Origins
Christianity is seen by Christians as the fulfillment of this religion
What is Judaism?
Where Jesus was born
Where is Bethlehem?
A Christian denomination that beleives that Jesus instituted a line of succession as the head of the church, beginning with Peter that is still in place today
What is Catholicism?
The concept that there is one God, but three persons.
What is the Trinity?
Law given to Moses that provide a basis for Christian Ethics
What are the 10 Commandments?
A person who went from hating and persecuting Christians to writing most of the New Testament because of a miraculous conversion.
Who is Paul?
On the night before he died, Jesus took two elements and used them as symbols for his death.
What is bread and wine?
This doctrine states that an intermediate realm exists for souls who are Christian but need to repent of their sins before entering heaven.
What is Purgatory?
Just as Jesus was raised to life after death, his sacrifice promises this for Christians.
What is salvation?
The Torah, Jewish history, wisdom literature and the prophets
What is the Old Testament?
Those who were politically in charge of Jerusalem at the time of Jesus
What is the Roman Empire?
Star worshippers from the Persian religion of Zoroastrianism who came to worship Jesus in the years after his birth.
Who were the wise men/magi?
A group of regional churches that reflect the different cultures and identities of their people.
What is Orthodox Christianity?
The central creed in the Western Church
What is the Apostle's Creed?
the beginning passage of the Sermon on the Mount
What is the Beatitudes?
The Jewish religious sect focused on interpreting and adding to the Torah at the time of Jesus
Who are the Pharisees?
The day Christians remember Jesus' triumphant entry into Jerusalem before his death
What is Palm Sunday?
The name for the period of time where Martin Luther, a Catholic monk in Germany, attacked the Church for corruption, and eventually set up his own religious group based only on scripture.
What is the reformation?
The understanding that God provided knoweldge of himself through Jesus and the sacred writings of Christianity (the Bible)
What is special revelation?
The three original languages that the Bible was written in
What is Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek?
The hope that someone would come, a man who, like others in Jewish history such as King David, would lead an independent and powerful Judea.
What is Messianism?
The opening chapter of Matthew’s Gospel links Jesus with the family of who through Jesus’ legal father, Joseph.
Who is King David?
A worldwide trans-denominational movement within Protestant Christianity that maintains the belief that the essence of the Gospel consists of the doctrine of salvation by grace alone, solely through faith in Jesus's atonement.
What is Evangelicalism?
Jesus is fully God and fully huma
What is the hypostatic union?
A source of Christian ethics that were a fusion of Jewish ethics and vice lists to be found in Greco-Roman culture.
What are the Pauline letters?