Bible
Name of that portion of the Christian Bible dealing with the Jewish stories/history
What is the Old Testament?
A word that symbolizes complex ideas or emotions, making them easier to understand. Example,like when the Bible says "Jesus was raised from the dead".
What is a Metaphor ? The example means to most people that his spirit/influence/teachings live on as opposed to his body came alive
Someone who tries to follow the teachings of Jesus
What is a Christian?
The book in the Bible that tells two different creation stories
What is the book of Geneses ?
The source of the giving of presents at Christmas time.
What is the visit of the 3 Wisemen and their gifts to the baby Jesus ?
Name of that portion of the Bible dealing with Jesus and what followed his life
What is the New Testament?
The basic message of Jesus
What is "to love one another" and to reach out to the oppressed"
Other faiths that have important messages and beliefs
What are Islam, Buddhism, Judaism, Humanism, etc?
The book of the Bible that we find Moses going up the mountain and receiving the 10 Commandments from God
What is the Book of Exodus ?
The Christmas story is probable the actual way it happened or maybe it was a simplistic way of telling a story to the early Christians
What is a a simplistic way of telling a story to people who weren't there ?
The specific 4 books of the Bible dealing with the life of Jesus
What are Mathew, Mark, Luke and John ?
Stories than Jesus used to simplify a concept or an important message . Example, "when Jesus talked about the shepard who lost one of his sheep and felt it was important to find it...his message is really if Noah started doing bad things, we'd want to rescue him....or others who did the same thing
What is a parable "
A term that labels a person who does not believe that God exist.
What is an Atheist ?
The central most book of the Bible that contains prayers and songs used in worship written mostly by Dave who eventually became King David.
What is the Book of Psalms ?
Most religions have a common theme.
What is the "Golden Rule"?
The book of the Bible dealing with the beginning of the church's history
What is the Book of ACTs?
The action that Jesus took the resulted in us not knowing how he did it. Example " Raising Lazarus from the dead"
What is a Miracle ?
One who believes in the "Big Bang theory" can not believe in the existence of God True or False
What is False ?
The King who is given credit when we say a decision between two difficult decisions is a wise one.
Who is King Solomon ?
Te person whose letters to new churches make up most of the books the Bible dealing with with early Christianity
Who is PAUL?
The thing that we have today that causes us to pooh-pooh many of Jesus's actions without recognizing their deeper message
What is Science ?
A term that labels a person who feels if a God exist, it's impossible to know for sure.
What is an Agnostic ?
The country that the Jewish people fled from to wander in the wilderness for 40 years to eventually end up in the "promised land", today call Israel.
What is the country of Egypt ?