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Chapter 1 Self Quiz
What Is the New Testament? The Early Christians and Their Literature
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Revelation is an example of a Christian apocalypse.
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The earliest surviving Christian literature is written in Hebrew.
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According to some Gnostic Christians, the Old Testament God was evil.
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Which early Christian group believed in two Gods: the just God of the Old Testament and the merciful God of Jesus?
Gnostics
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Proto-orthodox Christians
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Jewish-Christian adoptionists
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Marcionites
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What does the term "heresy" mean?
Evil
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To choose
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To reject
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To agree with
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The term "canon" means:
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Heretical
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Authoritative
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Ruler
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What does the term "gnosis" mean?
Knowledge
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Salvation
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Savior
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Choice
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Which of the following groups thought it was blasphemy to call Jesus God?
Marcionites
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Gnostics
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Jewish-Christian adoptionists
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Proto-orthodox Christians
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The Marcionites believed Jesus came to save people from
Sin
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The Jewish God
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Rome
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Paul
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The Nag Hammadi Library was written in what language?
Coptic
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Hebrew
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Aramaic
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Greek
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The word "epistle" means:
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Letter
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Conversation
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Right choice
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At the end of what century did Christians begin to call Jesus' words Scripture?
The first century B.C.E.
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The first century C.E.
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The second century C.E.
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The fifth century C.E.
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In what year did Athanasius name the current twenty-seven books of the New Testament as authoritative?
150 C.E.
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288 C.E.
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367 C.E.
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432 C.E.
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