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This character dominates the second half of the Book of Acts.

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Paul

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The author of Acts concentrates so much on the missionary work of the apostle Paul because.....

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Paul's work in Gentile areas represents the transition of Christianity from a JEwish to a Hellenistic environment

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The apparent reason the eleven remaining apostles elect Matthias as a replacement for Judas Iscariot after his suicide is that...

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the number twelve represents the twelve tribes of Israel, so the apostles represented a kind of "new Israel"

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When the Holy Spirit fell upon the believers on the day of Pentecost in Acts 2, the Spirit's presence was indicated when the believers began to....

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speak in tongues

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Luke's name for the early Christian movement is...

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the Way

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Beginning in ACts 6, Luke distinguishes two different groups in the early jerusalem church: Aramaic-speaking jewish Christians and Greek-speaking Jewish Christians whom luke calls...

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Hellenists

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While he is on his way to arrest Christians in Damascus, __________ encounters the risen Christ in the form of a blinding light and heavenly voice.

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Paul

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Followers of "the Way" first received the name of Christians in the city of...

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Antioch in Syria

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When the apostle Paul and his associate Barnabas confronted Jewish Christians in a conference in Jerusalem, the issue of debated was...

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whether Gentiles could become Christians without being circumcised

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While in this city, Paul and Silas established the first christian church in Europe. While there, they were wrongfully flogged and imprisoned without a trial.

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Philippi

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Paul travels to Rome near the end of the Book of Acts because...

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as a Roman citizen, Paul has the right to stand trial before the Roman emperor.

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While in this city, Paul was politely invited by the city's intellectuals to give an address concerning his philosophy at a public forum called the Areopagus.

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Athens

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Acts portrays the development of early Christianity from _________ movement to a largely Gentile faith.

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a Jewish apocalyptic

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The Book of Acts was written about...

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90 CE

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In Ephesus, Paul competes with certain Jews to...

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heal the sick

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Which of the following is a biographical detail about Paul is mentioned in the Book of Acts but never by Paul in his own letters?

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Paul was born in the city of Tarsus

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Paul's letter to the _______ gives us valuable chronological details about Paul's trips to Jerusalem that help us date his career.

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Galatians

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One of the most important historical references in acts for dating the life fo the apostle Paul is...

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Paul's appearance before Galileo, the Roman governor of Greece, in Acts 18.

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The majority of scholars accept ________ of the thirteen Pauline letters in the New Testament as authentically written by the apostle.

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seven

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Scholars generally agree that __________ was the first of the Pauline letters to be written.

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1 Thessalonians

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The greeting that Paul customarily uses at the beginning of his letters is....

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"Grace and peace to you..."

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Of all the aspects of Jesus' life the apostle Paul speaks most often about Jesus'...

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death and resurrection

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In describing how Christ's work on the cross gives new life to the human race, Paul contracts Christ with the Hebrew Bible figure of...

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Adam

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Paul sometimes uses this metaphor in his letters to describe the entire believing community of Christians

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body of Christ

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Paul believed that sin is an infectious power that results in human

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death

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Paul stresses that God "justified" persons or declared them righteous based strictly upon their...

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faith in Jesus Christ

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What did Paul receive from God that helped him to not be "unduly elated" by the magnificence of the revelation he witnessed?

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a sharp pain in his side

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Who, later in history, agreed with Paul that faith in jesus alone is sufficient for salvation?

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Martin Luther

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In writing about "love", Paul concentrates on...

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cultivating love within the Christian community

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Paul's dominant concern in his early letters is the concept of...

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eschatology

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Thessalonica was the capital of the Roman province of...

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Macedonia

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In 1 Thessalonians, Paul encourages the Thessalonian believers respond to the nearness of the Parousia of Christ by...

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abstaining from sexual immorality

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When Paul first visited Corinth on his second missionary journey, he stayed for approximately...

