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| The ability to stand before God as innocent. |
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| Belief in the Thousand-Year Reign; Condemned by the Catholic Church. |
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| When the messengers for God live out God's relationship with Israel in their own lives. |
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| Moses and Elijah appear with Jesus on a mountain; Reminiscent of Sinai theophany; God re-identifies Jesus as his Son. |
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| Story about Jesus' Birth. |
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| Means "Universal"; term applied to a group of letters included in the New Testament that include Teachings that can be applied to all Christian communities. |
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| Divine calling to a particular life. |
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| Literary technique of John; Use of opposites to show what it means to believe. |
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| A Condition of discipleship in Matthew that involves creating equality and denying desire for personal gain. |
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| Jewish sect that opposed religious and political policies of Hasmonean king; Emphasized the study and interpretation of the Law; pious religious rites. |
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| Paul was an ______ ______ who traveled about preaching. |
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| Jewish sect emerges in response to Roman rule; Believed that the coming of a messiah was tied to recovering Jewish independence as a nation; Political terrorists; killed foreigners and Jews who were against their cause. |
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| Led by Judas Maccabeus against Antiochus IV; allowed for Jews to regain autonomy for a short period of time; involved the rededication of the Temple. |
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| The Gospel of Mark is written to ______ Christians. |
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| Wastefully or recklessly extravagant. |
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| A condition of discipleship in Matthew; we must mimic God when we do this; involves loving people who do bad things to us. |
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| Originally an aristocratic group of wealthy Jews in Jerusalem. |
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| Material found in Matthew and Luke that does not come from Mark. |
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| Letters written by the followers of Paul. |
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| Letters written by Paul himself. |
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| Refers to the fact that Matthew, Mark, and Luke are so similar that one or two of the Gospels must have been dependent on the other. |
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| Means "disclosure" or "revelation". |
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| Refers to the area of Christianity concerned with the last things, and the coming of Jesus on the last day: human destiny, death, judgment, resurrection of the body, heaven, purgatory, and hell. |
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| Translation of Hebrew Scriptures into Greek. |
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| Materially and spiritually poor. |
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| Portrayal of Jesus in John that means "God Made Flesh". |
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| Vision that God is going to intervene decisively in order to bring this world to an end and initiate a new age. |
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| Jesus rising to heaven after the Resurrection. |
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| Portrayal of Jesus in John as the "Word" of God; pre-existent, with God before Creation. |
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| View that civil matters can be handled without the consideration of religion. |
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| Not rules - recognition of a state of happiness. |
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| To insert an action in a calendar; literary technique of Mark in which he beings a story, interrupts it with another story, then completes the first story. |
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| Refers to material from Mark that is also found in Luke and Matthew. |
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| Miraculous events in John intended to produce faith. |
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| Greek for "one called alongside"; term used in John. |
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| The idea that numbers have coded meaning. |
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| Jewish sect that reacted to the Hasmonean's secularism by withdrawing from Jerusalem completely; went to the desert around the Dead Sea; Brought copies of Hebrew Scriptures. |
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