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Theo I Test 3
Question | Answer |
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Testimony | A personal persuasive story |
It is important that non-Christians wrote about Jesus because... | it helps to prove that he really existed. They weren't believers so they have no reason to lie. |
Who is St. Luke? | The third Gospel writer, one of the synoptics, and a saint. |
St. Luke's ethnicity is... | Greek, he was born as a non-Jewish, Gentile. |
St. Luke's religion is... | after he learned about Jesus, he converted to Catholic Christianity and was for the rest of his life. |
St. Luke's language (what he spoke and wrote in)... | Greek |
St. Luke wrote his Gospel for... | non-Jewish people to show that Jesus came to save everyone. |
Did St. Luke know Jesus? | No, Jesus was back in heaven before Luke became Christian. |
How did St. Luke learn the stories about Jesus that he wrote in his Gospel? | He learned his stories about Jesus mainly from the Virgin Mary and St. Paul. |
What was his job? | Before him became an evangelist, he was trained as a doctor. |
Synoptic Gospel | from Greek, means "seeing together," refers to Matthew, Mark, and Luke because their stories are so similar |
Three stages of the Gospels being written... | 1. Jesus lived and taught, 2. the Apostles spread the teachings orally, 3. the Gospels were written down. |
A.D. | Latin for Anno Domini, means "in the year of our Lord". It is how we count time since the birth of Christ |
Abba | means "Daddy" in Hebrew, Jesus was the only and the first person to call God that, and he invites us to also |
Amen | means "It is so" or "I believe", Jesus used that word to get peoples attention, and they recognized that he spoke with authority |
Parable | It is a story that teaches a lesson, usually the characters are symbols for something else. Jesus told lots of them |
Name two parables... | the Good Samaritan and the Prodigal Son |
Martyr | someone who dies for their faith/ for Christ. All Christian martyrs go to heaven |
Saint | anyone who gets to heaven. There are also canonized saints, these are saints that the Catholic church has discovered (through proof) are really in heaven |
Three important themes in Jesus' teaching... | 1. Love, 2.Sacrifice, 3.Forgiveness |
Evangelist | a person who spreads the "Good News" of Jesus, evangel means Good News, Jesus is the Good News for all of us |