| Lesson 5 | CHRISTIAN Evidences
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Book Lesson 16-19 |
1. According to Joseph Fletcher, what is situation ethics?
2. What is antinomianism? What is legalism?
3. How does the book support the position that the Bible presents an absolute standard of right and wrong? p. 57
4. What is Biblical Archeology? What, specifically, are some of the items which archeologists look for?
5. We are told that the purpose of archeology is not to prove the Bible true. What, then, is the purpose with regard to the Bible?
6. Choose section IV. or V. on page 62, and give a brief account of the archeological finds that support the biblical records.
7. Ernest Renan, an unbeliever, visited the land where Jesus lived. Describe the impact of this visit on him.
8. Identify some “Manners and Customs of Palestine.”
9. Define “canon” as used in this text. What is the Septuagint? On what basis does the author, Ferrell Jenkins, reject the Apochrypha as canonical?
10. What important find during the 20th century “provides new knowledge of the history, literature and religion of the intertestamental period”? Does it contain any fragments of the Old Testament books? Explain.
11. How many handwritten manuscripts of the New Testament have been preserved? How does the quality of the New Testament manuscripts compare with those of Sophocles, Horace, and other ancient writers?