What was Thessalonica?

True or false
Paul devoted little if any effort to narrating tales about what Jesus said and did doing his public ministry.

True or false
recent scholars have realize that Paul's literally means that he had been working full time and had used his place of business as a point of contact with people to proclaim the gospel ?

True or false
Even though Paul was engaged in manual labor he was not an ordinary blue collar worker he was highly educated far more so than most of the people that he would me doing a work day .

True or false

Most people stopping by the shop of Paul were almost certainly pagan, worshipers of Greco Roman deities who believed that there were lots of gods all of all of whom deserve devotion and cult?

True or False
Many of the people that stopped in to do business with paw were christians so he had great conversations about the gospel of Jesus Christ?

What was the core message of Paul to the pagan of Thessalonica?

True or false
before Paul could talk about jesus he first had to win convert to the god of israel the one created or of heaven and earth who choose his people and promise to bless all the nations of the earth through them.

Thus Paulal proclamation began with an argument against the existence and reality of the deity worshiped in the local cults.

Paul told converters that Jesus Christ died and rose from the dead for their sins and was truly the Son of God.

True or False
Paul tqught a strongly apocalyptic message?
That the world was soon end. And all that believed in the Son of God Jesus Christ, would find salvation and would be spare the wrath of God the Father.

Describe the Thessalonian christians as a social group?

True or False
the church in Thessalonian may have been roughly organized like one of these ancient trade organizations and funeral societies

True or False
Paul Charis the notion that his message did not represent a new religion but the religion of the Jews come now to fulfillment in Jesus Christ.

When Paul and his companions left Thessalonica, they journeyed to Athens perhaps again to set up shop.
However feeling anxious about the young church Paul sent whom back to check on the situation in Thessalonica?

True or False
1 Thessalonians represents a kind of followup letter. Even though technically speaking, it was co-authored by Paul. Silvanus and Timothy.

What was the most obvious piece of information that Timothy brought back to his colleagues?

True or False
Paul epistles generally follow the form of most Greco-Roman letters they are as a rule much longer and 1ltend to have a shape of their own, they typically began with a prescription that names the senders and the addresses followed by a prayer or blessing and then an expression of Thanksgiving to God for the congregation?

True or False
Paul's letter to the Thessalonians was a letter that he loved to write compare to the letter that he wrote to the Galatians?

The closest analogy to 1 Thessalonians from elsewhere in Greco Roman antiquity is a kind of correspondence that modern scholars have labeled what?

True or False
The religion of Christianity was outlawed?

Explain Paul's three-storied universe?

According to The Book of Acts what was Paul's experience while in Thessalonica?

According to Paul, the Christians that he brought to the faith were former?

According to Scripture how did Paul reach the pagans of Thessalonica?

Who served with Paul in converting the pagans of Thessalonica?

Who are Stoic and Cynic?

What are the Proselytizers

Describe the church of Thessalonians?

Cynics

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Funeral Societies

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Insula

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Macedonia

Socio-Historical Method

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Stoics

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Timothy

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Most scholars believe that Paul’s first letter was _____.
a. Philippians
b. 1 Thessalonians
c. 2 Thessalonians
d. Romans

Chapter 13
Paul’s primary reason for writing 1 Thessalonians was
a. to chastise the Thessalonians for ethical misconduct.
b. to clarify the meaning of the Eucharist.
c. to renew his friendship with the church.
d. to praise their missionary efforts.

Chapter 13
Paul’s missions were typically located in
a. large urban areas.
b. rural villages.
c. synagogues.
d. outside the Roman Empire.

Chapter 13
When Paul entered a new town, he _____.
a. immediately celebrated Eucharist with the Christian community
b. stood in the streets preaching
c. met with the local church officials
d. opened a business

Chapter 13
Paul’s first task in converting pagans was probably _____.
a. to convince them of his apostolic authority
b. to convince them of the importance of Jesus’ death and resurrection
c. to teach them Jesus’ parables
d. to convince them that there is only one God

Chapter 13
It is probable that Paul’s converts were _____.
a. all wealthy
b. all poor
c. a mix of social classes
d. Jews

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Paul’s converts most likely met in _____.
a. houses
b. the Temple
c. the synagogue
d. church buildings

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The most important issue Paul addresses in 1 Thessalonians is _____.
a. what happens to Christians who have died
b. the illegality of Christianity
c. a schism in the community
d. the presence of false prophets

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The Thessalonians were principally concerned because _____.
a. some of them had been taken up in the rapture
b. some of them had died before Jesus’ return
c. some of them were acting immorally
d. some of them had left the church

Chapter 13
Paul assured the Thessalonians that _____.
a. they would no longer be persecuted
b. all of Jesus’ followers, dead and alive, would ultimately be together with Christ at his coming
c. Jesus’ followers would become governors in God’s earthly kingdom
d. they were right to reject false prophets

Chapter 13
Paul seems to have thought that _____.
a. he and the Thessalonians would die before the end comes
b. he and some the Thessalonians would be alive when the end came
c. the end had already come
d. the end would not come

Chapter 13
When Paul ministered to the Gentiles, he appears to have taught them all of the following except
a. the imminence of the end of the world.
b. Jesus is the special Son of God.
c. to turn away from idols.
d. that all male converts should be circumcised.

