False Gospels | The Psalms are the heart and center of the sacred Scripture. |
True | God is the main author of Sacred Scripture. |
False Adam | The Covenant of God with humankind began with Moses. |
True | Jesus is the new and everlasting Covenant. |
True | By living the Ten Commandments we live the Covenan God entered into. |
True | The four Gospels have some important things in common, but each emphasizes different details from Jesus' Life. |
False Gospels | The Evangelists are at the center and heart of God's plan of creation and salvation. |
True | The center of all four Gospels is the passion, death, and resurrection of Jesus. |
True | All Four Gospel writers use Resurrection appearances to share the good news of God revealed in Jesus. |
True | The Four Gospels are the center and heart of all the Sacred Scriptures. |
False Fast | Mark's literary treatment conveys to us a Jesus who is slow to act. |
True | When Simon's mother-in-law is healed by Jesus, she gets up and begins to serve them. |
True | The Church continues the mission and the work of Jesus. |
True | Jesus' ministry of teaching and healing leads up to the Resurrection. |
True | Mark portrays Jesus teaching in the synagogue as leaving people amazed. |
True | In Mark's Gospel every part of Jesus' ministry up to his entrance into Jerusalem leads to his death. |
True | The Structure of Matthew's Gospel suggests that Jesus is the new Moses |
True | Matthew's Gospel deliberately parallels the Torah. |
False Law | The Torah is a summary of the Beatitudes. |
True | The Beatitudes are a list of the attitudes and actions of those who live the new Law revealed in Jesus. |
True | Vatican II helped the church better understand itself and its mission. |
False Galilee | Jesus began his public ministry by preaching in Jerusalem. |
True | In Luke's Gospel the city of Jerusalem and the Temple in Jerusalem stand together as a symbol of the Jewish people. |
True | Luke's Gospel teaches that all people are recipients of God's promise of salvation. |
True | The Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles teach that God's plan of salvation is for all people. |
True | Luke's Gospel contains many stories about lost people and lost things. |
True | John's Gospel uses many images and phrases from the Old Testament. |
True | Rooted in the Old Testament the words |
False Jewish | Saint John wrote for the Gentile community, struggling to reconcile its own beliefs with faith in Jesus. |
False Glory | The Book of Signs recounts the Passion, Death, and Resurrection of Jesus. |
True | The Book of Glory begins when Jesus' hour has come. |
True | St. Paul has strong feelings for the church in Philippi. |
True | The Philippians were discouraged because of the hostility of their non-Christian neighbors. |
True | The Philippians were at odds with one another, and St. Paul had to admonish them. |
False 3 | The Letter to the Philippians was probably a combination of four different letters St. Paul wrote to the Church in Philippi. |
False Rome | St. Paul may have written a portion of the Letter to the Philippians from prison in Jerusalem. |
True | The Book of Revelation names John as its author. |
True | The Book of Revelation uses allegory to help us predict when the end of the world will come. |
False Transform Of All That Is Now Good Into Something Even Better | The Book of Revelation's greatest vision is the calamities at the end of time. |
True | The Book of Revelations teaches the time is coming |
True | The plan of God for humanity will be summed up and achieved in the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. |
True | The Last word in the story of the world will belong to God. |