Score for this quiz: 100 out of 100
Submitted Apr 5 at 9:42am
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Question 1
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According to Elwell, all Jews in the first century, including those who followed Jesus as the Christ,
believed that salvation was attained through a mixture of faith and human merit.
False
Question 2
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According to Elwell, it is likely that Luke joined Paul on his second missionary journey at Troas because
Luke, who wrote Acts, switches to the first person (“we”) at that point in the story.
True
Question 3
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According to Acts, where did Paul meet Lydia?
Philippi
Question 4
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According to the presentations, in his writings, Paul appears to have used Greek rhetoric.
True
Question 5
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According to the presentations, most of Paul’s letters were written in response to specific situations or
occasions.
True
Question 6
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According to the presentations, Paul’s letters make it clear that he worked in concert with a group of
colleagues on whom he relied.
True
Question 7
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According to Elwell, Paul’s belief in a personal, powerful, malevolent being (the Devil or Satan), as well as
his subservient underlings, both human and angelic, is an important feature of his outlook.
True
Question 8
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According to Elwell, the Jerusalem Council is important as the record of how the truth that salvation is
“by grace through faith” was debated and established.
True
Question 9
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According to Elwell, the metaphor Paul uses to denote the social reality of the church is “body.”
True
Question 10
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According to the presentations, Paul wrote his missives on leather made from skins of animals.
False
Question 11
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According to Elwell, Paul believed that Jesus’ preaching of God’s at-hand kingdom, vindicated by his
resurrection from the dead, means that the end of the age has already dawned.
True
Question 12
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According to the presentations, a key component of the worldview held by most first-century Jews,
including Paul, was the doctrine of the Two Ages.
True
Question 13
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According to the presentations, Paul’s missionary strategy appears to have been focused on Gentile
urban dwellers.
True
Question 14
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The decisions of the Jerusalem Council (Acts 15), regarding the acceptance of Gentiles as Christians,
included some restrictions for the Gentiles that may have been intended to keep them from offending
Jewish believers.
True
Question 15
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According to Elwell, Paul did not see himself as the founder of a new religion; rather, Paul saw his gospel
as being in continuity with God’s saving work as expressed in God’s covenant with Abraham and Israel.
True
Question 16
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According to the presentations, Paul’s view of salvation is best described as the triumph of God over the
Forces; that is, that God in Jesus finally and fully sets the Forces to flight.
True
Question 17
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According to the presentations, Paul’s metanarrative behind his letters is most frequently thought of as
his Christology.
False
Question 18
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According to Elwell, the city that supplanted Jerusalem in importance in apostolic times was
Antioch
Question 19
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According to Elwell, Paul had to endure brutal conditions during his imprisonment in Rome.
False
Question 20
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