Early Christian Texts: Hebrews, James, Jude, 1-2 Peter, and 1-3 John, Quizzes of Christianity

Download Early Christian Texts: Hebrews, James, Jude, 1-2 Peter, and 1-3 John and more Quizzes Christianity in PDF only on Docsity! TERM 1 Hebrews DEFINITION 1 Long ago God spoke to our ancestors in many and various ways by the prophets, but in these last days he has spoken to us by a Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom he also created the worlds. He is the reflection of Gods glory and the exact imprint of Gods very being, and he sustains all things by his powerful word. TERM 2 Hebrews DEFINITION 2 Since, then, we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast to our confession. For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who in every respect has been tested as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore approach the throne of grace with boldness, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need TERM 3 Hebrews DEFINITION 3 For it was fitting that we should have such a high priest, holy, blameless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and exalted above the heavens. Unlike the other high priests, he has no need to offer sacrifices day after day, first for his own sins, and then for those of the people; this he did once for all when he offered himself. TERM 4 Hebrews DEFINITION 4 1. Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight and the sin that clings so closely, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus the pioneer and perfecter of our faith, who for the sake of the joy that was set before him endured the cross, disregarding its shame, and has taken his seat at the right hand of the throne of God. TERM 5 James DEFINITION 5 My brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of any kind, consider it nothing but joy, because you know that the testing of your faith produces endurance; and let endurance have its full effect, so that you may be mature and complete, lacking in nothing. If any of you is lacking in wisdom, ask God, who gives to all generously and ungrudgingly, and it will be given you. TERM 6 James DEFINITION 6 What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if you say you have faith but do not have works? Can faith save you? If a brother or sister is naked and lacks daily food, and one of you says to them, Go in peace; keep warm and eat your fill, and yet you do not supply their bodily needs, what is the good of that? So faith by itself, if it has no works, is dead. TERM 7 James DEFINITION 7 Who is wise and understanding among you? Show by your good life that your works are done with gentleness born of wisdom. TERM 8 James DEFINITION 8 Come now, you rich people, weep and wail for the miseries that are coming to you. Your riches have rotted, and your clothes are moth-eaten. Your gold and silver have rusted, and their rust will be evidence against you, and it will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up treasure for the last days. Listen! The wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts. You have lived on the earth in luxury and in pleasure; you have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter. You have condemned and murdered the righteous one, who does not resist you. TERM 9 Jude DEFINITION 9 1. Beloved, while eagerly preparing to write to you about the salvation we share, I find it necessary to write and appeal to you to contend for the faith that was once for all entrusted to the saints. For certain intruders have stolen in among you, people who long ago were designated for this condemnation as ungodly, who pervert the grace of our God into licentiousness and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ. TERM 10 Jude DEFINITION 10 1. But you, beloved, must remember the predictions of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ; for they said to you, In the last time there will be scoffers, indulging in their own ungodly lusts. It is these worldly people, devoid of the Spirit, who are causing divisions. But you, beloved, build yourselves up on your most holy faith; pray in the Holy Spirit; keep yourselves in the love of God; look forward to the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that leads to eternal life. TERM 21 2 John DEFINITION 21 1. The elder to the elect lady and her children, whom I love in the truth, and not only I but also all who know the truth, because of the truth that abides in us and will be with us forever: Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us from God the Father and from Jesus Christ, the Fathers Son, in truth and love. TERM 22 2 John DEFINITION 22 1. Many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who do not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh; any such person is the deceiver and the antichrist! Be on your guard, so that you do not lose what we have worked for, but may receive a full reward. TERM 23 1 John DEFINITION 23 1. This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light and in him there is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with him while we are walking in darkness, we lie and do not do what is true; but if we walk in the light as he himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin. TERM 24 1 John DEFINITION 24 1. How does Gods love abide in anyone who has the worlds goods and sees a brother or sister in need and yet refused to help? Little children, let us love, not in word or speech, but in truth and action. TERM 25 1 John DEFINITION 25 1. Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love. Gods love was revealed among us in this way: God sent his only Son into the world so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins. Beloved, since God loved us so much, we also ought to love one another. TERM 26 1 John DEFINITION 26 1. We love because he first loved us. Those who say, I love God, and hate their brothers and sisters, are liars; for those who do not love a brother or sister whom they have seen, cannot love God whom they have not seen. The commandment we have from him is this: those who love God must love their brothers and sisters also. TERM 27 Revelation DEFINITION 27 1. : The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show his servants what must soon take place; he made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who testified to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. TERM 28 Revelation DEFINITION 28 1. : I was in the spirit on the Lords day, and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet saying, Write in a book what you see and send it to the seven churches, to Ephesus, to Smyrna, to Pergamum, to Thyatira, to Sardis, to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea. TERM 29 Revelation DEFINITION 29 1. The woman was clothed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and jewels and pearls, holding in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of her fornication; and on her forehead was written a name, a mystery: Babylon the great, mother of whores and of earths abominations. And I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of the saints and the blood of witnesses to Jesus. TERM 30 Revelation DEFINITION 30 1. Then I saw heaven