Old Testament
Name me the first book of the Scriptures?
Genesis!
Peter, Jude, Paul and James
What is an Ecumenical Council?
An ecumenical council, also called general council, is a meeting of bishops and other church authorities to consider and rule on questions of Christian doctrine, administration, discipline, and other mattersin which those entitled to vote are convoked from the whole world (oikoumene) and which secures the approbation of the whole Church.
Pascha!
What happens at Baptism/Chrismation?
One dies to the old self (that which is corruptible and fallen) and has the new life in Christ and ability to life it by the grace and fellowship of the Holy Spirit.
What is the Old Testament?
The first covenant of God beginning with Genesis and ending before Christ.
2 Corinthians 3:6 ESV
Who has made us sufficient to be ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
1 Corinthians 11:25 ESV
In the same way also he took the cup, after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.”
Luke 22:20 ESV
And likewise the cup after they had eaten, saying, “This cup that is poured out for you is the new covenant in my blood.
Jeremiah 31:31-34 ESV
“Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah, not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, declares the Lord. For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people. And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”
This book includes the life of the Church after the Resurrection and Ascension of Christ. It is also the book in which Pentecost occurs.
Acts of the Apostles
The first Ecumenical Council was when and possibly where?
Nicea 325
(will also accept Acts 15)
What is a Church Jurisidction?
A mode of hierarchy. We have an anomoly in America where we have many.
Antiochian,OCA, Greek....etc
This term refers to a view of salvation guided by the conviction that the final glorification of humanity is union with God. Language of “becoming God” is one of the chief ways the church fathers, especially of the Greek tradition, speak about salvation. Salvation is entry into the divine life in communion with God. This doesn’t involve the destruction of the human creature and its disappearance into God. Rather, deification means that fellowship with the Holy Trinity is the culmination and perfection of creatureliness.
Theosis
Name to me 6 Prophets of the Old Testament?
A lot here
Who were all the people at the mount of transfiguration (6 total give me 4).
Christ
Moses & Elijah
Peter, John and James
He fought the idea of Christ being of the same essence as the Father. His teaching was condemned in the Ecumenical Council of 325.
Arius
What occurs 50 days after Pascha and explain?
The Eastern Orthodox Church, Pentecost is one of the Orthodox Great Feasts and is considered to be the highest ranking Great Feast of the Lord, second in rank only to Pascha (Easter). The service is celebrated with an All-night Vigil on the eve of the feast day, and the Divine Liturgy on the day of the feast itself. Orthodox churches are often decorated with greenery and flowers on this feast day, and the celebration is intentionally similar to the Jewish holiday of Shavuot, which celebrates the giving of the Mosaic Law.
The Festival of Weeks is also known as the Feast of Harvest in Exodus 23:16 and the Day of First Fruits in Numbers 28:26.[19] In Exodus 34:22, it is called the "first fruits of the wheat harvest."
Name me the "7 Deadly Sins."
He was betrayed by his brothers, sold into slavery, became a beacon of forgivness, was married to one bride and delivered his people from death. We celebrate his life on Holy Monday as a type of Christ.
Joseph the Righteous
Give me 7 books of the New Testament.
Gospel According to Matthew
Gospel According to Mark
Gospel According to Luke
Gospel According to John
Acts of the Apostles
Letter of Paul to the Romans
I Corinthians
II Corinthians
Letter of Paul to the Galatians
Letter of Paul to the Ephesians
Letter of Paul to the Philippians
Letter of Paul to the Colossians
I Thessalonians
II Thessalonians
I Timothy
II Timothy
Letter of Paul to Titus
Letter of Paul to Philemon
Letter to the Hebrews
Letter of James
I Peter
II Peter
I John
II John
III John
Letter of Jude
Revelation to John
He fought the title of the "Theotokos." He teaching condemned in the 3rd Ecumenical Council.
Nestorios
Give me 5 major feasts of Christ (or Holy Trinity).
In the parable of the bridegroom, how many wise virgins are there?
Give me 2 books that are in the "Orthodox Bible" that cannot be found in most Protestant copies.
Canonical for the Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Oriental Orthodox Church:
Canonical only for the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Oriental Orthodox Church
Give me 5 places or communities to whom books of New Testament were written to?
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When was the last Ecumenical Council and why was it convoked?
787
Iconoclasm
Give me 3 Major Feasts of the Theotokos! (Will give one hint - well maybe)
Entry of Virgin Mary into the Temple -November 21
Annunciation Of Virgin Mary - March 25
Dormition of the Theotokos -August 15
Name me 15 Saints.
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