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1. Evaluate the arguments for and against the traditional views of the authorship of the Gospel of John. Describe the role of the Beloved Disciple and his relationship to the Fourth Gospel.
2. What are some of the major differences between the Gospel of John and the Synoptic Gospels? Briefly describe a few events and teachings in Jesus’ life that are not found in the Gospel of John.
3. How does John’s use of the Greek term logos connect Jesus with the creation account of Genesis 1 as well as the Greek principle of cosmic Reason?
4. Why did the writer of the Gospel of John compile a “Book of Signs”? briefly describe one of those signs and its meaning.
5. What does the author of John’s use of the Holy Spirit indicate about Jesus’ presence? What is the role of the Holy Spirit in the Johannine community? What are some other names for the Holy Spirit?
6. Compare the account of Jesus’ trial before Pilate with that of Paul before Pilate’s successors, Felix and Festus.
7. Identify the leaders of the Jerusalem church and the missionaries who first helped carry “the new way” into the larger world beyond the Jewish capital.
8. In recording the events of Pentecost how does Luke emphasize role of the Holy Spirit and that Christianity is a religion for all peoples? According to the author of Luke, what ancient Hebrew prophecy is fulfilled by the Spirit’s coming upon the first disciples?
9. Summarize the events that led to the expansion of Christianity from Jerusalem into Judea and Samaria. Include in your description the role of Stephen and Philip.
10. Summarize the results of Paul’s three missionary journeys into Gentile territories. What series of events led to Paul’s arrest in Caesarea and Rome?
11. Briefly describe Paul’s transformation from a zealous Pharisee to Christianity’s first great missionary. How does the account of his conversion in Acts ch. 9 differ from his own accounts in Gal. 1:15 and I Cor. 9:1 and 15:8-9?
12. What is the evidence in Acts and Paul’s letters that there was approximately 17 years between Paul’s conversion and the council in Jerusalem? What two references in Acts and Paul’s letters help us place his life and ministry in historical context?
13. How many authentic letters of Paul are there? How many disputed and/or pseudonymous letters of Paul’s exist and what generally distinguishes the authentic letters from the disputed/pseudonymous letters.
14. Briefly describe Paul’s mysticism and eschatology and explain their connection.
15. List the ways in which Jesus is central to Paul’s theology and briefly describe one of those ways, giving appropriate detail.
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Q#:1
It is not easy to determine the impact of John’s Gospel on the historical backdrop of the Church. Throughout the hundreds of years of Christian history, singular adherents of Jesus Christ have swung to the Fourth Gospel for support, illumination, and consolation in their confidence. Scholars have found in the raised Christology of John’s Gospel one of the most noteworthy and fullest articulations of Jesus’ identity in the whole Bible. Students of history who ponder the early Church have faced off regarding whether and to what degree the Johannine Christians shaped a disconnected group, and regardless of whether they contrasted generously in conviction and practice from early standard Christianity.
Q#:2
John’s Gospel precludes a lot of material found in the concise Gospels, including some shockingly imperative scenes: John does not say the enticement of Jesus, Jesus’ transfiguration, and the establishment of the Lord’s dinner. John says no cases of Jesus throwing out devils. The Sermon on the Mount and the Lord’s supplication are not found in the Fourth Gospel. There are no story illustrations in the Gospel of John (most researchers don’t respect John 16:1-9 [“the Vines as well as the Branch”] as an anecdote in the strict manner). John additionally incorporates a lot of materials that were not found in a synoptic. All these material in John 3—5, Jesus’ original Galilean service, is not found in the synoptic. Earlier visits of the Jesus to the famous Jerusalem before the enthusiasm week are specified in John however not found in a synoptic. The seventh sign-marvel, the revival of Lazarus (John 12) is not said in the synoptic. The amplified Farewell Discourse (John 14—18) is not discovered in the concise Gospel.
Q#:3
The word logo in preface of the John’s Gospel is fascinating history in old philosophical works. It is interpreted “Word” in the English adaptations. However, this interpretation fails to express all things that the term recommended to mature readers. For advantage of understudies, on the page, I have imitated talks of the time logo by the four New Testament’s researchers: Marvin, Frederic Hugh, and Campbell. The Vincent’s clarification, will be discovered most supportive, quickly clarifies what the word implied with regards to religious talk in the millennium of Hellenistic Judaism (particularly after Philon).
Q#:4
Confirmation of Johannine origin is found as ahead of schedule as Irenaeus. Eusebius reports that Irenaeus got his data from Polycarp, who thus got it from the missionaries straightforwardly. The rundown of fathers incorporates Tertullian, Clement of Alexandria, Origen, and so forth. Promote, the Moratoria Canon recommends that John was given the commission to compose this gospel after Andrew got a dream showing that he would do as such. If one somehow managed to filter out the conceivable gradual additions in this announcement, the uncovered actuality of Johannine initiation is not irritated.
Q#:5
John mainly tells what his motivation is in 20:31, ‘these are composed that you may trust that Jesus remains to be Christ, and is also the Son of God and that the life’s faith one has to live in his name.’ It may well have been the first closure of the gospel, with Ch. 21 being a kind of informative supplement. Regardless of whether it will be, it holds up the Gospel splendidly. Many great chapters in the gospel, story after story 3, might be viewed as attempting to help us trust that Jesus is the Christ the Son of God and that there is life in him.
Q#:6
The book of Acts accounts the historical backdrop of the congregation from the day of Pentecost until it conveyed its message to the immense capital of the world, Rome. Amid those early years, numerous energizing things happened. Two individuals overwhelmed: Peter amid the first couple of years, and Paul amid the most recent years. Acts 24 occurs amidst the account of Paul- – the man who took the gospel to the Gentiles. He made three visits to Gentile nations, and as we come to Acts 24, he has completed his third visit. He is no more drawn out a liberated person; he is presently a detainee.
