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| What is the difference between revelation and inspiration? |
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| Revelation is vertical it is God speaking to directly to man. Inspiration is horizontal Gods truth conveyed to man by scripture. |
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| Is it possible to have revelation without inspiration? |
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| What is concursive inspiration? |
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| Revelation and inspiration become one/God directs the writer through his mind |
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| Which theory of inspiration does Erickson favor? |
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| What are the objective bases for the Bibles authority? |
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| What is the subjective bases for the Bibles authority? |
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| Illumination by the Holy Spirit |
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| Is man capable of understanding divine truth without the Holy Spirits help? |
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| Is man responsible for his spiritual blindness, is it the devils doing, or has God himself willed it? |
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| What is the act by which the Spirit opens the hearts of unbelievers to the gospel? |
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| What is the act by which the Spirit enlightens believers? |
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| Which deity of the Trinity is the Holy Spirit said to glorify? |
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| Does the Holy Spirit give new revelation today? |
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| No-His action today is called illumination |
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| What two schools of scribes took pains to deliver to us n accurate text of the OT? |
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| How much older than the Massoretic text are the Dead Sea Scrolls? |
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| How many manuscripts of the NT are still in existence? |
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| Of the 3 kinds of manuscripts (uncial, miniscule, lectionary) which is the best? |
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| Which family of manuscripts is the most reliable? |
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| What are some of the manuscripts belonging to the Alexandrian family? |
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| Upon which family is the KJV based? |
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| What is the oldest fragment of the New Testament? |
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| What was Erasmus's edition of the Greek NT called (from which Luther and King James made their translations from) |
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| What rules do textual critics employ to determine the most probable form of the original text? |
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1.Oldest
2.Shortest
3.Hardest |
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| What percentage of the NT is still subject to substantial doubt? |
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| Over how long a period was the Bible written, and how many authors? |
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| 1500 to 1600 years and 40 authors |
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| What does homolegomena mean? |
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| What does antilegomina mean? |
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| What does pseudepigrapha mean? |
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| Which books were antilegomena in the OT? |
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| Esther, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon, Proverbs |
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| Which books of the NT are antilegomena? |
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| Hebrews, James, 2 Peter, 2and3 John, Jude, Revelation |
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| What were the main criteria for acceptance into the OT canon? |
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| What were the main criteria for acceptance into the NT canon? |
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| What was the latest a book could be written and still accepted into the OT? |
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| What was the Greek Translation of the OT called? |
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| At which council was the OT canon fixed? What was the date? |
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| At which council was the NT canon fixed? What was the date? |
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| Why is the Apocryphal text not in our Bible? |
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| They emphasise the miraculous at the expense of the gospel and claim to provide further information about the apostles Christ and other Biblical char. |
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| What NT passage is called into question for its lack of strong manuscript support? |
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| Which theory of inspiration believes that the authors of the Bible were "advanced in natural spiritual knowledge" |
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