Confirmation Test I

This is a test over the natural and revealed knowledge of God, The OT and NT and Authority

1. Name at least two things in the world that you can look at and see evidence of a God.
2. What did Sandy in the comments section call Darwinism?
3. Where does morality come from?
4. Over what period of time was the Old Testament written?
5. What is the earliest manuscript of the Old Testament that we currently have?
6. When was the last time that the Canon of the Old Testament was discussed and what was the name of the council?
7. What does the word Torah mean?
8. What books make up the Torah?
9. Over what period of time was the New Testament written?
10 What do the Gnostics believe in general?
11. Where were many of the Gnostic Gospels discovered?
12. In what year and where was the New Testament Canon confirmed?
13. What are the first three gospels called as a group?
14. What three languages was the Bible written in?
15. What are the three I's that we believe in as Lutherans?
16. What is the difference between a translation and a paraphrase?
17. Why is the natural knowledge of God not enough for salvation?
18. Where does God reveal himself to us?
19. What is the ulitmate source of authority for a Christian?
20 How many books are there in the Bible?

Now for the answers to the questions I asked you a week ago.

Why are the first eleven chapters of the Bible so important? The first eleven chapters contain everything that serves as a foundation for the rest of the Bible. You have the creation and fall, the promise of the Messiah, the first murder, the flood, the covenant given to Noah and the Tower of Babel. If you discredit these chapters the entire Bible falls apart. There is no sin, no Savior, no relationship between man and God.

Who wrote the book of Psalms? Well it wasn't just one person. We know that David wrote a lot of it. Solomon wrote some and there are at least two or three other authors as well.

Why is it when the New Testament quotes the Old Testament that the wording is many times different from what you read in your Old Testament? The translation of the Old Testament that you have in your modern Bible is a translation from the original Hebrew version of the Bible. But the Old Testament that Jesus and others had during that time is actually the Septuagint. When Alexander the Great conquered all of that area about three hundred years before Christ, he brought the Greek language with him. Over a period of time it became the universal language. So a bunch of Jewish scholars in Egypt, 70 in all hence the name Septuagint, translated the Hebrew Old Testament into Greek. So that is what they were using. So when they quoted the Old Testament they were quoting the Greek translation of the Hebrew. Therefore the words are different, but the meaning is the same.

I hope you did well on the test. You can do with it what you want. You can either send it in, answer in the comments section, or just keep it privately to yourself. Next week we will start talking about the law of God.

Pastor Fred