Chapter 13
Which aspect of early Christian communities likely encouraged charges of perversion against them?
a. their belief in the resurrection
b. their belief in the imminent end of the age
c. their closed, private meetings
d. their letter-writing activity

Chapter 13
Who seems to have made up the majority of Paul’s community at Thessalonica?
a. former pagans
b. former Jews
c. former Cynic philosophers
d. Samaritans

Chapter 13
Communal cohesion among early Christian communities was fostered by all of the following except
a. common beliefs and rules.
b. shared experience of persecution.
c. exclusive insider information.
d. church buildings.

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Achaia

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Apollos

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Aquila and Priscilla

Chloe

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Conciliatory Letter

Corinth

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Love Chapter

Meat Offered to Idols

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Painful Letter

Partition Theories

Sosthenes

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Stephanus, Fortunatus, and Achaicus

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Superapostles

Titus, Christian

Corinthians was a large and prosperous city south of Thessalonica in the Roman province of _________.

The city of Corinth was destroed in 146 BCE by the Romans but was refounded a century later as a _______ _____.

The congregation at Corinth has what type of issues?

One of the problems in the Church at Corinth was what?

What are some of the other issues that face the Church in Corinth?

How did Paul, Timothy, and Silvanus set when they arrived in the city of Ci=oeinth?

Who were Aquila and Priscilla living in Corinth?

What is one of the major difference that Luke and Paul make about his mission?

True or False
Unlike the Church of Thessalonica, the Church of Corinth had a members that were wealthy and did not have to work long hours.

True or False
The majority of Paul's converts were evidently from the lower classes as he himself reminds them.

How long did Paul and company stay in Corinth vs Thessalonica?

What was Paul's main message to the Church of Corith?

What was the primary importance in Paul's preaching to the Corinthians?

True or False
Paul had talked the Christians at Corinth that jesus death and resurrection were both anticipated in the scriptures moreover to out his letter he appears to the scriptures in order to make his point?

Hu was Apollos?

Who is Sosthenes?

When 1 Corinthians was written the following indivduals were pfesent and write the letter.

How did Paul described how he heard about the issues at the church of Corinth?

Name the different factions of the church in Corinth?

What was the first issue that Paul addressed with the church at Corinthian.

True or false Paul looked at the church of current in the sent that they were more concerned with self exaltation?

True or False
By the time Paul came to write 2 Corinthians his tone had changed although his tune had not.

At what point in 2 Corinthians does Paul's attitude and tone change in his letter to the church in Corinth?

What are super apostle's

Paul wrote 1 Corint hians from what city?

How would one characterized as Paul's 2nd visit to the church in Corinth?

What are the total number of the letters Paul writes to the church in Corinth.

The church in Corinth had all of the following problems except
a. members were not conducting communal meals properly.
b. members were concerned about those who had died.
c. members were suing one another.
d. a member was sleeping with his stepmother.

Class differences in the Corinthian church led to all of the following except
a. members not conducting communal meals properly.
b. the wealthy asserting a more thorough knowledge than the poor.
c. separate churches for the rich and poor.
d. differences of understanding related to food sacrificed to idols.

Paul says that his primary message to the Corinthians was _____.
a. love one another
b. Christ crucified
c. the virgin birth
d. the sinlessness of Jesus

The Christians in Corinth appear to have believed that _____.
a. Jesus was not resurrected
b. Jesus did not die
c. they already enjoyed the full benefits of salvation
d. they would not die

In 1 Corinthians, Paul says that he learned about some of the problems in Corinth from _____.
a. Chloe’s people
b. Timothy
c. Sosthenes
d. Onesimus

Paul taught the Corinthians that the resurrected body _____.
a. was a disembodied soul
b. was an actual body but transformed
c. was the same as the earthly body
d. did not exist

Paul demonstrates the truth of the general resurrection by appealing to _____.
a. his own resurrection
b. the testimony of the women who found the empty tomb
c. the empty tomb
d. Christ’s resurrection

