Parables
In this parable, a Samaritan helps a wounded man after a priest and Levite pass by.
What is the good Samaritan?
This is the process of interpreting and understanding a text in the context of history, especially the Bible.
What is hermaneutics?
Matthew, Mark, Luke and John
What are the Gospels?
A common argument against Christianity holds that if God embodies two characteristics how can evil and suffering exist?
What is good and all-powerful?
This describes something that is true or real regardless of personal opinion, feeling, or preference.
What is objectivity?
In this parable, seed falls on a path, rocky ground, thorns, and good soil.
What is the parable of the sower (or 4 soils)?
Written between roughly 2000 and 3200 years ago.
When were the books of the Bible written?
The woman all Gospels agree visited Jesus' empty tomb.
Whoe was Mary Magdalene?
If the universe's existance was the length of an arm, these have only existed the length of the tip of a finger nail.
What are humans?
Saying “cookies and cream ice cream tastes better than mint chocolate chip” is an example of this kind of claim.
What is a subjective claim?
This is the main message of the prodigal son parable, where a younger son wastes his inheritance, returns home, and is welcomed by his father.
What is the message of grace and forgiveness?
This word can describe a sacred story that explains meaning, purpose, and identity, not necessarily a “false story” that needs to be "busted."
What is a myth?
Women's testimony was not considered credible for court testimony during Jesus' time.
Why was it notable that the Gospels agree that it was women who discovered the empty tomb?
This describes something that cannot be done, even by an all-powerful God, because it contains a contradiction — such as something being both entirely a circle and entirely a square at the same time.
What is a logical impossibility?
Putting your hand on a hot stove shows this, because the burn happens whether or not you believe the stove is hot.
What is that the physical world is objectively real?
This is the message Jesus is delivering in the Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard, when workers hired at different times all receive the same daily wage.
What is it is never too late to believe Jesus' message?
God rested on this day.
What did He do on the 7th day of creation?
Gospel written or inspired by one of Jesus' disciples who had previously been a hated tax collector. This author's focus was to present Jesus as the Messiah and King, fulfilling Old Testament prophecy.
What was Matthew?
This is what God has given us because a world with loving relationships must also allow the possibility of evil.
What is free will?
Christians argue that our moral experience points to this, because we recognize some actions as truly wrong, not just a function of evolution...cruelty, abuse, murder, slavery.
What is that morality is objectively real?
In this parable, a tiny seed grows into a large plant where birds can rest.
What is parable of the mustard seed?
Estimated to be 44% narrative, 33% poetry, and 23% prose discourse, including laws, sermons, letters, and essays.
What are the percentages of the Bible’s literary styles?
The only Gospel that was written by a Gentile. An educated physician who was a careful researcher who also wrote Acts. His focus was on Jesus' outreach to the outcasts in society.
Who was Luke?
This Christian belief about why God sent his son for us that demonstrates that suffering and death are not our ultimate destiny.
What is God seeks an eternal relationship with us?
The “moral argument” says that objective moral values and duties are best explained by this.
What is God?