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| What is the definition of an Epistle? |
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| An epistle is an ancient letter. |
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| The New Testament epistle are written how? |
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| In the style and format of ordinary personal or business letters of that day and time. |
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| The style and format of ordinary personal or business letters of that time and day is called what? |
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| Epistolary style includes what? |
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| 1.)signature(the person sending the letter) 2.)Address (one to whom the letter is being sent) 3.)Greetings or salutation.4.)Thanksgiving or prayer(or both) 5.)Body(the major portion of the letter)and 6.) concluding items(greetings, farewell,benediction,date,etc) |
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| What was the purpose of the Epistles? |
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1. There was a need for written recordsto preserve standard doctrine.
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2.There was a need to correct errors |
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| The Epistles are Christ's ______and______ divinely interpreted. |
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| What are advatages or methods of Epistolary Writing? |
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1.is flexibility
2.the letters deal with real churches with real problems faced by real people. |
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| The epistles are what kind of letters? |
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| What contains unspired teachings from God about His grace? |
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| The Epistles expond systematically the effect's of Christ's______and__________. |
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| The Epistles announce God's purposes for the______and the_______--both ______and in the________. |
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Church...world
now...future |
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| What is the predominate subject of the epistles? |
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| What do the epistles discuss? |
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| They discuss: the origin,duties,and destiny of the Church. |
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| Believers are a real special people in what? |
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| calling,standing, and destiny. |
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| What style of writing is Pauls writing? |
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| who had a very logical mind? |
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| Pauls letter are generally what? |
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| reasoned, condensed, and congent |
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| Paul's style though logical, is _______and_________. |
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| What is James style of writing? |
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| James' writing is full of what? |
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| James has very little what? |
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| If not mention of Christ in James 1:1,2:1,and 5:7 it would of fit perfectly were? |
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| James is concerned primarily with the _____and______. |
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| According to James Religion is not a _____but a _______ to be ______. |
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| Peter's writing was what? |
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| Peter's what is often difficult to follow? |
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| Peter's style though_____ and _______,jumps from subject to subject |
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| Like Peter himself his style is what? |
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| John's style of writing is what? |
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| John is a______(prophet),who seems to possess uncanny piercing _______into truth. |
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| John (does or does not) use logical reasoning to arrive at conclusions. |
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| What verse of John is a good example of the most profound theology wrapped in very simple vocabulary? |
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| What is the basic teaching of all the epistles and gives them a basoc underlying unity? |
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| Salvation through Jesus Christ. |
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| The Epistles are likewise the same in genuine form. (true or False) |
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| What gives the epistles the variety? |
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| 1.Each of it writers have a different and unique writing style.2.The topics discussed varies. |
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| So there exists ______ in form and doctrine,yet genuine _______ in style and content,or to state it more simple, genuine_______ within a basic overall _________. |
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| unity...variety...variety...unity |
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| Paul's teachings are naturally more _________ and __________. |
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| comprehensive...exhaustive |
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| Paul's thought affects _________ theology far more than any other Biblical writers. |
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| What were Paul's facorite topics? |
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a. Human Depravity
b. Sovereignty of God
c. Christ's Person and Work
d. Eschatology |
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| Human depravity talks about how Paul traced sin to its source which was who or what? |
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| Also in human depravity paul sees sin as what? |
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| as an act, a principle,and a state |
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| According to Paul sin as an act is a? |
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| According to Paul sin as a principle is an what? |
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| an active, aggressive hostility toward God. |
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| According to Paul sin as a state, it is to be ? |
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| found in a condition devoid of righteousness. |
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| Whose writing are full of subjects such as foreknowledge, election, and predestination? |
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| No one believed more strongly in the full ___________ of God,but no one was more _______ for evangelism then Paul was. |
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| _________________ have little to say about the words of Christ or the various activities of Christ during His earthly sojourn,and are overwhelmingly accupied with the death and resurrection of Christ. |
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| Paul sees the _____ and ____________ of Christ as a remedy for sin. |
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| Who has a rather full and explicit account of such future events as the Second Coming of Christ, bodily resurrection of Christ and all believers,and etc. |
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Directions: answer either Paul or John.
1.Thought in legal terms.
2.Thought in life terms.
3.Who has the dominant thought of God's love, the life of God is imparted to the children of God?
4.Who speaks of justification?
5. Who speaks of imparting lif |
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1.Paul
2.John
3.John
4.Paul
5.John
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7.John |
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| What are the Eschatological Epistles? |
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| What are the Soteriological Epistles? |
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| I and II Corinthians, Galatians, and Romans |
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| What are the Christological Epistles or more often called the Prison Epistles? |
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| Colossians, Ephesians, Philemon, and Phillippians |
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| What are the Ecclesiological Epistles more often called the "pastoral epistles"? |
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| I Timothy, Titus, and II Timothy |
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| Who wrote the prison epistles? |
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| Why are Epeshians, Philippians, Colossians, and Philemon called the prison epistles? |
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| Because they were written while Paul was in Prison. |
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| The first imprisonment Paul wrote what? |
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| Ephesians, Philippian, Colossians, and Philemon |
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| During Paul second imorisonment he wrote what? |
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