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20 Cards in this Set
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Who is the author of 1 John?
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The letter does not state directly
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What does the style and vocabulary bear strong resemblance to?
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The Gospel of John
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The early church was virtually ____________ in assigning it to John
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unanimous
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Where were all three of John's epistles probably written to?
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Churches in Asia Minor
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Where was John probably at when he wrote his epistles?
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Ephesus
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What are the dates for John's epistles?
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80-95 AD
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Can this be known with certainty?
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no
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What is the first thing 1 John warns against?
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The spread of Gnosticism
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What was especially dangerous about gnosticism?
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Jesus Christ was not fully man, just a manifestation of God, or pure Spirit
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What was gnostic teaching based on?
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the philosophical speculation that spirit was good and matter evil
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What's the result of spirit being good and matter evil?
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God, as pure spirit, had to be protected from contact with evil matter by a series of "emanations."
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In the later, fully developed heresy, how many emanations were there?
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40
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What was the most tainted of the emanations?
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Demiurge, or the creator of this world
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What are the two things that Gnostics had no place for?
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1) Incarnation
2) Resurrection |
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What was the second purpose of 1 John?
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Provide assurance of salvation
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What is the third major theme?
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Love one another
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What is the fourth major theme?
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Proper Christian behavior
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What were the two extremes gnosticism lead to?
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1) Asceticism
2) Antinomianism |
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What was asceticism?
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The total denial of the body leading to rigorous, and ridiculous restrictions and limiations
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What was antinomianism?
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Regards the body as hopelessly evil and indulged in all sorts of sexual and gluttonous debaucheries, even while maintaining that the spirit was in the process of being saved and purified
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