The Dead Sea has so much ____ and mineral sediment that fish can't survive and people float easily.
What is salt?
100
Mount Vesuvius is a ____.
What is a volcano?
100
The name of the two men who were martyred on February 14th, A.D. 269
What is Valentine?
100
A statement of beliefs. Comes from the Latin word “credo” meaning “I believe”.
What is a creed?
100
According to the book of Acts, I fell upon the Gentiles at Pentecost.
What is the Holy Spirit?
200
Discovered the scared documents in a cave near the Dead Sea.
Who is a Bedouin shepherd boy?
200
Occurred a few years before the eruption.
What is an earthquake?
200
The Jewish Revolt that Bar-Kokhba led and ultimately died in.
What is the Second Jewish Revolt?
200
The group who wrote the Apostles' Creed.
Who are Christians?
200
I was a devout Jew, a Pharisee, and a persecutor of early Christians before God spoke to me.
Who is Saul/Paul?
300
The only part of the Old Testament not included in the Dead Sea Scrolls.
What is the Book of Esther?
300
The Roman city where Mt. Vesuvius erupted.
What is Pompeii?
300
What Bar-Kokhba, the "Prince of Israel" claimed to be.
What is the Messiah?
300
At least one reason the early Christians wrote the Apostles' Creed.
What is to be used at baptisms, to teach other about Christianity, to remind Christians of what they were fighting/dying for, and to help bring churches together?
300
I was an evil emperor of Rome.
Who is Nero?
400
A strict Jewish group who most likely wrote the scrolls.
Who are the Essenes?
400
People looked like they were frozen in time because of the large amount of ___that fell and the absence of hot lava.
What is ash?
400
The pagan celebration that took place on February 15th during this time period.
What is the Roman festival of love (the feast day was known as Lupercalia)?
400
How long ago the Apostles' Creed was written.
What is about 2,000 years (only 100 or more years after Jesus taught these things to His followers)?
400
I observed and recorded the destruction of the Temple in the First Jewish Revolt?
Who is Josephus?
500
The desert spot where they found a total of 800 writings. (situated near the limestone cliffs and low-lying fossil bed of the Dead Sea)
What is Qumran?
500
The country where Pompeii is located.
What is Italy?
500
A mythical "god of love" that supposedly shot arrows to make people fall in love.
What is cupid?
500
“I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth; and in Jesus Christ his ___ Son, our Lord.”
What is "only"?
500
At Antioch, I was commissioned with Paul as one of the first missionaries.