Ancient Religion
History tells us that the earliest human beings worshipped many gods, also called this.
Polytheism
God may have revealed who he was in whispers through the prophets, judges, dreams and visions, but this was God's ultimate and most full revelation of himself.
Jesus Christ
This saint wrote 1/3 of the New Testament.
Saint Paul
The idea that the teachings of Christ and his Holy Apostles is preserved for the church in the scripture, and then these teachings were also delivered or handed down to Christ’s church.
Sacred Tradition
Stories that reveal how the ancients viewed the Divine, god, or the Sacred.
Stories that explain the Cosmos
Stories that validate the existing Social Order
Stories that guided the Ancients through life
Mythology
Archeologists argue that Prehistoric humans were interested in the divine and supernatural; the evidence can be seen in these works.
Cave Paintings
This is the authority for the Church concerning who God is, what God has done and said, and what God wants from us.
This is how we know what Jesus said and did.
The Bible or Holy Scriptures
To make things easier, people cataloged the Bible so we can find things faster. This is divided into these three categories.
Book, Chapter, Verse
Concise statements of faith that show exactly what a group of Christians might believe about various subjects or practices.
Creeds and Confessions
Ancient religions worshipped in various ways and in every culture the world has ever produced. Most often the gods were worshipped through this.
Animal Sacrifice
Most powerful storm and air god worshipped by the Akkadians, Babylonians, Assyrians, and Hurrians. It is this god, according to Gilgamesh, that decided to destroy all humans with a flood.
Enlil
The word "bible" comes from Greek, literally meaning this.
books, or library
For Roman Catholics, the voice of the unified tradition of the church is called this. This is the input and arguments and collected voice of the Theologians, Doctors and Clergy of the Church since the beginning.
The Magisterium
This speaks to those teachings in the church that are so important, that if you disagree – you cannot call yourself a Christian.
Dogma
A term of mockery used first by early Christians to describe what they believed was an inferior religion and polytheistic worship.
Pagan
In Gilgamesh, the man "Utnapishtim" is the same (or equivalent) to what character in the Bible?
Noah
These extra books are debated over in the church and are called this; literally meaning hidden, concealed, secret, obscure, or unknown.
Apocrypha
This English King broke away from the Roman Catholic Church when he wanted his marriage annulled. He started the Anglican Church as a result.
King Henry the VIII
This speaks of those teachings in the church that are important, but not to the extent that if you disagree, you’re not a Christian.
Doctrine
We can look around creation, the universe, or the cosmos and get the sense that something or someone greater than us had to have made this the world. This is known as this.
General Revelation
While not all Christians agree on Inerrancy or the idea that the Bible is completely free from errors, all Christians do however believe in this - the idea that the authors of the Bible were moved or influenced by God to write the things they did.
Inspiration
Name all four major types of Christians we discussed in class.
Roman Catholic
Eastern Orthodox
Protestant
Anglican (Episcopalian)
This is the name that scholars call the various actual original writing of the Bible.
Original Autographs
Although we can know that a god exists or that something must have created the universe, we need this to tell us who that god is.
Special Revelation