Doctrine of Scripture
Biblical Genres
OT Features and Genres
Gospels
Epistles
100

This Person of the of the Trinity is responsible for the writing of Scripture via the means of human authors. 

Who is the Holy Spirit?

100

This genre is made up of New Testament letters written by Paul, Peter, John, and a couple others.

What are Epistles?

100

This genre makes up a very large part of the Old Testament and describes the story of God's plan and people from Creation to post-exile of the Israelites. 

What is Historical Narrative?

100

This book features the "I AM" statements from Jesus, and refers to Jesus as "The Word".

What is John?

100

This Apostle wrote most of the New Testament Epistles.

Who is Paul?

200

This is the word that the Christian church to describe what the Holy Spirit did to cause the writing of Scripture.

What is Inspiration?

200

This genre is mostly made up of the book of Revelation, but certain sections of the books of Daniel and Ezekiel are considered examples of this genre as well.

What is Apocalyptic?

200

This genre is considered part of Historical Narrative, was written by Moses, and features the first five books of the Bible.

What is Law or Pentateuch?

200

These books are called The Synoptic Gospels.

What are Matthew, Mark and Luke?

200

The epistles that Paul wrote to Timothy and Titus are called this type of epistle.

What are Pastoral Epistles?

300

These are the two categories of Revelation that God has given us, which can also be summarized as Nature and Scripture. 

What are General and Special?

300

These five books make up the Wisdom/Poetry genre.

What are Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Solomon?

300

This literary feature makes up large portions of the books of Genesis, Job, Proverbs and others, and is characterized by a "ABCBA" progression of phrasing or thought.

What is Chiasmus?

300

This book features a geneology that traces Jesus' royal Davidic lineage, and also features the Sermon on the Mount.

What is Matthew?

300

These verses "Let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love" come from this epistle.

What is I John?

400

This type of philosophy states that truth is only a matter of perspective and context; truth is not objective.

What is Relativism?

400

This genre features large books that are called "major" as well as smaller book that are "minor".

What is Prophecy?

400

These three offices in Israelite society are all fulfilled in perfect form in the person of Jesus Christ.

What are Prophet, Priest and King?

400

This book is considered to have the Apostle Peter as its first hand source.

What is the Gospel of Mark?

400

Seth discussed Paul's letters written to the church in THIS CITY, and even showed a video, regarding all of its many sin problems, including divisiveness, acceptance of sexual immorality, flaunting spiritual gifts, and more. 

What is Corinth?

500

This hyphenated phrase is used by Paul in 2 Timothy 3:16 to describe Inspiration of Scripture by the Holy Spirit. 

God-breathed

500

Seth said this genre "might be his favorite" from a literary analysis standpoint.

What are the Gospels?

500

If a Prophet is considered God's representative to the people, this office could be considered the people's representative to God.

What is Priest?

500
If you can recall Seth's breakdown of the Gospels, each Gospel had a particular audience and a particular aspect of Jesus that it highlights. These are the audience and aspect of Jesus highlighted in the book of Luke.

What is Greek and Man?

500

This is the Epistle that Seth said we'll be studying in 2026.

What is James?

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