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Religion Final
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |