Sainthood
What are the 4 steps to sainthood?
Servant of God, Venerable, Blesses, and Saint
How many books are in the New Testament?
27
Pauls Epistles and Mark's Gospel
Who are God-Fearers?
People who have come up to the doorway maybe observing without fully converting.
What does it mean to say the Bible is inerrant?
The parts of the Bible that are about our salvation are dependable, without error, and trustworthy.
How does a person become a "Servant of God"?
Title given when a persons cause for sainthood is opened by the church.
What is the only Gospel that is NOT a synoptic gospel?
The Gospel of John
Gospels, Acts of the Apostles, Letters, Catholic Epistles and Book of Revelation.
Who are the Gnostics?
A group of early Christian heresies that thought that salvation resets on secret knowledge
What is the deffinition of Incarnation?
The dogma that God's essential son assumed a human nature and became man in Jesus Christ to save us from our sins "Taking on human Flesh"
How does a person become "Venerable"?
Title given after an in depth investigation of the persons life reveals heroic virtue.
What is the author of John referred to as in the Gospel of John
The Beloved Disciple
What is not mentioned in the New Testament?
3rd letters of John doesn't explicitly mention Jesus.
What about Jewish life was attractive to the Gentiles?
Monotheism, antiquity, moral life, and the faithful God who interacted with human affairs.
How is a miracle determined?
the healing cannot be explained by the highest form of scientific knowledge, and has to have lasting effects and is immediate.
How does a person become "Blessed"?
Title given after a miracle occurring through the persons intercession is verified.
When were the earliest books of the New Testament written?
Approximately 66-70AD
What is the difference between a letter and an epistle?
A letter is written to one person, but an epistle is written to a large group of people.
Non-Jews
What is the pascal Mystery?
The saving love of God most fully revealed in the Life, passion, death, and resurrection of Jesus.
Title given after a sacred miracle is verified and the Pope declares person a saintly example.
What is the last book of the New Testament?
The Book of Revelation.
What were the 3 Synoptic Gospels?
Matthew, Mark, and Luke
What religion, or what beings, did most Greeks follow before turning to Judaism? And why did they leave their past religion.
Greek Gods, and They left them because of the monotheism and faithful God of Judaism.
How do we celebrate the Paschal Mystery?
Celebrated during mass during the Eucharist and during the Easter season.