Q#:7
It is intriguing to note that this excursion sets off not from Jerusalem, the mother Church where every one of the witnesses was assembled, however from Antioch, a recently settled Church. The Church of Antioch (Syria) had been established by devotees (laypeople), who were getting away from the abuse in Jerusalem. “The adherents who had fled from Jerusalem amid the mistreatment after Stephen’s passing gone similarly as Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch of Syria. They lectured the Good News, however just to Jews. Be that as it may, a portion of the adherents who went to Antioch from Cyprus and Cyrene started lecturing Gentiles about the Lord Jesus.
Q#:8
Luke, who supposedly composed the gospel as well as Acts of Apostles, possesses more to say in regards to the Spirits other than some other scriptural author does. He depicts the Spirit as a movement and nearness of God (Luke 5:19) additionally as an indifferent constrain or power (Luke 6:18, Luke 9:47), and, for instance, as “the Spirit of Jesus” (Acts 17:8). Thus, for Luke, Jesus was the man primarily for Spirit. Also, in getting to be and being guided as devotees of Jesus, experience of Spirit was double essential than writings, conventions, or the group.
Q#:9
St. Stephen’s discourse to the Sanhedrin in Acts Section 7 is the longest speech in Acts of Apostles. A few researchers have raised the complaint that it appears to be impossible that such a lengthy conversation could be repeated in the content of Acts and that Luke manufactured the talk. In any case, some Biblical researchers have found that Stephen’s discourse demonstrates a distinct identity behind it. Besides, he says that altogether not quite the same as the five kerygmatic addresses of St. Subside or the one kerygmatic talk of St. Paul or the records of St. Paul’s transformation encounter that are additionally contained in the Book of Acts. The talks credited to these three men demonstrate unmistakable qualities, each not quite the same as those of the other two men. It is conceivable that every discourse recorded by a recorder.
Q#:10
The New Testament captures Paul picking three missionary assignments that spread the message of Christ to the Asia Minor’s as well as the entire of Europe. The witness Paul was a knowledgeable, driving Jew named Saul. Living at Jerusalem soon after Christ’s demise and revival, he did his best to devastate Christian’s church. He took part in the operations of the first Christian, Stephen (Acts 8:55–8:5). On the approach to the Damascus to discover and detain more Christians, and Paul met with the Lord. He apologized, turning in the confidence to Jesus Christ. After this experience, he endeavored to influence Jews and Christians about his groundbreaking change. Numerous questioned and avoided him. Christians, for example, Barnabas, be that as it may, acknowledged and talked up for him. Paul and Barnabas got to be preacher accomplices.
Q#:11
Transformation is the heart of the Christian experience. Transformation is best portrayed in the New Testament in the Letters of St. Paul, and in light of current circumstances – nobody unvarying more interesting change than St. Paul making a course for Damascus! As recorded in the Gospel of Mark, Jesus himself called for transformation when he reported “the kingdom of God is within reach. Apologize and have confidence in the gospel” (Mark 1:15). 2. The Bible is loaded with figures who trespassed, got to be apologetic, and experienced transformation, for example, Peter, Paul, and Mary Magdalene. Subside denied three times that he was an Apostle of Christ amid the Lord’s Passion; when the chicken crowd, he went out and “sobbed sharply” (Matthew 26:75).
Q#:12
The order is the investigation of the arrangement of occasions in a verifiable content, and the examination of those events with other known incidents from different sources. The Bible is a recorded archive, and a portion of evaluating the estimation of any chronicled story is the investigation of Chronology. At the point when occasions in the Bible line up with known dates affirmed outside the Bible, is proposes an abnormal state of consistent quality in the written content. Likewise, a few regions of tenet depend on subsequent declarations, as we should find on account of Gal. 2. This layout clarifies in abbreviated frame how researchers date the occasions in the service of Paul.
Q#:13
There is wide accord in current New Testament grant on a center gathering of bona fide Pauline epistles whose origin is seldom challenged: Romans, 1 and 2 Corinthians, Galatians, Philippians, 1 Thessalonians, and Philemon. A few extra letters bearing Paul’s name are debated among researchers, specifically Ephesians, Colossians, 2 Thessalonians, 1 and 2 Timothy, and Titus. The insightful conclusion is firmly separated on whether Ephesians and Colossians are the letters of Paul; be that as it may, the staying four–2 Thessalonians, and also the three known as the Pastoral epistles–have been named pseud epigraphical works by most basic researchers.
Q#:14
The Mysticism of Paul the Apostle is it could be said a partner volume to Schweitzer’s The Mystery of the Kingdom of God. Pretty much as the Kingdom of God contends that Jesus’ perspective was based upon and adapted by eschatology. It showed a (the desire of the up and coming end of time), Schweitzer in Paul the Apostle dismembers Paul’s religious philosophy and reasons that it too was eschatological, with none of the Hellenistic impacts which numerous different translators have ascribed to it. He convincingly contends that Paul’s eschatology based upon Jewish convictions which were translated by Jesus and after that re-deciphered by Paul. Q#:15.
In the NT letter ascribed to Paul, the individual and work of Christ are focal. Paul’s essential advantages are the cross and revival of Jesus (e.g., the 1 Corinthians 2:18; 2:1; 15:4-9). Just a couple references to the adages and exercises of Jesus before his execution show up. In such manner, the Pauline corpus is much the same as other NT epistles, the Acts of the Apostles and the Apocalypse. These too contain a couple of citations of or inferences to Jesus’ lessons and deeds amid his essential service.
Work cited
Neyrey, Jerome H. Christ is community: the christologies of the New Testament. Vol. 13. Michael Glazier, 1985.