According to Paul, one problem with misunderstanding the resurrection is that _____.
a. people overlook the danger of sin
b. people will die
c. people need to be rebaptized
d. it leads people to worship idols

1 and 2 Corinthians are unique because _____.
a. they represent the only correspondence from a church to Paul
b. they are pseudepigraphic
c. they are written to a church Paul never visited
d. they are the only undisputed letters Paul writes to the same community

Many scholars think 2 Corinthians is _____.
a. pseudepigraphic
b. anonymous
c. a collection of several letters
d. a unified letter

The first part of 2 Corinthians expresses _____.
a. Paul’s joy for the community
b. Paul’s disgust for the community
c. Paul’s anger at the community
d. Paul’s humiliation when he visited the community

Presuming 2 Corinthians is a composite letter, Paul wrote at least _____ letters to Corinth.
a. two
b. three
c. four
d. five

The superapostles believed that _____.
a. Christians were susceptible to sin and evil
b. the Corinthians had to be circumcised
c. Christians already enjoyed an exalted existence
d. Paul was the ultimate authority

Corinth is all of the following except
a. a prosperous port city.
b. a cosmopolitan city.
c. in the province of Achaia.
d. located in Italy.

Most of what scholars refer to as “partition theories” suggest that 2 Corinthians 1–9 _____.
a. was originally a single letter
b. was originally several letters
c. was originally part of 1 Corinthians
d. was lifted from Jewish Scriptures

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Abraham

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Cephas

Chapter 15
Colossae

Chapter 15
Epaphras

Epaphroditus

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Euodia and Syntyche

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Galatia

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Manumission

Chapter 15
Onesimus

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Paidagogos

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Philemon

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Philippi

According to Paul, circumcision _____.
a. was painful and therefore unnecessary
b. was of the utmost importance for Christians
c. made no difference in whether a person was righteous or not
d. was a personal choice for Christians

Galatians is unique among the undisputed Pauline letters because _____.
a. it is a compilation of two letters
b. it contains no thanksgiving
c. it is not addressed to a Christian community
d. it contains no prescript

Paul founded the Galatian churches _____.
a. by setting up shop in an insula
b. by preaching in the synagogue
c. by sending Timothy to the area
d. when he fell ill in the area

Paul’s opponents in Galatia appear to have _____.
a. questioned Paul’s authority to preach
b. fully supported Paul’s gospel
c. insisted on rebaptizing the Galatians
d. preached primarily in the local synagogue

Paul countered his Galatian opponents by saying that he _____.
a. received knowledge about Jesus from the disciples
b. was an eyewitness to Jesus’ ministry
c. received his knowledge directly from God
d. had been baptized by John

One way Paul argued against his Galatian opponents was _____.
a. to point out that the apostles agreed with him
b. to point to the Gospels
c. to send Phoebe to them
d. to work miracles

Which of the apostles joined Paul in Antioch and stopped eating with the Gentiles?
a. Cephas
b. James
c. Titus
d. Matthew

According to Paul, a person is justified by _____.
a. adhering to the Law
b. being circumcised
c. faith in Christ
d. believing in the virgin birth

According to Paul, Gentiles fulfill the law by _____.
a. circumcision
b. keeping the Sabbath
c. observing the dietary laws
d. loving one another

Euodia and Syntyche were _____.
a. missionaries who traveled with Paul
b. bishops in Galatia
c. women causing problems in Philippi
d. Paul’s patrons

Philemon is different from the other undisputed letters because _____.
a. it is addressed to a church he did not found
b. it argues against an apocalyptic worldview
c. it argues that Gentiles must be circumcised
d. it is addressed to an individual

Onesimus was _____.
a. a missionary
b. a slave
c. one of Jesus’ disciples
d. a slaveholder

Which Pauline letters includes a Christ hymn?
a. Philemon
b. Philippians
c. Galatians
d. Romans

Paul’s letter to the Galatians is best characterized as _____.
a. friendly
b. justified
c. pro-circumcision
d. angry

What is likely the basis for Paul’s relative lack of attention to social inequities?
a. Paul’s apocalyptic outlook
b. he noted other apostles were taking care of such issues
c. the absence of such issues in the Gospels
d. his correspondence never offered occasions to deal with such issues

What is the basic premise of Galatians?

According to Paul in the Book of Galatians, how is a person justified?

Paul's apostolic mission was commissioned by whom?

How did Paul handle people that questioned his authorty?

Why did God give the law in the first place?

Paidagogoa

Explain the representation between Abraham's two son's Isaac vs Ishmael?

The first 2 chapters of Philippians sounds like what?

In Chapter 3 of Philippians turns into what kind of letter?