Word Power
This comes from a Latin word meaning "influence" or "command."
What is authority?
When someone objects that the Bible was merely written by human beings, the usual assumption is this.
What is God doesn't exist?
This criterion used to decide if a work belonged in the New Testament deals with whether or not a text communicates the right teaching.
What is orthodoxy?
In John 8:58, Jesus claims this messianic title for himself.
What is the Son of God?
TRUE OR FALSE: According to the Bible, God created and sustains the universe; his authority is supreme over every aspect of life.
What is true?
The original meaning of this word in New Testament Greek meant to "place oneself under authority."
True or false: A lack of external evidence would be proof of the Bible’s falsity.
What is false.
This criterion used to decide if a work belonged in the New Testament deals with the original 'twelve.'
What is apostolicity or goes back to the apostles.
In John 5:22, Jesus claims this particular authority over mankind.
What is to judge?
TRUE OR FALSE: The truths of Scripture are not true for all cultures at all times.
What is false?
This is a collection of fifty-two gnostic texts written sometime between the second and fourth centuries AD.
What are the Lost Gospels?
This was a second-century heretical Christian movement that taught that matter and the physical body are inherently evil, and that salvation comes through an esoteric knowledge of divine reality.
What is gnosticism?
This criterion used to decide if a work belonged in the New Testament deals with whether or not it was widely accepted.
What is acceptance by the early church?
In John 14:25–26, Jesus promises to send this as a 'comforter' to his disciples and to remind them of his teaching.
What is the Holy Spirit/Holy Ghost?
TRUE OR FALSE: According to Romans 13:1–2, the government derives its authority from itself.
What is false?
This is the collection of biblical writings commonly accepted as genuine and authoritative.
What is canon?
True or false: in the absence of original manuscripts, scholars do not have enough sources to reconstruct the Old and New Testaments.
What is false?
True or false: the original New Testament documents were written sometime in the third century AD.
What is FALSE.
According to Mark 2:10, Jesus has the authority to do this.
What is forgive sins?
This is the number of original Old Testament sources that still exist.
What is zero?
These are differences between particular words, phrases, or passages within multiple copies of the same ancient manuscript.
What are textual variants?
There was not a collection of texts functioning as the New Testament BEFORE the emperor Constantine.
What is false?
True or false: the truths of Scripture are not true for all cultures at all times.
What is FALSE.
True or false: Jesus claimed authority for the ministry of his disciples.
What is TRUE.
This is the number of New Testament sources that still exist.
What is zero?