Bible Study

Question 1

Which is a genre of literature found in the Bible?

Accepted Answer

narrative, wisdom, poetry

Question 2

What Bible study tool helps you understand the meanings of Biblical words?

Accepted Answer

Bible dictionary

Question 3

What is Eisogesis?

Accepted Answer

reading into the text one's own meaning

Question 4

Which is a helpful exercise in Bible study?

Accepted Answer

comparing translations, employ a study method, Using Bible study tools

Question 5

The Bible can be legitimately seen as a "rule book" for life.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 6

What do we call the task of finding out what the text meant to the original audience?

Accepted Answer

exegesis

Question 7

Feelings need to inform truth, not truth inform feelings.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 8

What is a way we can limit eisogesis?

Accepted Answer

dialogue with others from different denominations, acknowledge one's own biases, read sources from different time periods

Question 9

Which is true regarding the Bible?

Accepted Answer

It was written over 1,500 years

Question 10

What Bible study tool helps you find passages and keywords?

Accepted Answer

Bible concordance

Question 11

What do we call reviewing what is before and after the text we are studying?

Accepted Answer

literary context

Question 12

What is the Bible?

Accepted Answer

a library of books that together tell God's story

Question 13

What is the sacred rule of exegesis and hermeneutics?

Accepted Answer

it can never mean to us what it could have never meant to them

Question 14

What do we call the task of correctly determining what the text means to us today?

Accepted Answer

hermeneutics

Question 15

Feelings are good

Accepted Answer

good servants but not good masters

Question 16

Which do we have to consider when doing exegesis?

Accepted Answer

the literary context, the genre of literature, the cultural context

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