a helping ministry that uses reasoning to provide answers to people who are seeking the truth about God
apologetics
What does truth always align with?
a. our beliefs
b. culture
c. reality
d. our worldview
C
Truth is fixed, independent, exclusive, and discovered.
True
What is one thing that makes up a sound worldview?
Gives answers that work well together to life’s most important questions.
Correctly describes reality.
a set of propositions (thoughts or statements) that has a one-to-one correspondence with reality
truth
God intentionally created all humans to have purpose. That ultimate purpose is:
a. to get to God by being good.
b. to live in a loving relationship with God forever.
c. to live successful, productive lives.
d. to know we have immeasurable worth.
B
The authors of the Bible were from different backgrounds, cultures, places, and time periods but agreed on controversial truths.
True
What does Jesus’ fulfillment of the Old Testament prophecies reveal?
1.Jesus was the Messiah prophesied about in the Old Testament
2.The Old Testament authors could never have predicted such accurate details without divine inspiration
3.All of Scripture is cohesive because it is inspired by God
without error or fault in its teachings, in its original written form
inerrant
A framework for the history and future of the world is:
a. Creation, Fall, Renewal, and Restoration.
b. Creation, Fall, and Restoration.
c. Creation, Fall, and Redemption.
d. Creation, Fall, Redemption, and Restoration.
D
The functional view bases personhood on your physical abilities. The Christian view bases personhood on whether you are saved.
False (It is based on who you are, made in God’s image)
The same books Jesus considered ______________ , ______________ , and ______________ make up our Old Testament today.
historical, reliable, authoritative
the first mention of God’s plan to save the world through Jesus Christ
First Gospel
Which law of logic is defined in this way: “If a statement/proposition is true, then it is true”?
a. law of identity
b. law of the excluded middle
c. law of non-contradiction
d. none of the above
A
We can find the historical thread of the Old Testament in 19 of its books
False (11)
One of the principles of inclusion the early church used to recognize a book as part of the canon was whether it:
told the truth about God.
an immaterial substance that contains consciousness and animates the body
soul
Why do some complementary accounts in biblical narratives appear to be contradictory at first glance?
a. authors emphasized different aspects of the events b. authors were more or less specific than others
c. authors were selective, only recording key information
d. all of the above
D
The law of the excluded middle is defined as “statements cannot be both true and false at the same time, same place, and same way”
False (law of non-contradiction)
We have good reason to believe the Old Testament original autographs have been preserved and transmitted accurately because:
Through textual criticism, scholars are able to reconstruct the original autographs by comparing the many copies of manuscripts that we have