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NT Exam 4
Study guide for New Testament exam four
Term | Definition |
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Paul's 3 reasons for writing Romans | Missionary, Didactic, Helpful |
Missionary | To enlist help in the Gospel; Paul wants to make Rome a new missionary base |
Didactic | To teach the Gospel of righteousness by faith |
Helpful | to call disunity into harmony in the peace of Christ (Christ is the unifier) |
Diatribe | asking hypothetical questions and answering them; writing style of Paul in Romans |
Romans 1:16-17 | thesis statement of Romans |
Message of Romans' thesis statement | not ashamed of the gospel; God brings salvation to Jews and Gentiles who believe; gospel reveals the righteousness of God; the righteous will live by faith |
2 positions Paul gives qualifications for | Deacons and overseers |
Philippians 4:1-20 | The final appeal to joy and thanks for gifts in the prison epistles occurs where |
The prison epistles | Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians and Philemon |
Romans | Paul's longest letter; written from Ephesus |
True | the pastoral epistles do not naturally fit into the timeline of Acts |
True | Paul is considered the mentor to his mentees Timothy and Titus; Paul teaches them |
Philemon | major member at the church of Colossae (church of Colossians); was a slaveowner, was wealthy and probably gave Paul financial gifts |
True | Philemon was written to the wealthy church member/slave owner; it was a plea for the release of Philemon's servant/slave (for love's sake) |
True | Paul could order Philemon to release Onesimus, but he does not; he refers to Onesimus as his "son" |
Onesimus | slave/servant of Philemon who got close to Paul in prison; Paul wants him welcomed back by Philemon as a brother rather than a slave |
Philemon | smallest of Paul's books |
1 Timothy 3:8-13 | where the qualifications for the deacon are located |
1 Timothy (3:1-7) | where the qualifications for the overseer are located |
Paul | who gives the qualifications for deacons/overseers? |
Philippians | letter to a church that Paul deeply loved based on how it was written; Paul's "warmest" letter |
Philippians 2:5-11 | where is the Christ hymn/psalm located (Jesus humbling himself by becoming a man) |
Why Paul wrote the Christ hymn | it helped with disunity; helped to unify people by taking the mind of Christ; encouraged people to have the humble mindset of Jesus |
Prison epistles | Paul is writing under house arrest in Rome to church in Philippi in which letters |
True | Ephesians & Colossians are strikingly similar in context, order, and wording; the authorship of Ephesians & Colossians is debated |
Ephesians 2:1-10 | key text in Ephesians; 8-10 are "gospel in a nutshell" (dead in sin but alive by grace through faith through Christ) |
The Pastoral Epistles | 1 & 2 timothy and Titus; were written to these pastors |
True | The pastorals are the most debated letters to be understood as Pauline (chronological, theological, linguistic, and ecclesiastical reasons |
Titus | takes place on the Island of Crete; churches are being set up all along the island |
Titus 1:5-9 | qualifications for an elder take place in which book and verse (similar to qualifications in Timothy) |
True | Ephesians is considered a circular letter |
Message of Philemon | brotherhood of all believers; God's love extending past boundaries between enslaved and free people |
True | Paul wrote Philippians to express his love and to encourage them to continue in partnership with the gospel |