Pentateuch
The number of books in the Pentateuch
What is five
The five books of the Pentateuch
What are Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Deuteronomy, Numbers?
The source that both Matthew and Luke sued, but Mark did not.
What is the Q Source?
An example of an Ultimate Question
Anything reasonable
The belief, in opposition to Christian doctrine, that there are many gods.
What is polytheism?
The knowledge of the existence of God and His basic attributes that can be realized through nature and human reason.
What is Natural Revelation?
Think of the words good, better, best. You can only speak of such different qualities by comparing them to a supreme model or reference point: God.
God is the Supreme Model
The portion of the Bible that is taken up by the Old Testament.
What is 2/3?
CE
What is Common Era
Lectio means ________
What is Read?
Key word: Happy are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.
simple living
The book of the OT that contains the story of creation.
What is Genesis?
The portion of the Bible that is taken up by the NT.
What is 1/3?
The Synoptic Gospels
Who are Matthew, Mark, and Luke?
This word means "covenant" or "agreement."
What is Testament?
Source
What is Quelle?
developed the five "proofs" for God's existence
St. Thomas Aquinas
Nothing causes itself
God is the first cause
Catholics have this number of books in their Old Testament.
What is 46?
BCE
What is Before Common Era
Meditatio means _______.
What is Think?
Key word: Blessed are they who mourn, for they will be comforted
What is compassion or empathy?
The book of the OT that contains the story of how the Israelites fled Egypt.
What is Exodus?
This Gospel writer also wrote the Acts of the Apostles.
Who is Luke?
The meaning of Synoptic
What is See Together?
The way God communicates knowledge of Himself to humankind, mostly through His Son, Jesus Christ
What is Divine Revelation?
The story of the Savior's birth in Bethlehem.
What is the Nativity?
the study of the nature of god and religious truth.
What is theology?
The world contains beauty, symmetry, order, and power that only god could create.
God is the Grand Designer.
Catholics have this many more books in their Old Testament than do Protestants.
What is 7?
This King declared the Hebrew scriptures to be sacred.
Who is King David
Oratio means __________
What is Pray?
Key word: Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the land.
What is humility or service to others?
The book of the Pentateuch that contains directions for building the Ark of the Covenant.
What is Exodus?
The Gospels are eye witness accounts written by people who WATCHED Jesus. (T or F)
What is False
The longest Gospel
What is Luke
A binding or solemn agreement between two people or between God and people.
What is covenant?
Good News
What is Gospel?
a person who believes in a personal and provident God.
What is a theist?
The world is in motion in time and space. The the world to move, there must have been something that put it in motion.
God is the Unmoved Mover.
The number of books both Catholics and Protestants have in the New Testament.
What is 27?
Everything in the Bible = ___________ truth
What is Spiritual?
What does Contemplatio mean?
What is Contemplate?
Key words: Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be satisfied.
What is strive for justice?
In which part of the Bible can one find the Pentateuch?
Name the four Gospels.
Who are Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John?
Matthew calls Jesus the New ___________.
What is Moses?
One of the theological virtues. It is an acknowledgement of an allegiance to God.
Lover of God
What is Theophilus?
an attribute of God meaning that He is all powerful.
Omnipotent
Nothing cannot create something. For anything to exist, there had to be something that always existed to bring the other things into existence.
Everything comes from Something, and God is the Something.
Revelation is in this part of the Bible
What is the New Testament?
Not everything in the Bible = __________ truth
What is historical?
The correct order of Lectio Divina.
A. Contemplate, Read, Think, Pray
B. Think, Pray, Contemplate, Read
C. Read, Think, Pray, Contemplate
C
Key word: Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.
What is forgiveness?
Where in the Old Testament can one find the Pentateuch?
What is the first five books?
One way Jesus connected with His listeners.
One of these:
Jesus was genuine
Jesus was available
Jesus used everyday language
These synoptic Gospels have the Nativity story
What are Matthew and Luke?
From the Sermon on the Mount where Jesus taught us ways to find happiness
What are the Beatitudes?
A person who denies in theory or practice that God exists.
What is an atheist?
A person who practices a form of atheism that often expresses an indifference to the search for God.
agnostic
What does it mean to say that Thomas Aquinas' proofs are not scientific proofs? if not scientific, what are they?
They are convincing arguments to the existence of God.
Acts of the Apostles is in this part of the Bible.
What is the New Testament?
Five literary forms in the Bible
poems, letters, parables, stories, songs
When we pray during Lectio Divina, we reflect on wha tthe Lord might be saying to us in the passage. (T or F)
True
Key word: Blessed are the clean of hard, for they will see God.
What is clear or right motives?
The four categories of books in the Old Testament.
What are the Pentateuch, Historical books, Wisdom books, Prophetic books
One teaching technique Jesus used
One of these:
Jesus challenged His listeners, Jesus used metaphors and similes, Jesus appealed to His listeners' senses, Jesus spoke in parallel statements, Jesus used hyperbole or exaggeration to make a point, Jesus used Amen in unique ways
Explain the Three Source Theory
reasonable explanation - up to Mrs. McDonald
A term for non-Jews
What is gentile?
Covenant, Agreement
What is testament?
the belief in one all-powerful God
monotheism
This person suggested that we QUESTION the beauty and origin of the earth and humanity.
St. Augustine.
Jesus would have read this part of the Bible.
What is the Old Testament?
Five stages in the development of scripture
1. Events with God
2. Oral Tradition
3. Written pieces
4. Edited
5. Final scripture as we know it
When we Contemplate during Lectio Divina, we select a Bible passage and read it slowly. (T or F)
False
Key word: Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.
What is resolve conflict?