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a year and a half

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In Paul's day, the city of Corinth was known for...

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its libertine lifestyle.

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The most important distinction that Paul makes in 1 Cor. 1-2 is between the concepts of...

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wisdom and foolishness

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the content of the oral gospel that Paul preached in the marketplaces, shops, and private homes of Thessalonica is known by the greek term

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kerygma

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Paul criticizes the Corinthians in 1 Corinthians because they will not excommunicate a church member who is guilty of...

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incest

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Paul's general principle for personal relationships in 1 Corinthians is that...

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married people should remain married; and single people should remain single

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Paul's position in 1 Corinthians on eating meat that had been given to "idols" is that...

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Christians have a right to eat the meat, but they should forego that right if it offends a fellow Christian.

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In 1 Cor. 11, Paul criticizes the Corinthians' observance of the Lord's Supper, claiming that...

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they had turned the Supper into a riotous drinking party.

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According to the viewpoint of the writer of 1 Timothy, the Genesis account implies that Eve is inferior to Adam because...

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she was formed after Adam

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The author of 1 Timothy's most damaging charge against Eve was her alleged susceptibility to deceit. The fallout of this charge was...

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that Eve's entire line, i.e. all women for all time, were to be excluded from positions of trust in the Christian community.

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Why was it necessary for Paul to insist that the ceremony of the Lord's Supper be decorously repeated in memory of Christ's death in the traditional manner that Jesus began it?

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because the Corinthians had turned the service into a riotous drinking party

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All spiritual gifts are partial reflections of divine reality and will be obsolete in the world to come, with the exception of...

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faith, hope, and love

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According to the "South Galatia" theory, the intended readers of Paul's letter to the Galatians may have lived in the cities of______, where Paul had already established churches.

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Iconium, Lystra, and Derbe

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Paul's opponents in Galatia may have advocated the mixing of selected practices from several different religions, including Judaism. This mixing of religious tradition is known as...

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syncretism

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In Galatians 2, Paul recounts an incident at Antioch in which he directly confronts the apostle _______ because that apostle was behaving inconsistently in associating with uncircumcised believers

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Peter

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Paul asserts in Galatians that the original purpose of the Law was to

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teach people that they are sinners

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Some of the Galatians used Paul's doctrine of freedom from the Law as an excuse to indulge in any desire or appetite, a view known as..

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antinomianism

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Paul wrote the Book of Romans because...

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Paul wanted to enlist the help of the roman church for his upcoming mission trip to Spain.

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IN both Galatians and Romans, Paul uses the Hebrew Bible character of ________ as an example of a Jew who was justified before God because of his faith and not because of his obedience to the Torah.

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Abraham

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In Romans 5, Paul uses the Greek term Hamartia, or "sin" to describe humanity's rebellion against God. The term Hamartia literally means

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missing the mark

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Some later theologians used Paul's description of sin in Romans 5 to formulate a doctrine of _________which is the idea that all human beings are innately corrupt morally and inherit an unavoidable tendency to do evil.

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original sin

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In Romans 9-11, Paul argues that Israel's rejection of Jesus' messiahship is part of God's plan to allow the Gospel to be brought to the Gentiles. Later theologians used such arguments to formulate a doctrine of ________________, which claims that God has already decided who would be saved and who would be damned.

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predestination

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By what act did Abraham prove the integrity of his faith, according to James?

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when he almost offered Isaac as a human sacrifice

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Although Paul takes responsibility for his sin, he concludes that the origin of his sinful nature is not himself, but rather the

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sin that is lodged within him

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For what reason has God taken advantage of Israel's unresponsiveness to Jesus

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for humanity's universal benefit

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In his letter to the Romans, Paul pleads with believers to

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live blameless lives until the Parousia

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Paul implies that voluntary cooperation with Rome will

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benefit Christians

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According to early church tradition, Paul wrote ___________ canonical letters while imprisoned in Rome.

