CHR 105 (Dr. Motes) Midterm Exam Review Questions and Answers Graded A+

CHR 105 (Dr. Motes) Midterm Exam Review Questions and Answers Graded A+ According to the textbook, the two most common excuses for not studying the Bible are that people don't see the value of Bible study and that people don't know how to study the Bible. - Answers True According to the textbook, the Bible is very similar to other religious texts, like the Quran of Islam. - Answers False According to the textbook, the two types of divine revelation are: - Answers General and special According to the textbook, archaeology can prove everything about the Bible. - Answers False In 2 Timothy 3:16, Paul describes all the Scripture as: - Answers God-breathed What is the theory of inspiration advocated in the textbook and most evangelical Christians? - Answers Verbal Plenary Theory According to the textbook, what is the most important witness to the authority of Scripture? - Answers Scripture itself When theologians ascribe "inspiration" to the Bible, they mean that... - Answers The Bible was written by men through the influence of the Holy Spirit. According to the textbook, the Scriptures are an example of God's general revelation. - Answers False According to the textbook, hundreds of occurrences of expressions like "thus says the Lord" and "the word of the Lord came to" may be found in the Old Testament prophetic literature. - Answers True The subsections of the Old Testament in the Hebrew Bible and the English Protestant Bible are different. - Answers True These factors led Old Testament authors to pen their documents in the first place. - Answers A desire to preserve a written record of God's actions for future generations; Yahweh's (The LORD's) explicit instruction to write; A concern to teach and encourage ancient Israelites. What purposes did New Testament authors pen their documents in the first place? - Answers A desire to preserve the teachings and works of Jesus The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls demonstrated that the Old Testament text had been faithfully preserved from the second century BC to the tenth century AD. - Answers True The first known translation of the Hebrew Bible into another language is: - Answers The LXX What is not a criteria most likely used for the canonization of a New Testament book? - Answers A book's authorship needed to have a clear connection to an authoritative figure in Israel The Muratorian Fragment indicates that no list of authoritative books existed in early Christianity. - Answers False What is the New Testament manuscript that contains the earliest complete collection of NT books? - Answers Codex Sinaiticus The only OT book not represented in the Dead Sea Scrolls is Ruth. - Answers False What is the correct order for the 4 stages that led to the form of the Bible as we have it today? - Answers Original production, transmission, canonization, translation According to the textbook, there are 2 levels of historical context one must understand to interpret the original meaning of any passage--the context of the original events themselves and the context of the present day reader. - Answers False According to the textbook, the central focus of all the Bible is: - Answers God and His Christ According to the textbook, your personal frame of reference can be a barrier to correct Bible interpretation. - Answers True The Bible was originally written in which two languages: - Answers Hebrew and Greek