Body
What two Gospels depict Jesus post resurrection, eating and being touched?
Luke and John
What Gospel conceives of afterlife and judgement as a final great event, deferred to a future time.
Matthew
Who gets thirsty in the afterlife?
Rich man
All this being so, why should God be unable to raise bodies from the dead and allow the bodies of the damned to suffer in eternal fire.
Augustine
For Paul, upon being raised, Jesus became a….what?
life-giving spirit
Matthew, Luke, and John have different emphases on the timing of salvation and of eternal life. What was the theological problem, noted by Ehrman, that promoted thinking about salvation as a present reality and not only a future hope?
the delay of the parousia
We are basically fire. Which early Christian theologian thought this?
Origen
"I hope in you for me." It is when the "I" is at stake that the "you" is called upon in the form of hope.
Ratzinger
According to Candida Moss, if Jesus appears with opens wounds and not raised scars, what would be the ironic connotation for ancient readers?
That Jesus was still dead/phantom/ghost
“he went and made a proclamation to the spirits in prison, who in former times did not obey, when God waited patiently in the days of Noah, during the building of the ark, in which a few, that is, eight lives, were saved through water.”
What are the spirits in prison and where are they?
Enochic Watchers in a heavenly prison
Read 1 Cor 3:11-15. For what concept of the afterlife was this text influential?
Purgatory
I reckon that this expression, where God is said to be all in all (1 Cor. 15:28), also means that he is all in each individual person. And he will be all in each individual in such a way that everything which the rational mind, when cleansed from all the dregs of vice and utterly swept clean of every cloud of wickedness, can sense of understand or think will be all God
Origen
What book describes resurrection as ‘shining like the stars’
Daniel
T or F
Jews and Christians were not the only ancient peoples to conceptualize judgement as a balancing of the scales.
False
For Augustine, is pain felt primarily in the body or in the soul?
soul
To say that, on the one hand, God is infinitely good, perfectly just, and inexhaustibly loving, and that, on the other, he has created a world under such terms as oblige him either to impose, or to permit the imposition of, eternal misery on finite rational beings, is simply to embrace a complete contradiction.
Hart
What gospel suggests that Gehenna destroys both body and soul?
Matthew
What are the two traditional numbers for the layers of heaven?
3 or 7
What are two groups of people that early Christians thought Jesus went to Hell for three days in order to release?
Patriarchs
Israel
Gentiles
Everyone
Both justice and mercy were not to be revealed in all because, if all were to remain in the punishments of a just condemnation, merciful grace would appear in none and, on the other hand, if all were to be transferred from darkness to light, in no one would be revealed the truth that retribution was due.
Augustine