What does myth mean in reference to scripture?

A myth is the relation between the world and the sacred

What was going on in the community at the time the Gospel of Matthew was written?

a. Christian Jews were at conflict with other Jews

What catastrophic event occurred in the year 70CE?

Jerusalem was conquered and its temple destroyed

What are the two ways of reading the Gospels?

Historical Jesus and canonical Jesus

What are the two ways of interpreting the belief that God is creator of all that is?

God is creating everything in every moment of time, God creates creation in a particular moment in the past

When were most of the New Testament books written?

Between 50 CE and the end of the 1st Century

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1
What does myth mean in reference to scripture?
A myth is the relation between the world and the sacred
A myth should not be taken seriously
a. A myth is a mistaken belief
A myth is to dismiss it
2
When was the gospel of Matthew written?
a. 4 BCE
a. 30 CE
90-100 CE
a. 80-90 CE
3
What led to the followers of Jesus separating themselves from Judaism and becoming Christians?
The Jewish community ostracizing those who saw Jesus as the Messiah
Roman perceptions that the Christian Jews and Jews were separate religions
All the above
Growing numbers of believers in Jesus and Gentile converts
4
What was going on in the community at the time the Gospel of Matthew was written?
Jerusalem and the temple were reconquered and destroyed by the roman empire
a. Christian Jews were at conflict with other Jews
a. Jews were excluding Jews who did not view Jesus as the Messiah.
a. The spread of early Christianity into the roman empire
5
What happened when Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit?
Got sick to their stomach
Committed the first human sin
The serpent died
Fed fruit to the animals
6
What are key themes of the Gospel of Matthew?
Salvation to Gentiles
a. Eternal life
a. Progression of the Gospel
a. Jesus is one like Moses
7
How many stories of creation are there in Genesis?
4
3
2
7
8
Which historical biblical figure led the exodus out of Egypt?
Kanye
a. Abraham
a. Jesus
Moses
9
What does the Spirit of God represent?
love
kanye
strength and unity
promise and fulfillment
10
What does the “P” for the “P” story stand for?
Parish story
Practical story
Pentateuch story
a. Priestly story
11
What catastrophic event occurred in the year 70CE?
Sepphoris was burned after Herod the Great died
Jerusalem was conquered and its temple destroyed
Adam and Eve sinned were exiled from Eden
Jesus was executed on the cross
12
What are the two ways of reading the Gospels?
a. The Lamb of God and Joshua
Historical Jesus and canonical Jesus
a. Ancient Jesus and Historical Jesus
Old Testament and New Testament
13
Why were Adam and Eve not believed to be literally real?
Adam is Hebrew for Adham which refers to “all men” not a specific man.
The name, Adam and Eve, were not actual names in the Hebrew bible
They are real
Blue and Yellow
14
What are the two ways of interpreting the belief that God is creator of all that is?
God created nothing; humans did.
God did it with the help of humans
God is creating everything in every moment of time
God creates creation in a particular moment in the past
15
When was Luke written?
around year 200
10-20 years after Mark
70 CE
a decade or two after Mark
16
The wedding banquet represents a metaphor for the relationship between:
Both Blue and Yellow
Heaven and Earth
a. Heaven and Hell
Divine Human relationship
17
What year did the Israelites come into existence?
a. 10th century BCE
50 CE
90 CE
13th century BCE
18
What year was the gospel of Mark written?
100-110 CE
80-98 CE
26-32 CE
70 CE
19
What went wrong in the Garden of Eden causing people to live an existence that has experiences of evil and suffering.
the primal act as disobedience
the primal act as hubris
all the above
the primal act as sloth
20
When were most of the New Testament books written?
Between 25 CE and 75 CE
After the 1st Century
Between 50 CE and the end of the 1st Century
a. Between the year 0 and 25 CE
21
All the following about the Gospel of John are true, except?
Jesus is considered to be a manifestation of God
a. John was written around 90 CE
Jesus’ inaugural scene is turning water into wine.
John is a synoptic Gospel

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