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28 Cards in this Set
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List the four challenges presented by 1 Peter.
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1. authorship & date
2. perspective on sin & suffering 3. teaching that Christ preached to the spirits after his death 4. teaching on order of the household |
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1 Peter's two major themes concern __ and __.
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Christology & Spiritual development
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What two distinctives does Jobes point to in the 1 Peter Haustafeln?
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1. Peter addresses the slave and the wife, which were not typically done by Greek moral philosophers.
2. Peter rejects the cultural expectation that a slave or wife must worship their master/husband’s god. |
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How many significant textual variants are found in 1 Peter?
How many are highly significant for interpretation? |
“When all manuscript evidence is considered, there are about forty notable textual variants in 1 Peter, but none significantly change the sense of the text.” (293)
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What "popular view" does 1 Peter correct?
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That because Jesus suffered Christians don't have to. Suffering is part of the Christian walk.
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What was Peter’s view of the relationship between the old Testament prophets and the gospel of Jesus Christ?
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The prophets were foretelling the coming of the Messiah.
Peter states it was the Spirit of Christ who inspired their prophecies, and that their message was not for them but for Christians living after the Messiah. What was taught by Christian evangelists were the fuller revelation of Old Testament prophecies. |
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State and contrast the three approaches to the difficult passage in 1 Peter 3:18-22
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1. “Christ preaches through Noah—In his spiritual realm of existence, Christ went and preached through Noah to those who are now spirits in the prison of hell.”
2. “Christ proclaims Victory by his resurrection and Ascension- In [this realm of the Spirit], Christ ascended [“went”] and, in so doing, proclaimed the final defeat to the spirits in prison who were the fallen angels and who in times past disobeyed when the patience of God waited in the days of Noah while the ark was being built” 3. “Christ descends in Hell (Apostles’ Creed)—Christ’ spirit descended [into hell] on Easter Saturday and preached grace to [and released] the imprisoned souls who in times past disobeyed....” (J, 313) |
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In what ways can a minority group relate to the dominant society (hint: think the 3 A’s)?
What ways have you observed by which minorities protect their distinctive identity? |
1. Assimilation: the degree of social integration, including social interaction and practices.
2. Acculturation: the degree of linguistic, educational, and ideological achievement. 3. Accommodation: whether to embrace or resist the surrounding culture. (J, 337) |
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What principles does Peter’s “household code” exemplify?
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“Peter both upheld social expectations and at the same time subverted them with the good news of Jesus Christ...” (J, 342)
Subverts—Addressing both slave and wife as moral agents (341). Uses “unjust” when referring to treatment of slaves thus elevating their status (341). Does not tell the husband to govern or control his wife (341). |
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What is the role of suffering in Christian life today and how it is related to the suffering of Jesus?
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“Jesus was misunderstood, slandered, rejected and pursued by his enemies to a death on a cross. So the Christian who follows in his steps should not be surprised to find himself or herself in those same crosshairs, experiencing the same kinds of reactions by others." (J, 343-344)
“...Christians in every place and time in history should not be surprised if they experience hostility and rejection from a society that has rejected God.” (J, 344) |
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What message did the author of 2 Peter apparently most wish to impart on the threshold of his death?
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Seeing the danger of the instinctual licentious lifestyles that disregard God’s judgment, Peter reinforces what he knows of Jesus and God’s judgment based not on his imagination but his experience as an eyewitness—the reality of God’s sovereignty in creation and final judgment; so that his readers remain established in the truth they have & at the coming of Jesus Christ.
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What does 2 Peter say about…1) God; 2) Christ; 3) Holy Spirit
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1. God—Sovereignty as Creator & Judge; Patience toward the disobedient.
2. Christ—Will return and/to judge. 3. Holy Spirit—Agent of divine inspiration of prophecy. |
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How does the reception history of 2 Peter affect your view of the book as Scripture?
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“In comparison to the books rejected by the early church, it has ‘incomparably better support for its inclusion’ in the canon.” (J, 388)
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What did John want "the people he pastored to live with"?
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“The confidence of knowing they had the truth about eternal life.”
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What do "the verbs of sensory experience" emphasize?
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“A physical reality that grounds what the author is about to write.”
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Why did Eusebius want to "find a way around" the apostolic authorship of Revelation?
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Eusebius disliked the the book of Revelation—Eusebius misread Papias’s writings as referring to two Johns whom Eusebius distinguished as John the Apostle and John the Elder—He believed John the Apostle wrote the Gospel of John, and that John the Elder wrote Revelation.
By attributing John the Elder (not, John the Apostle) as author to Revelation, Eusebius gained a basis for dismissing it because it would lack apostolic authority. |
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How many reasons does the author (of Revelation?) give for writing, and what are they?
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8 reasons:
1. that you may know that you have eternal life 2. to make our joy complete 3. so that you will not sin 4. because your sins have been forgiven 5. because you know the Father 6. because you know him who is from the beginning 7. because you are strong, and the word of God lives in you, and you have overcome the evil one 8. because you do know the truth. (J, 414) |
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What "is the sign that a believer has passed from death to life"?
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Genuine love rooted in the truth. (J, 429)
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"Reading 2 and 3 John is like opening a _____."
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Time capsule— "...and realizing from its contents how connected we are to the past because of our human nature and shared beliefs with the early church.”
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Why can "taking sides in arguments between Christians" be unavoidable?
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It is unavoidable when the truth of the gospel is at stake.
Walking in truth and love means doing nothing to assist, and everything to hinder, the spread of lies about Jesus Christ. (J, 441) |
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Third John will "disabuse" the reader of what "romantic ideas"?
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The idea that everyone got along in perfect harmony in the early days of the Christian church.
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Who was the courier of 3 John?
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Demetrius
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What does the anonymity of 1-3 John suggest?
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That the author was well-known by his readers and possibly John the Apostle or a close associate of the twelve.
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What has "plagued" the church "since its infancy"?
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Immorality and confusion within the church (how to live; which to join)
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Why did Domitian question Judas' grandsons, according to Eusebius?
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Domitian was afraid of the coming of the Christ and wanted to know more about it.
Also, because Jude’s grandsons were leaders in the church (like Jude before them) who could answer such questions. |
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What is "no longer possible to dismiss"?
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That the family and twelve disciples of Jesus were incapable of writing the Greek found in the New Testament books.
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"Jude's letter appears to be an early condemnation" of whom?
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“...of those within the churches teaching that sexual immorality was consistent with freedom from the Jewish law that Christianity preached.” (J, 244)
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Why does Jude "most likely" quote 1 Enoch?
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“Jude uses these writings only to make a point, much the same way a preacher today might refer to Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings to make a point...Jude uses this material as a summary of his denunciation of the false Christians who will be convicted at the divine judgement for ‘all the ungodly acts they have committed in their ungodliness, and of all the defiant words ungodly sinners have spoken against him.’....Jude is most likely quoting 1 Enoch not because he considered it Scripture but because of its familiarity and value to his readers, perhaps especially to the false Christians.” (J, 257-258)
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