Books of the Bible - Old Testament
This is the first book of the Bible
What is Genesis?
This is the first Commandment.
What is Love God?
These are the first four books of the New Testament and are referred to as the Gospels.
What are Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John?
This is another historical creed, which is longer than the Apostle's Creed and was used to further define who Jesus is. It was adopted at the Council of Nicea in the 4th Century.
What is the Nicene Creed?
This Psalm begins "The Lord is my Shepherd,"
What is Psalm 23?
Name the first five books of the Bible in order.
What is Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy?
This commandment number says to remember the Sabbath.
What is the fourth Commandment?
Most, but not all, of the Epistles are letters that were written to early Christians by this apostle. Many of his letters were written to specific communities or people.
Who is Paul?
This word comes from the Latin word meaning "to give one's heart" and is often translated as "I believe."
What is creed?
This provides a model of how to pray and combines the prayers that Jesus taught his disciples in Matthew 6:9-13 and Luke 11:2-4.
What is the Lord's Prayer?
This book of the Bible contains the story of the Israelites journey out of Egypt.
What is Exodus?
This Commandment uses the "memory" motion of placing one hand on your chest.
What is Honor your mother and your father?
This book of the New Testament describes a vision of Jesus and describes what heaven is like.
Hint: It also describes a battle in which good triumphs over evil.
What is Revelation?
The word "catholic" with a lowercase c means this.
This verse says "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life."
What is John 3:16?
Books 6-17 in the Old Testament are referred to as "History." The first 5 books are referred to as this.
What is The Law?
The "memory" motion of using your 8 fingers to "grab" stuff in front of you stands for which commandment?
What is "Thou Shalt not Steal"?
The books in the Old Testament of the Bible contain The Law, History, Songs, Poems, and Prophets. This New Testament contains these four things.
What is Gospels, Acts, Epistles (or Letters), and Revelation?
The phrase "the communion of saints" in the Apostle's Creed refers to this.
What is the relationships among Christians past, present, and future?
The book of Hebrews describes this communion as a "cloud of witnesses." The cloud refers to all of the saints who have gone before us as our encouragers in the faith, such as our great forebears Abraham and Sarah, or the ones who are great only for us, such as our parents and teachers in the faith.
The Presbyterian Church is a connectional church where congregations come to together to form several "levels" of a representative government. These are the levels within the Presbyterian church, starting with the name of the ruling body within an individual church.
What is Session, Presbytery, Synod, and General Assembly?
Several congregations come together to form presbyteries, several presbyteries form synods, and the synods unite in the General Assembly.
What is 12?
What is "Thou shalt not covet"? (Jealousy)
The Old Testament was written in Hebrew (with the exception of a couple chapters written in Aramaic) between 1400-450 BCE. It consists of 39 books and makes up 75% of the Bible. The New Testament, whose 27 books make up only 25% of the Bible, was written between 50-100 CE in this language.
What is common Greek?
This is the Apostle's Creed. It provides an important answer to the question, "What do you believe?" It was designed to help Christians understand and proclaim the most basic beliefs of our shared faith. Associated with baptism, our oldest creed was developed over 600 years and finalized in the 8th century. (Recite the Apostle's Creed.)
What is
I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ his only Son, our Lord; who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried; he ascended into hell; the third day he rose again from the dead; he ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the the right hand of God the Father Almighty; from thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead. I believe in the Holy Ghost; the holy catholic church; the communion of saints; the forgiveness of sins; the resurrection of the body; and the life everlasting. Amen.
One of the biggest and most well known "splits" in church history was when Martin Luther challenged the Roman Catholic church to reform and launched the Protestant Reformation when he posted his 95 Theses on the door of the Wittenberg Cathedral. The "Protestants" then split again several times throughout church history. The Presbyterian church formed based on the teachings and leadership of this man, who wrote a book, "Institutes of the Christian Religion" based on his thoughts about Luther's writings.
Who is John Calvin?