Christian Doctrine - Pop Quiz.

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Hail Caesar: Julius, Augustus, Tiberius, Nero, Trajan, etc.
How many Roman Emperors 'took' the title of 'Caesar' ?

20 Caesars ?
40 Caesars ?
60 Caesars ?
80 Caesars ?

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History records 80 Caesars.

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What do Christians know ?

1 - Life does not stink - true or false ?
2 - Optimism is best - true or false ?
3 - Death is natural - true or false ?

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1 - False - Christians know that this life is tough; it stinks.
2 - False - Christians are not optimists; they have joy and confidence in God.
3 - False - Christians know that dying and death are not 'natural' occurrences.

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What do Christians know ?

Their own propaganda exposes them as jebus' frauds & rejects (1 John 3:6)

Their own propaganda also exposes and reveals their true identity = Agents of their Devil (1 John 3:8) Story book

Their own propaganda is founded upon MYTHs!

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Who killed Jesus of Nazareth ?

1 - Pontius Pilate, Emperor Tiberius' prefect of the Roman province of Judaea ?

2 - The High Priest, Caiaphas, and the Jews ?

2 - The Roman soldiers ?

4 - Other ?

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Other - Jesus was killed by (Almighty God) his Father.

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"But the serpent said to the woman, ?You will not surely die. For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.?" - Genesis 3.

What was the nature of the serpent's lie ?

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The nature of the serpent's (Satan's) lie was twofold: you can't trust God; you can't live for God.

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"But the serpent said to the woman, ?You will not surely die. For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.?" - Genesis 3.

What was the nature of the serpent's lie ?

The Story book Serpent didn't lie!

They didn't die that same Day in any way!

Story book God was the liar! 

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"So Jesus said ... and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free." - John 8.

What is the truth and the Christian 'life-giving' message ?

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The Christian life-giving truth is the 'good news' about what Jesus Christ has done; not what he said, but what he has done: Christ shed his blood to save others.

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The Christian life-giving truth is the 'good news' about what Jesus Christ has done; not what he said, but what he has done: Christ shed his blood to save others.

Regarding Story book christ!, e.g. -

There is no operation of Divine wisdom that has been so completely misapprehended and misrepresented as the shedding of the blood of Christ. Popular preaching brings it down to a level with the sacrifices of idolatrous superstition, by which wrathful deities are supposed to be placated by the blood of a substitutionary victim. Christ is represented as having paid our debts?as having died instead of us?as having stood in our room like a substitute in military service, or like a man rushing to the scaffold where a criminal is about to be executed, and offering to die instead of him (a favourite illustration in the evangelical pulpit).

Such views are contradicted by even the most superficial facts of the case; for if Christ died instead of us, then we ought not to die (which we do); and if he paid the penalty naturally due from us?death?he ought not to have risen (which he did). And if his death was of the character alleged, the redeeming power lay in itself and not in the resurrection that followed; whereas Paul declares to the Corinthians that, notwithstanding the death of Christ, ?if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain: ye are yet in your sins? (1- Corinthians 15:17).

Further, if Christ has paid our debts, our debts are not ?forgiven,? for it would be out of place for a creditor to talk of having forgiven a debt which someone else has paid for the debtor; and thus is blotted out the very first feature of the gospel of the grace of God?the forgiveness of our sins ?through the forbearance of God? (Romans 3:25 ). (Robert Roberts)

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Is God's salvation a reward for those righteous folks among us ?

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Salvation is not a reward for the righteous,
Salvation is a gift to the guilty.

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Regarding Story book christ!, e.g. -

Who or what is this "Story book" ?
Who or what is this "christ" ?

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Regarding Story book christ!, e.g. -

Who or what is this "Story book" ?

Yours appears to be the one founded upon MYTHS like Prov. 30:25  & 30

Who or what is this "christ" ?

The fraud mentioned in your Story book, along with other MYTHICAL persons such as Moses, Pauly, apostles to name a few!

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Who or what is this "christ" ?

The fraud mentioned in your Story book, along with other MYTHICAL persons such as Moses, Pauly, apostles to name a few!

What "fraud" ?
Who or what is this "Story book" with the "Mythical persons" ?

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Hard news comes to us in the form of stories: about politics, crime, taxes, war, the weather, etc.

Soft news comes to us in the form of ideas, human interest and heartwarming stories, consumer tips, etc..

In the first-century Mediterranean world, was Christianity (The Way) preached as hard or soft news ?

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Christianity was not heralded as 'how to live better' (soft news), but The Way was preached as hard news, and the world-changing event that it was.

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What is the essence of sin ?

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The essence of sin is the lie - consider the first insinuation and first lie:

"Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made.
He said to the woman, ?Did God actually say, ?You shall not eat of any tree in the garden??? And the woman said to the serpent, ?We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, but God said, ?You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.?? But the serpent said to the woman, ?You will not surely die. For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.? - Genesis 3.

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What is 'Second Temple Judaism' ?

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"Second Temple Judaism is Judaism between the construction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem, c. 515 BCE, and its destruction by the Romans in 70 CE. The development of the Hebrew Bible canon, the synagogue, Jewish apocalyptic expectations for the future, and Christianity, can all be traced to the Second Temple period." - Google.

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What is the essence of sin ?

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The essence of sin is the lie - consider the first insinuation and first lie:

"Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made.
He said to the woman, ?Did God actually say, ?You shall not eat of any tree in the garden??? And the woman said to the serpent, ?We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, but God said, ?You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.?? But the serpent said to the woman, ?You will not surely die. For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.? - Genesis 3.

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The Serpent in your holey  Story book spoke the Truth, they didn't die in any way that same day they partook!

