Gnosticism Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

CHURCH OF GOD ORDAINED MINISTER STUDY GUIDE, COMPLETE SOLUTION GROWING REVELATION The Bible is a _______ of God and His plan of salvation for humanity. Moses _______ authored the Pentateuch. visible and invisible universe Creation is the act of God whereby He brought forth the _____ and _____ without the use of preexisting materials a.d. 70's The book of Matthew was written sometime around _____. Zechariah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel These three men where both priests and prophets. Hagga...

Platonism correct answers Truth is universal and eternal, moral life is patterning ones behaviour in accordance with universal ideas Aristotle correct answers Pupil who rejected teacher Plato's explanation, ideas are a reflection of things and good consists in the realization of the ends potential in ones nature. Concerned with phenomenal world, was concerned to differentiate reality and to understand how it grows, develops and changes. Stoicism correct answers Greek philosophy by Zeno - ...

intertestamental period - correct answer about 400 BC to 1 AD 2nd temple period - correct answer 530 BC to 70AD Gnosticism - correct answer material word is evil and said Jesus could not have been a person - correct answer taught that pleasure (in the sense of happiness, not necessarily sensual pleasure) was the chief good in life. This led to an advocacy of "hedonism," the pursuit of pleasure as a matter of ethical principle. Stoicism - correct answer taught the dutiful a...

Pseudonymous - pseudepigrapha is made of two words, from pseudos meaning false and graphein meaning write Righteousness/righteousness of god - (1) the righteousness that god produces (subjective genitive), transforms believer; (2) god's own attribute of righteousness (possessive genitive), refers to his divine justice in eschatological judgment; (3) the righteousness imputed by god (genitive of source), god declaring sinners righteous on the basis on their faith Justification - the actio...

Ebianism Jewish in origin, denied Jesus' divinity (it would be too "polytheistic") Docetism Jesus not fully human Related to Gnosticism Divine Monarchianism - Dynamic God adopted a very virtuous man Divine Monarchianism - Modalistic The Godhead is expressed in three modes Arianism Jesus was the first of God's creations Apollinarianism Denies Jesus' humanity

NBST 515-001 Exam Questions And Answers intertestamental period - ANS about 400 BC to 1 AD 2nd temple period - ANS 530 BC to 70AD Gnosticism - ANS material word is evil and said Jesus could not have been a person - ANS taught that pleasure (in the sense of happiness, not necessarily sensual pleasure) was the chief good in life. This led to an advocacy of "hedonism," the pursuit of pleasure as a matter of ethical principle. Stoicism - ANS taught the dutiful accepta...

intertestamental period/2 temple intertestamental was from 400 BC to 25 AD (end of Malachi's time to preaching of John the Baptist), 2nd temple period between 515BC when it was built by Zerubbabel till its destruction in 70 AD by the Romans hellenism cultural influence of ancient Greece apocrypha means things that are hidden, written during the 2nd temple period, pseudepigrapha lies about the author to add authority to it gnosticism rooted in platonic dualism, equated matter with evi

30-99 The Age of the Apostles: The last one died around the year 100 (The Apostle John). New Testament books were written. (Plus other books were written which purported to be from or about the apostles but weren't.) Christianity moved from being centered in Jerusalem to ranging from Spain to India to Ethiopia. Jews persecuted the Christians at the beginning, by the end this switched to the Romans. Demographic of Christianity: mainly Jews at the beginning of the century and mainly G...

CHURCH OF GOD ORDAINED MINISTER STUDY GUIDE, COMPLETE SOLUTION GROWING REVELATION The Bible is a _______ of God and His plan of salvation for humanity. Moses _______ authored the Pentateuch. visible and invisible universe Creation is the act of God whereby He brought forth the _____ and _____ without the use of preexisting materials a.d. 70's The book of Matthew was written sometime around _____. Zechariah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel These three men where both priests and prophets. Hagg...

NBST 520-001 Exam 2 Questions and answers. 100% Accurate. pseudonymous - pseudepigrapha is made of two words, from pseudos meaning false and graphein meaning write righteousness/righteousness of God - (1) the righteousness that God produces (subjective genitive), transforms believer; (2) God's own attribute of righteousness (possessive genitive), refers to his divine justice in eschatological judgment; (3) the righteousness imputed by God (genitive of source), God declaring sinners rig...