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.
1) true
2) false correct answers true
According to the textbook, the Bible is very similar to other religious texts, like the Quran of
Islam.
1) true
2) false correct answers false
According to the textbook, the two types of divine revelation are:
1) general and special
2) common and cultural
3) sociological and political
4) good and bad correct answers general and special
According to the textbook, archaeology can prove everything about the Bible.
1) true
2) false correct answers false
In 2 Timothy 3:16, Paul describes the all Scripture as:
1) God-breathed
2) a consuming fire
3) a light to your path
4) hard to understand correct answers God- breathed
What is the theory of inspiration advocated in the textbook and most evangelical Christians?
,1) verbal plenary theory
2) dictation theory
3) limited inspiration theory
4) neo-orthodox theory correct answers verbal plenary theory
According to the textbook, what is the most important witness to the authority of Scripture?
1) historical evidence
2) scripture itself
3) the opinion of scholarship
4) archaeological remains correct answers scripture itself
When theologians ascribe " inspiration" to the Bible, they mean that...
1) the Bible was written to be inspiring to read
2) the Bible was written by men influenced by the Holy Spirit
3) the Bible was written by direct dictation by God
4) the Bible was written without the use any other other written or oral sources correct answers
the Bible was written by men influenced by the Holy Spirit
According to the textbook, the Scriptures are an example of God's general revelation.
1) true
2) false correct 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.
1) true
2) false correct answers true
, The subsections of the Old Testament in the Hebrew Bible and the English Protestant Bible are
different.
1) true
2) false correct answers true
Which of the following factors led Old Testament authors to pen their documents in the first
place?
1) Yahweh's (the Lord's) explicit instructions to write
2) a concern to teach and encourage ancient Israelites
3) a desire to preserve a written record of God's actions for future generations
4) all of the above correct answers all of the above
For which of the following purposes did New Testament authors pen their documents in the first
place?
1) a desire to preserve the teachings and works of Jesus
2) the need to produce more works than their early Christian competitors
3) to obtain a leadership position within the early church
4) Greco-Roman interest in new religious ideas correct 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.
1) true
2) false correct answers true
The first known translation of the Hebrew Bible into another language is:
1) the Peshitta
2) the Latin Vulgate
3) the Dead Sea Scrolls