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four

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Which of the following cities is NOT a location scholars have suggested as the probable place where Paul was imprisoned when he wrote the captivity letters?

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Antioch

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Paul wrote the Book of Philippians to thank the church at Philippi for...

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sending Paul a gift of money while he was in prison

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The name of this person appears in the superscription of Philippians as coauthor of that book with Paul..

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Timothy

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Which of the following statements best describes the attitude that Paul expresses in Philippians concerning his imprisonment?

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Paul sees his imprisonment as an opportunity to share the Gospel of Christ with his prison guards

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Since the fourth century, many Christian theologians have understood the Christ hymn of Phil. 2:6-11 to refer to

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Jesus' prehuman existence

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A growing number of scholars see the Christ hymn in Phil. 2:6-11 as contrasting the ways Christ behaved toward God and the way

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Adam

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In Phil. 3, Paul suddenly lashes out at his enemies the Judaizers, calling them _____________, a term ancient Jews commonly used to refer to Gentiles.

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dogs

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Paul's letter to_____ is his shortest letter.

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Philemon

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According to the letter to Philemon, what did Paul do when he found out that his new friend was a slave who had run away from another old friend of Paul's?

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Paul sent the runaway slave back to his original master

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Because of Christ's absolute submission and obedience to the will of God in going to the cross to secure humanity's redemption, Jesus deserves the title of kyrios or _____________, indicating God's high exaltation of his Son

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Lord

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What is the motivating force for acceptance of God's free gift of salvation?

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faith

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What was the main "stumbling block" to the Jews that prevented them from seeing Jesus as the long awaited Messiah?

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The Messiah was supposed to be undefeated, but Jesus was killed

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Why didn't Paul preach the need for social change, i.e. abolishing slavery, equality for women, getting rid of governmental injustice, and abolishing poverty?

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He though there was no point because everyone ought to spend the little time they had left focusing on salvation.

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What did Paul thank the Philippians for?

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financial support

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The Books of 1 and 2 Timothy and Titus are called the

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pastoral epistles

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The practice of writing new works under the name of a well-known but deceased person is known as

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pseudonymity

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Many scholars doubt whether Paul actually wrote 2 Thessalonians because

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the eschatology proposed in 2 Thessalonians is quite different from that proposed in 1 Thessalonians

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According to 2 Thessalonians, which of the following must occur before the Parousia of Christ?

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the appearance of a wicked man who desecrates the Jerusalem Temple

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In the Christ hymn of Col. 1:15-20, the author portrays Christ using imagery that recalls ___________________ from the Hebrew Bible and elsewhere in ancient Judaism.

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the concept of divine Wisdom

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The contents and style of the Book of Ephesians closely resemble that of the Book of

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Colossians

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Many scholars believe that Ephesians was written as a kind of "cover letter" introducing a collection of Paul's letters, because

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the phrase "in Ephesus" does not appear in the earliest manuscripts of Eph. 1:1

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In Eph. 6, the author encourages his readers to be faithful by portraying them as

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soldiers who wear their armor and are always ready for battle

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The author of 1 Timothy claims that women are not to teach or have authority over men because

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Eve sinned before Adam in the story of the Fall in Genesis 3

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Though most scholars doubt the authenticity of all of the pastoral letters, some scholars suspect that parts of the Book of ________________ might have come from the historical Paul.

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2 Timothy

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The anonymous first epistle of Clement advocates this principle of selecting church leaders.

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apostolic succession

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What is the Christian equivalent of circumcision?

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baptism

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By his triumph, Christ is superior to all these groups except

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God the father

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Which of these books of the New Testament fits the following descriptions? It is a masterpiece of devotional literature. It has a quiet and meditative tone with no outbursts or attacks on the author's enemies. It is a highly sophisticated tract, looking on the surface like a letter.

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Ephesians

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The Gnostics were

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a cult where members possessed "secret knowledge"

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