opened, and there was a white horse! Its rider is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he judges and makes war. His eyes are like a flame of fire, and on his head are many diadems; and he has a name inscribed that no one knows but himself. He is clothed in a robe dipped in blood, and his name is called The Word of God. TERM 31 Hebrews DEFINITION 31 62-68 AD TERM 32 Hebrews DEFINITION 32 Forced with a crisis that might result in persecution and martyrdom in Rome (time of Nero), a group of Jewish Christians has separated itself from the larger Christian church and may be considering a return to Judaism TERM 33 Hebrews DEFINITION 33 an unknown but likely Jewish Christian outside of Rome writes a sermon and sends it to a group of Jewish Christians facing persecution in Rome TERM 34 Hebrews DEFINITION 34 Purposes:encourage Jewish Christians about the promises of God in their time of crisisexhort Jewish Christians to continued faith in Jesus Christ in their time of crisis TERM 35 James DEFINITION 35 50-60 AD TERM 46 1 Peter DEFINITION 46 Purposes:encourage the Jewish Christians in the face of possible persecution and sufferingcall the Jewish Christians to remain faithful, to continue to trusting and following Jesus Christ TERM 47 2 Peter DEFINITION 47 64-68 AD, put in final form before 100 AD TERM 48 2 Peter DEFINITION 48 knowing that his death is likely near, and aware that false teachers are active in some Christian churches, likely Jewish Christian churches, the apostle Peter desires to give final instructions to these churches, and Peter's testimony is later in a general, composite letter to the churches TERM 49 2 Peter DEFINITION 49 the apostle Peter writes his testimony but this general, composite letter is very possibly put into final form later TERM 50 2 Peter DEFINITION 50 Purposes:present the final testimony and/or witness of the apostle Peter to the churchescombat false teachers by defending the apostolic teaching and traditions of Peter and Paulencourage and exhort Christians to remain faithful to the apostolic teaching and traditions of Peter and Paul TERM 51 3 John, 2 John, and 1 John DEFINITION 51 80-100 AD TERM 52 3 John DEFINITION 52 In and around Ephesus, a church leader named Diotrephes has disrupted the unity of the churches by attacking John the Elder's authority and by refusing to offer hospitality to Christian missionaries who were likely associated with John TERM 53 3 John DEFINITION 53 John the Elder writes a personal letter to Gaius, a leader in the church in and around Ephesus, who has been offering hospitality to Christian missionaries TERM 54 3 John DEFINITION 54 Purposes:warn Gaius about following the negative example of Diotrephes and his refusal of hospitalityencourage Gaius to show hospitality to Demetrius, likely the missionary headed his way TERM 55 2 John DEFINITION 55 John the Elder learns that Docetists, who deny the humanity of Jesus, seem to be disrupting a church or churches, likely in and around Ephesus, and John plans to visit the churches soon and deal more fully with the problem TERM 56 2 John DEFINITION 56 John the Elder writes a short letter tothe churches in and around Ephesus TERM 57 2 John DEFINITION 57 Purposes:give brief instructions on how to combat the Docetistshold the churches over until he is able to visit and address the problems in person TERM 58 1 John DEFINITION 58 The author of this letter, possibly the beloved disciple of Jesus, has learned that some Docetists, who deny the humanity of Jesus, have caused schism and a split in the churches in and around Ephesus TERM 59 1 John DEFINITION 59 the author writes this longer, general, pastoral sermon to the churches in and around Ephesus TERM 60 1 John DEFINITION 60 Purposes:give more detailed instructions on how to combat the Docetistsencourage and exhort the Christian churches to maintain community and love one another TERM 71 false DEFINITION 71 most scholars think that the author of James likely drew from some of the same "Jesus sayings" as the gospel of Markt or f TERM 72 true DEFINITION 72 in writing about the relationship between "faith" and "works", James is dealing with the belief and behavior of those who are already Christians and not with how one becomes a Christiant or f TERM 73 false DEFINITION 73 according to witherington, the letter of Jude is probably written by Judas Iscariot, who was the brother of Jesus and jamest or f TERM 74 true DEFINITION 74 some scholars think that Jude may be the earliest document in the New Testament and that it was written by a Jewish author to a largely Jewish audience, as the author draws from both the Jewish scriptures/OT and apocryphal Jewish sourcest or f TERM 75 true DEFINITION 75 according to witherington, historical study of the new Testament has done a disservice to Jewish Christianity because many of the documents in the New Testament were originally addressed to groups that were largely composed of Jewish Christianst or f TERM 76 false DEFINITION 76 most scholars think that the apostle Peter contributed all or portions of the writing of 1 and 2 Peter, both of which were likely sent to largely Gentile Christians in and around Romet or f TERM 77 true DEFINITION 77 as a general letter, 1 Peter was sent largely to Hellenized Jewish Christians in Asia Minor, and it was likely written in Rome by the apostle Peter prior to his martyrdom sometime in the mid 60st or f TERM 78 Greeks DEFINITION 78 when we read that some Jewish Christian groups around the Mediterranean in the 1st century were Hellenized, we mean that they were variously influenced by the history, language, and culture of which ancient people TERM 79 true DEFINITION 79 according to witherington, 2 Peter is one of the latest New Testament documents written and as a composite letter, it contains testimony from the apostle Peter, includes a large section of Jude, and it reflects a knowledge of Paul's letterst or f TERM 80 false DEFINITION 80 according to witherington, 1-2-3 John are related to the gospel of John, and all four were likely written and/or composed by the beloved disciple, who he thinks was Lazarust or f TERM 81 true DEFINITION 81 the sermon of 1 John is the longest of the catholic or general letters, 2-3 John are the shortest documents in the New Testament, and all three were likely written between 80-100 Ad for Jewish Christian communities in and around Ephesust or f TERM 82 true DEFINITION 82 while 2-3 John are examples of 1st century letters, in form 1 John is more of a homily or sermon - encouraging love in a community that has been wounded and fractured by the presence and influence of false teachers/teachingt or f TERM 83 false, it was a personal letter to Gaius DEFINITION 83 as a general, circular letter, 3 John was written to a wide variety of largely Jewish Christian communities in and around Ephesus, primarily to encourage and exhort them to practice hospitality for Christian missionariest or f TERM 84 true DEFINITION 84 according to witherington, the book of revelation was likely written in the last decade of the 1st century and, so far as interpretation, whatever the text meant for those late 1st century Christians is also what it means for followers of Jesus todayt or f