What is predestination?

The events of your life are already determined by God

Humans have moral agency and are able to act on their own.

Which Abrahamic traditions accept divine transcendence and imminence

Judaism, Islam, and Christianity

The human being is made in the "image" of God could also mean

there is something "divine-like" about humans

Dietary regulations of Mosaic Law

why are Transcendence and Imminence paradoxical?

Imminence means similarity and transcendence means otherness

an early heretical Christian movement

The Palestinian + Babylonian Commentary on the Hebrew bible

What is the difference between the Sadducees and the Pharisees?

Sadducees believe in the literal interpretation of the Torah

Teshuvah literally means

To return either to God or the Torah

What are the conditions of Teshuvah?

Admission of guilt, remorse, resolve to not repeat, Effort

According to the Mishnah, those who do not have a place in Olam Haba deny

The afterlife as heretics + deny the divine origin of Torah

Political movement that wanted to establish land for the Jew

what are the two Gemara

Babylonian and Palestinian Gemara

What is the Sefer Torah?

A Torah scroll precisely written with great care

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1
What are the synoptic gospels?
Mathew, Mark, Luke
Genesis, exodus, Leviticus
Genesis, exodus, Leviticus, Numbers
Mathew, Mark, Luke, John
2
What does synoptic mean?
Separate from
Different views
View together
Agree on
3
Olam Haba is
The new world
The After-life
The resurrection of Jesus
The World to come
4
what does heretics/ heresy mean?
common knowledge
belief or opinion contrary to orthodox religious doctrine.
Incorrect belief
Imposing Jewish and Islamic Ideas on Christianity
5
Maimonides + Rabbinical authorities believed in the rewards of the afterlife for the righteous
False
True
6
what is the paradox of monotheism?
Transcendence and imminence
Islam and Christianity
Judaism and Islam
Christianity and Judaism
7
What is predestination?
you are responsible for the choices you make
you make your own destiny
The events of your life are already determined by God
Jesus has already determined your future
8
What is Free-will?
You are not responsible for your actions
Humans have moral agency and are able to act on their own.
you have the illusion of choice
all our actions are predetermined by God
9
Which Abrahamic traditions accept divine transcendence and imminence
Christianity, and Judaism
Judaism and Islam
Christianity, and Islam
Judaism, Islam, and Christianity
10
The human being is made in the "image" of God could also mean
God has a form which resembles that of a human being
God can transform into a human being
God can be reincarnated
there is something "divine-like" about humans
11
What is Kosher?
The name for the Lamb and Pork the Jews can eat
Salt of the earth
Dietary regulations of Mosaic Law
None of the Above
12
What is the Mishnah?
Part of the Talmud
All of the Above
Commentary on the Hebrew bible
Collection of Jewish oral traditions
13
Judaism rejects Christianity's claim that Jesus was divine
False
True
14
How are the Laws of Jesus summarized
Love God and thyself
Worship God and thy neighbor
Love God and thy Neighbor
Worship God and thyself
15
The Noahide Laws are
a pathway to divine intervention
Intended for Jews and Gentiles
always and must always be followed by Jews
not the key to the afterlife
16
What is divine Fiat
All of the above
God brings everything into existence through speech
Every human being is fundamentally good
creative command
17
why are Transcendence and Imminence paradoxical?
Imminence means similarity and transcendence means otherness
Transcendence means we can know God
They are not paradoxical
Transcendence means similarity and Imminence means otherness
18
what is Gnosticism?
an early heretical Christian movement
Direct experiential knowledge of God
group of deities of a given polytheistic religion
Uncertainty about whether God exists
19
What is Gemara?
The Teachings
The Palestinian + Babylonian Commentary on the Hebrew bible
The people that were kicked out of the promise land
The oral Torah
20
which religions are faced with the paradox of monotheism
The Abrahamic traditions
Judaism, Christianity, and Hinduism
Judaism and Christianity
Buddhism, Christianity and Sikhism
21
What is the difference between the Sadducees and the Pharisees?
Sadducees believe in the literal interpretation of the Torah
Pharisees believe in the literal interpretation of the Torah
Sadducees reject the literal interpretation of the Torah
Pharisees reject the Oral interpretation of the Torah
22
In many passages, the Hebrew bible does NOT affirm the transcendence and imminence of God
True
False
23
To experience the presence of God is to experience the Shekhinah
False
True
24
what does the Shekhinah manifest?
Divinity
Christ
Transcendence
Immanence
25
What did God breathe into Adam when he was created?
A soul
Eve
A heart
A spirit
26
what does heterodoxy mean?
Imposing Jewish and Islamic Ideas on Christianity
common knowledge
Incorrect belief
other belief
27
What is Yom Kippur dedicated to?
The baptism
Teshuvah
The holy trinity
The Exodus
28
Teshuvah literally means
To return to purity
To return either to God or the Torah
To return to God or Jesus
To return to spirituality or the soul
29
Talmud =
Gemara + Nevi'im
Tanakh + Gemara
Mishnah + Tanakh
Gemara + Mishnah
30
The infinite CAN become finite in Judaism
True
False
31
What are the conditions of Teshuvah?
there are no conditions except repentance
Admission of guilt, remorse, resolve to not repeat, Effort
Effort, admission of guilt, repeat of offence
rejection of guilt, remorse, resolve repeat, effort
32
The Law of Moses, or Mosaic Law
forms the basis of Jewish law
is intended for Jews and gentiles
came from mount Sinai
was formed in the promise land
33
According to the Mishnah, those who do not have a place in Olam Haba deny
God and need deliverance
Deny God's existence
None of the Above
The afterlife as heretics + deny the divine origin of Torah
34
What is Zionism?
Political movement that wanted to establish land for the Jew
The movement that established land for the Christians
The movement that established the promise land for the Jews
Movement against Christianity
35
By observing the Noahide laws non-Jews are entitled a place in Olam Haba
True
False
36
what are the two Gemara
Babylonian and Egyptian Gamara
Babylonian and Palestinian Gemara
Israeli and Egyptian Gemara
Palestinian and Egyptian Gemara
37
What does Yehudi mean
Jewish freedom fighter
From the Kingdom of Judah/ Jew
Leader of the Jews
Leader of the promise land/ its people
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Who are the Gentiles
The people of the promise land
God's chosen people
Non Jews
The people of Egypt
39
What is the Sefer Torah?
A Creed precisely written with great care
A Talmud scroll precisely written with great care
A Mishnah scroll precisely written with great care
A Torah scroll precisely written with great care
40
What does "Beth" mean, and what does "Eretz" mean?
People; Land
Israel; Earth
Land; people
Earth; Israel
41
Our soul has its origins in Jesus
True
False
42
Judaism rejects the possibility of God becoming man
True
False
43
Jews engage in ←→ to rectify wrongdoing and absolve themselves from the consequences of sin
Teshuvah/Teshubah
Yom Kipur
Baptism
The passover
44
The Hebrew bible is
All of the above
None of the Above
A canon of Christianity
The old testament in Christianity
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What is the Shekhinah
otherness of God
the divine intervention
nearness and similarity
Indwelling presence of God
46
Jewish theology tends to affirm free- will and reject predestination
False
True

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