In fact also Eve was NOT forbidden access, only Story book Adam was! (Gen. 2:16-17) holey bible Story book

Hence the first lie was made by Story book God! (Gen. 2:17) holey bible Story book fatal to eyes & Co. 

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"The Code of Hammurabi is a well-preserved Babylonian law code of ancient Mesopotamia, dating back to about 1754 BC. It is one of the oldest deciphered writings of significant length in the world." - Google.

The Code of Hammurabi consists of how many laws ?

82 laws ?
182 laws ?
282 laws ?
382 laws ?

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"The code consists of 282 laws, with scaled punishments, adjusting "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth"  as graded depending on social status, of slave versus free man. Nearly one-half of the code deals with matters of contract, establishing, for example, the wages to be paid to an ox driver or a surgeon ..." - Wikipedia.

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Was bible Story book jebus the son of a God, OR as some say, the son of a Jewish wood-worker?

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Who was ancient Israel's greatest enemy ?

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Israel's greatest enemy was the false prophet.

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Who was ancient Israel's greatest enemy ?

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Israel's greatest enemy was the false prophet.

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The biblical God(s) Story book human devised propaganda, that thought their lies would seduce the Jews & everyone else! (e.g. Prov. 30:25 & 30) Holey bible

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"And he ... showed me the holy city Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God ... and I saw no temple in the city ..." - Revelation 21.

Why is there no temple in the "holy city" in the Apostle John's vision of the New Jerusalem ?

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God is the temple.

"And I saw no temple in the city, for its temple is the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb." - Revelation 21.

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"SECOND COMING, the future return of Christ to the earth. A prominent doctrine of Christology, the predicted Second Advent of Christ is implied in hundreds of Old Testament prophecies ..." - The Encyclopedia of the Bible.

What are some of the purposes of the second coming ?

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To get rid of God's enemies: sin, death, Satan, etc.
To establish a new order.
To resurrect the dead.
To deliver the church.
To judge all people.

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Taking a page out of 'natural theology', what are some of the considered 'rational' proofs for God's existence ?

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Christological proofs.
Cosmological proofs.
Mental proofs.
Moral proofs.
Ontological proofs.
Prophetic proofs.
Teleological proofs.

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"In Christianity, the Great Commission is the instruction of the resurrected Jesus Christ to his disciples to spread his teachings to all the nations of the world. The most famous version of the Great Commission is in Matthew 28." - Wikipedia.

"And Jesus came and said to them, ?All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.?" - Matthew 28.

In the biblical Greek what is the 'main verb' of the Great Commission ?

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The main verb is not "go", rather it is the word, 'make' - as in "make disciples" ...

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"Revelation is the term is used to refer to the process by which God reveals knowledge of himself, his will, and his divine providence to the world of human beings." - Wikipedia.

What biblical texts frame the Christian doctrine of revelation ?

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"And we also thank God constantly for this, that when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men but as what it really is, the word of God, which is at work in you believers." - 1 Thessalonians 2.

"After this many of his disciples turned back and no longer walked with him. 67 So Jesus said to the twelve, ?Do you want to go away as well?? Simon Peter answered him, ?Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life, and we have believed, and have come to know, that you are the Holy One of God.?" - John 6.

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"Perfectionism is an ancient heresy of the distinction between two types of Christians ..." - The Aquila Report.

What is the nature of this perfectionism heresy ?

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"Perfectionism teaches that there is a class of Christians who achieve moral perfection [sinless] in this life. To be sure, credit is given to the Holy Spirit as the agent who brings total victory over sin to the Christian.

"But there is a kind of elitism in perfectionism, a feeling that those who have achieved perfection are somehow greater than other Christians. The ?perfect? ones do not officially?take credit for their state, but smugness and pride have a way of creeping in.

"The peril of perfectionism is that it seriously distorts the human mind. Imagine the contortions through which we must put ourselves to delude us into thinking that we have in fact achieved a state of sinlessness."

The Aquila Report - May 13, 2013.

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"How many things are necessary for thee to know, that thou, enjoying this comfort, mayest live and die happily?" - Question from the Heidelberg Catechism (1563).

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Three things:
The first, how great my sins and miseries are;
The second, how I may be delivered from all my sins and miseries;
The third, how I shall express my gratitude to God for such deliverance.

Answer from the Heidelberg Catechism (1563).

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Westminster Confession of Faith - The Shorter Catechism

"Question 4. - What is God ?"

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"Answer - God is a Spirit, infinite, eternal, and unchangeable, in his being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness, and truth."

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Westminster Confession of Faith - The Shorter Catechism

"Question 4. - What is God ?"

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"The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully." (Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion)

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What is the 'Just War Threory' ?

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"Just war theory (jus bellum iustum) is a doctrine, also referred to as a tradition, of military ethics studied by theologians, ethicists, policy makers, and military leaders. The purpose of the doctrine is to ensure war is morally justifiable through a series of criteria, all of which must be met for a war to be considered just." - Wikipedia.

"First, just war must be waged by a properly instituted authority such as the state. (Proper Authority is first: represents the common good: which is peace for the sake of man's true end?God.)

"Second, war must occur for a good and just purpose rather than for self-gain (for example, "in the nation's interest" is not just) or as an exercise of power (just cause: for the sake of restoring some good that has been denied. i.e. lost territory, lost goods, punishment for an evil perpetrated by a government, army, or even the civilian populace).

"Third, peace must be a central motive even in the midst of violence. (right intention: an authority must fight for the just reasons it has expressly claimed for declaring war in the first place. Soldiers must also fight for this intention). - Thomas Aquinas - Wikipedia.

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