3-land/sea 4-sun/moon 5-fish/birds 6-animals/humans |
First creation story | priestly writers;humans created last |
Second creation story | Yahwist writers; detailed; humans important |
Old Testament | Covenant is through Moses and for the Israelites; 46 books |
Revelation | Visions to John about the future |
Pentateuch | first 5 books of the OT |
Adam and Eve | First humans created; committed first sin |
Oral Tradition | passed down orally |
Abraham | scriptures first ancestor |
Covenant | promise through God |
Joseph | youngest of Jacobs's sons |
Circumcision | removal of the foreskin; covenant |
Exodus | departure;tells how God led the Israelites out of a life of hardship and slavery in Egypt. God made a covenant with them and gave them the Law to order their lives. |
Passover | celebrates exodus of israelites from egypt |
Mt. Sinai | where 10 commandments were given to Moses |
Ark of the Covenant | Ark built at the command of God |
Joshua | Leader of israelites after Moses' death; lead people into the promised land |
Samuel | eli raised him to be a judge; god speaks to him while sleeping |
Saul | first king appointed by samuel; great military leader |
Psalms | 150 poems written by David |
David | shepherd and played harp |
Solomon | Asks for gift of wisdom; wrote proverbs, the song of songs and maybe the book of wisdom; love of foreign women |
Jerusalem | holy land |
Ezekiel | ate scroll |
Hosea | prophet who married a future prostitute |
Elijah | Chariot of fire |
Babylonian exile | jews were captives in babylon |
Jeremiah | presents prophecy of the coming messiah |
New Testament | through Jesus and for all people; 27 books |
Gospel writers | yahwist and priestly |
Gospels | describes life, death, and the resurrection of Jesus |
Palestine | refers specifically to the southwestern coastal area of Israel occupied by the Philistines |
Emmanuel | name supposed to be given to the messiah |
Matthew was written by | a jewish scribe |
Matthew was written in | 70-80 AD |
What part of the infancy narrative is only found in Matthew? | The angel appearing to Joseph |
What audience was Matthew written for? | Jewish Christians |
Luke was written in | 70-80 AD in Greece |
Author of Luke | Doctor and follower of Paul |
Audience of Luke | poor farmers in Greece |
Theme of Luke | Jesus came for all people |
Luke is known as the gospel of.. | women |
Unlike other gospels, luke does not end with... | Jesus' resurrection |
Luke focuses on the idea that | Jesus came for all people and that everyone should be judged on their merits |
Shepherds | see Jesus first as a baby |
Apostles | 12 Apostles |
Temptation in the Desert | devil tempts Jesus in the desert |
Parables | short moral stories |
Beatitudes | blessings from Jesus recorded in the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew and the Sermon on the Plain in Luke |
Miracles | demonstrations of power |
Jewish Sanhedrin | assembly of twenty-three judges appointed in every city in Israel |
Paschal Mystery | suffering, death, resurrection and glorification of Jesus |
Pilate | ordered Jesus' crucifixion |
Mary | Jesus' mother |
Acts of the Apostles was written by | Luke |
Acts of the Apostles was written in | 70-80 AD |
Acts of the Apostles focuses on | The ministry of the Apostles and the development of the church |
Stephen | first christian martyr; stoned to death for being a Christian |
Deacons | 7 servants |
Paul | wrote 13 letters |
Council or Jerusalem | Paul fought for the rights of gentile Christians |
Parousia | Second coming of the Lord to judge the world |
Apocalyptic | God controls history and the outcome of events, not the present evil rulers or forces of evil |
Lamb of God | Jesus |
Peter | First gentile to convert to Christianity angel appears to him after appearing to Cornelius |
The Vatican | Where the Pope is |
3 major divisions within Christianity | orthodox, protestant, catholic |
Thomas | "doubting thomas" |
Abba | means father |
Barabbas | Jewish prisoner set free instead of Jesus during the Passover festival |
Eschatology | The study of final things |
James | Becomes the Bishop of Jerusalem which is the center of their ministry |