Quotes (Theme 1)

Question 1

What quotes support ‘redaction criticism’?

Answer 1

• “…the collection, arrangement, editing and modification of traditional material”
• “Herods order to kill children under two years old is not supported by ant independent historical source”
• “That the birth narratives cannot be accepted as historical as they stand would be all but universally conceded”

Question 2

What quotes support the ‘doctrine of incarnation’?

Answer 2

• “…begotten not made, of one being with the father”
• “He is Emmanuel- God with us. In this sense his acts are Gods”

Question 3

What quotes support the ‘kenotic model’?

Answer 3

• “Who, though he was in the form of God…emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, being born in human likeness”

Question 4

What quotes support Matthew’s version of Jesus’ birth story?

Answer 4

• “She was found to be with child of the Holy Spirit
• “Behold, a virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and his name shall be called Emmanuel”

Question 5

What quotes support Lukes version of Jesus’ birth story?

Answer 5

• “the babe leaped in her womb”

Question 6

What quotes support John 20 account of the resurrection?

Answer 6

• ‘He saw and believed’
• ‘Whom Jesus loved
• ‘An apostle to the apostles

Question 7

What quotes support John 21 account of the resurrection?

Answer 7

• ‘Jesus appeared again to his disciples, by the Sea of Galilee’
• ‘Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed’

Question 8

What quotes support Paul’s 1 Corinthians 15?

Answer 8

• ‘Christ has been raised from the dead’
• ‘Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die’
• ‘that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God’

Question 9

What quotes support Rudolph Bultmann’s view of the resurrection?

Answer 9

• ‘what is decisive is not that Jesus came to life again but that he is, for you, the risen one’

Question 10

What quotes support the Bible as a guide to every day living?

Answer 10

• ‘You search the scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; ad it is they that testify on my behalf’
• ‘I delight in your decrees’
• ‘Your word is a lamp at my feet, a light in my path’

Question 11

What quotes support the bible as a source of moral advice?

Answer 11

• ‘All scripture is inspired by God and is used for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, so that everyone who belongs to God may be proficient, equipped for every day work’
• ‘Keep his commandments’
• ‘Will bring every deed into judgment’
• ‘Be merciful’
• ‘Forgive’

Question 12

What quotes support the bible as a source of the teaching on the meaning and purpose of life?

Answer 12

• ‘Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule…over all the creatures…’
• ‘Enjoy life’

Question 13

What quotes support the bible as a source of authority?

Answer 13

• ‘for our instruction, so that by steadfastness and by our encouragement of the scriptures we might have hope’
• ‘God is ur refuge and strength’
• ‘Life is more than food, and…clothes’