Exam 18: General Letters on Faith and Behavior

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The Torah required a priest to offer animal sacrifices to atone for the people's sin.According to Hebrews,Jesus is both the priest and the sacrifice.It is argued in Hebrews that this both fulfills the Torah's requirements and

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Which of the catholic epistles criticizes Jewish-Christian groups within the church-wealthy Christians who snub poorer ones,fail to share material possessions,engage in worldly competition,and even exploit fellow believers of the laboring class?

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According to James,what produces peace and harmony?

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All the rituals,sacrifices,and correct behavior taught in the Torah,and even the architecture (the Tabernacle,Herod's Temple,etc.),are considered shadows or copies of what?

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The epistles differ from Paul's "genuine" letters in that they are addressed to individual congregations.

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James was known to his fellow Israelites as "James the Righteous" and had a high reputation with Christians.

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What form of writing is Paul known for?

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2 Peter (probably the last-written book in the canon)reaffirms Christianity's apocalyptic vision that however long the Parousia is delayed,Christians must live as if

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Expiation means

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The catholic epistles are so named because they must never be translated out of the Latin.

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Which author is alone among New Testament writers in attempting to show how Christ's sacrificial death links the two opposing realms of perishable matter and eternal spirit?

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According to James,what one believes and has faith in is evidenced by

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Seven of the eight canonical writings situated between the book of Hebrews and Revelation in the New Testament are known as

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The author of Hebrews is the only New Testament writer to define

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Readers of the Johannine letters,with their exhortations to express love interspersed with scorching denunciations of former fellow Christians,may come away with mixed feelings.

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The theological importance of 2 Peter lies in the author's attempt to explain why God allows evil to continue and to reassert the belief in a close Parousia.

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1 Peter recommends that when a Christian is suffering unjustly,he or she must call upon the Holy Spirit to smite the oppressor.

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The book of James is classified as apocalyptic literature.

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Apostasy is

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Although containing only thirteen verses,2 John is a true letter.

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