Evil that is brought about by natural destruction like earthquakes, floods, & diseases.
What is Natural Evil?
100
The KoG is open to what group of people.
What is everyone?
100
Aramaic word Jesus used to address God
What is Abba?
100
"...the ones who hear the word and accept it and bear fruit thirty and sixty and a hundredfold."
What is the Parable of the Sower?
200
Word meaning pupil or student.
What is Disciple?
200
Evil that is brought about by sin (i.e. through humanity)
What is moral evil?
200
The two different types of relationships one must have in the KoG.
What are Vertical and Horizontal dimensions?
200
Greek word meaning conversion.
What is Metanoia?
200
"For there is nothing hidden except to be made visible; nothing is secret except to come to light."
What is the Parable of the Lamp?
300
Rabbis used this to teach in synagogues.
What is the Torah?
300
A freely chosen action regarding the refusal to love or receive love from God, self, or others.
What is Personal Sin?
300
The eschatological reversal is the reality of the first being made last and the last made first speaks to this group of people.
What are the Destitute Poor?
300
Two issues common in Jesus’ day that made loving others difficult.
What are Nationalism and Legalism?
300
"...it springs up and becomes the largest of plants and puts forth large branches, so that the birds of the sky can dwell in its shade."
What is the Parable of the Mustard Seed?
400
Profession of Jesus' first disciples.
What are Fishermen?
400
The historic rupture between God and humanity, the human tendency to sin and the reason for sin in the world.
What is Original Sin?
400
Restored their humanity and healed the broken social and religious relationships that kept them from table fellowship and prevented them from going to Temple.
What is Sick and Crippled?
400
The name for the problem of why there is evil in the world when God is infinitely good and powerful.
What is Theodicy?
400
"Who then is this whom even wind and sea obey?"
What is The Calming of a Storm at Sea?
500
Jesus used these to illustrate the KoG, not his own authority.
What are Parables and Miracles?
500
The evil that affects all people simply because we live in community with one another. It is reflected in the isolation, alienation, loneliness, and injustice of the world. (war, poverty, destruction of the Envt.)
What is Social Sin?
500
The basileia of Jesus is also promised to these people whose social predicament has rendered them outsiders and unclean.
What are Tax Collectors, Sinners and Prostitutes?
500
Greek phrase meaning Reign of God.
What is Basileia tau Theou?
500
"Lord even the dogs under the table eat the children's scraps."