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
Three ideas rejected by Jesus concerning the Kingdom of God.
What are political reign, violence and boundaries?
200
Word meaning pupil or student.
What is a 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 (God) and horizontal (humans)?
200
Greek word meaning conversion.
What is Metanoia?
200
Found only in the Gospel of Luke, this parable demonstrates the true meaning of the commandment to love.
What is the parable of the Good Samaritan?
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 is the destitute poor?
300
Two issues common in Jesus’ day that made loving others difficult.
What are nationalism and legalism?
300
Apostle comes from the Greek phrase meaning...
What is "to send forth"
400
Profession of Jesus' first disciples.
What is 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 the 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
Ways in which Jesus exercised his claim to divine authority.
What are:
1. Calling God "Father", 2. Going beyond the Law, 3. Forgiving sins, 4. Ridding the Temple of injustices.
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 (communal) sin?
500
The basileia of Jesus is also promised to these people whose social predicament has rendered them outsiders and unclean.
What are the tax collectors, prostitutes and sinners?
500
Greek phrase meaning Reign of God.
What is Basileia tau Theou?
500
According to the synoptic Gospels, these were the first disciples called by Jesus.