The Comforter
Key Principles for Bible Reading
Paul's Letter to the Galatians
The Crazy-Sounding Parts of Scripture
Bible Bowl
100

Like the Holy Spirit, we know not where this comes from, but we can hear and feel it (John 3)

What is the wind?

100

The number of Key Principles we learned in this series.

What is four?

100

The word that fills in these blanks from Galatians 3:28 - "There is ______ Jew nor Gentile, _____ slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. 

What is "neither"?

100

The KJV translation of the Bible includes apparent references to this mythical creature (which, upon further investigation, isn't really what the biblical authors wanted us to think of). 

What is a unicorn?

100
Jesus Christ is referred to as this in John 1:1.

What is the Word?

200

The Spirit drove Jesus here after he was baptized by John.

What is the wilderness?

200

This Key Principle is all about the big picture of the entire Bible.

What is "All the Bible Points to Jesus"?

200

In Galatians 2:20, Paul says that he has been this with Christ, and that Christ now lives in him.

What is "crucified"?

200

What Martin Luther King, Jr. once said that the "moral arc of the universe" bends toward.

What is justice?

200

According to the promise in Joel 2:28-30, this is who can receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Who is everyone?

300

The space between the three figures in Rublev's fifteenth-century painting forms this.

What is a chalice?

300

This Key Principle is all about finding the context of every Bible verse we come across.

What is "Never Read a Bible Verse"?

300

The modern-day name for the first-century region known as Galatia.

What is Turkey?

300
The image we used to answer the question "Aren't all religions basically the same?"

What is a mountain/mountain range/journey?

300

These are the Hebrew words for "formless" and "void" in Genesis 1.

What are "tohu" and "bohu"?

400

The Holy Spirit, or Comforter, is also known as the third of these within the Trinity.

What is a person?

400

This Key Principle reminds us that we are not the original recipients of the books in the Bible.

What is "The Bible was Written for Us, Not to Us"?

400

When talking about freedom in Christ in Galatians 4:21-31, Paul references this Old Testament story from Genesis 21.

What is the story of Sarah/Hagar or Isaac/Ishmael?

400

The fact that in Jesus, God comes to us - and not the other way around.

What makes the Christian faith distinct?

400

The person to whom God first revealed his name in Exodus 34:6-7, saying, "The Lord, the Lord, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness, maintaining love to thousands, and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin..."

Who is Moses?

500

The number of weeks after Passover that Pentecost occurs.

What is seven?

500

This Key Principle encourages us to understand the genre of each book in the Bible.

What is "The Bible is a Library, Not a Book"?

500

The Greek phrase in Galatians 2:20 that can mean "faith in Christ" or "the faithfulness of Christ".

What is pistis Christou?

500

The name of the runaway slave about whom Paul wrote to Philemon, pleading with him to free him and treat him as a brother upon his return.

Who is Onesimus?

500
The people group who took the Israelites into exile, which the Israelites lamented in Psalm 137 by saying, "By the rivers of ______, where we sat down, and there we wept when we remembered Zion".

Who are the Babylonians?

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