God's Word & God's World
The book of the Bible wherein some Christians claim God suggests we can send a message using electricity.
What is the book of Job?
The term used to refer to reading one's own views into the text of Scripture.
What is eisegesis?
What obedience to Christ helps to demonstrate.
What is the genuineness of a disciple?
(Matt. 7:15-20; John 8:31; 14:15; cf. James 2:14-26)
What Paul means when he says the resurrection body will be a "spiritual" body.
What is a body that is Spirit-filled and/or spiritually minded and/or Christ-like?
(e.g., 1 Cor. 15:46-49)
The biggest movement in history with the greatest value-impact on civilization.
What is the Christian movement?
The names of the two rival views which Galileo Galilei is known for addressing concerning the relationship between the earth and the sun.
(100 points each)
What are (1) geocentrism and (2) heliocentrism?
The literary device used when two authors are telling the same story but are each focusing on different details.
What is literary spotlighting?
The two ways in which Jesus fulfilled the Old Testament scriptures.
(100 points each)
What are (1) prophetic fulfillment and (2) typological fulfillment?
The name which theologians often use to refer to life in Heaven as it is at the present time.
What is the intermediate state?
The two ways in which Christianity radically differs from other religions/worldviews.
(100 points each)
What are (1) a radically pessimistic view of humanity (i.e., sinful nature) and (2) a radically optimistic view of God's grace (i.e., salvation)?
The one proposed scientific fact in the Bible that most Christian scholars agree might be indicative of the divine inspiration of Scripture.
What is the universe having a beginning?
(Gen. 1:1)
The three languages used for the sign above Jesus' head on the cross.
(100 points each)
What are Hebrew, Greek, and Latin?
(John 19:20)
The three categories of explanation for the Star of Bethlehem.
(100 points each)
What are (1) supernatural explanations, (2) natural explanations, and (3) astrological explanations?
The three main views on the nature and duration of Hell.
(100 points each)
What are (1) eternal conscious torment, (2) annihilationism/conditional immortality, and (3) temporary purification (universalism)?
Three modern problems in the world that Christianity directly addresses.
(100 points each)
What are (1) dehumanization, (2) medically-sanctioned death, and (3) redefining identity and relationship?
The four positions on the relationship between science and Scripture.
(100 points each)
What are (1) conflict, (2) non-overlapping magisteria, (3) complementarianism, and (4) concordism?
The four entities to which the words translated "God"/"god" might refer in Scripture.
(100 points each)
What are (1) Yahweh, (2) human constructs (i.e., idols), (3) human judges/rulers, and (4) fallen angels/demons?
(e.g., Exod. 32; Lev. 17:7; Deut. 32:16-17; Ps. 82:6; John 10:34-36)
The sense in which Jesus taught that the Father is greater than the incarnate Christ.
What is a sender-messenger relationship?
(John 14:28; cf. 13:16; 15:20)
A Greek word that can refer to a disembodied spirit but most often refers to the whole person.
What is psuche?
Four mistakes people make in misreading the Bible.
(100 points each; name any four)
What are:
(1) Assuming that the Unexplained Is Not Explainable.
(2) Presuming the Bible Guilty Until Proven Innocent.
(3) Confusing Our Fallible Interpretations with God’s Infallible Revelation.
(4) Failing to Understand the Context of the Passage.
(5) Neglecting to Interpret Difficult Passages in the Light of Clear Ones.
(6) Basing a Teaching on an Obscure Passage.
(7) Forgetting that the Bible Is a Human Book with Human Characteristics.
(8) Assuming that a Partial Report is a False Report.
(9) Demanding that NT Citations of the OT Always Be Exact Quotations.
(10) Assuming that Divergent Accounts Are False Ones.
(11) Presuming that the Bible Approves of All it Records.
(12) Forgetting that the Bible Uses Non-Technical, Everyday Language.
(13) Assuming that Rounds Numbers Are False.
(14) Neglecting to Note that the Bible Uses Different Literary Devices.
(15) Forgetting that Only the Original Text, Not Every Copy of Scripture, Is without Error.
(16) Confusing General Statements with Universal Ones.
(17) Forgetting that Later Revelation Supersedes Previous Revelation.
The view that says that science and Scripture occasionally overlap in subject matter and are consistent with one another when they do so.
What is concordism?
The term which C. S. Lewis coined to refer to the belief that the ideas, beliefs, and practices of the past are inherently inferior to those of the present simply because they are older.
What is chronological snobbery?
The five things Jesus said or did in the resurrection narratives that indicate that his resurrection body was of a physical nature.
(100 points each)
What are (1) keeping Mary from clinging to him, (2) letting the disciples touch his wounds, (3) holding physical objects, (4) serving/eating food, and (5) saying that he had flesh and bones?
The five basic views on the destiny of the unevangelized.
(100 points each)
What are (1) restrictivism, (2) universal opportunity before death, (3) inclusivism, (4) post-mortem evangelism, and (5) universalism?
The other religions to which Christianity was compared with respect to the underlying problem facing humanity and the proposed solution to the problem.
(100 points each)
What are (1) Judaism, (2) Islam, (3) Confucianism, (4) Buddhism, and (5) Hinduism?