Creeds
The number of creeds.
What is three?
A word used to describe the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, but that is not found in the Bible.
What is The Trinity?
The theory/belief that Jesus did not actually die.
What is the swoon theory?
Pastor Chris' four sources of truth.
What are Science/Reason, Past Experience, Scriptures/Religion and Culture/traditions?
The number of books in the Bible.
What is 66?
The number of sections/articles in the Apostles Creed.
What is three?
The one thing Pastor Sommer doesn't like about the Lutheran Study Bible.
What are the Roman Numerals in the front of the Bible?
The church season that immediately precedes the 12 days of Christmas,
What is Advent?
The type of "cause" that science cannot explain.
What is the motivational cause?
The language in which the New Testament was written.
What is Greek?
The three people about whom the three articles of the creed are written.
Who are the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
A divine intervention whereby God rules over creation apart from His current ordering of nature, restoring to His original intention.
What is a miracle?
The Christian belief that Jesus is the only way to heaven (or to be made right with God.)
What is the scandal of particularity?
The thing science cannot tell us (as opposed to what "is").
What is... what "should be?"
The approximate number of years over which the Bible was written.
What is approximately 1,600 years?
A way (1) to summarize the Bible (2) to unite the church, documenting shared beliefs common to all denominations, and (3) to document what the church does and does not believe.
What is a creed?
The definition of a parable.
What is an "earthly story with a heavenly meaning?"
The reason that the Romans posted guards at Jesus' tomb.
What is the fear that Jesus' body would be stolen.
Pastor Chris' definition of a religion says that religions answer these.
What are the big questions in life? (morals, origins, suffering, death, eternity)
The approximate number of Biblical authors.
What is 40?
The two most commonly recited creeds.
What are the Apostles and Nicene?
Pastor Sommer's two favorite definitions of forgiveness?
What are "to absorb relational debt" and "to remember without malice?"
The one question everyone has to answer for themselves about Jesus.
What is... what do you think happened to the body of Jesus?
The reason Pastor Chris says everyone is a person of "faith."
What is... none of us can prove what we believe (about God)?
The authors of the four biographies of Jesus.
Who are Matthew, Mark, Luke and John?