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April 2nd, 2010

You may now compare your answers to the “right” answers.  JK.  If history offers a precedent, some of you will quibble with a couple of these.  Teach your own Confirmation class. 

 

False

1.      Christians worship three Gods: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. (One God, three persons.)

 

False

2.      God can do anything.  (God cannot sin.  Correctly phrased:  “God can do anything he wants to do.”

 

False

3.      Most people have sinned and fall short of God’s perfect standards.  (That would be all people, Romans 3:23.)

 

False

4.      The fifth book of the Old Testament is spelled Dueteronomy. (Deuteronomy.)

True

 

5.      Pastor Bob once set the table on fire in the church sanctuary during a Maundy Thursday service. (But Jesse Sloane came through with the foot washing water.)

True

 

6.      The Bible is the Word of God and the words of men.

True

 

7.      The Old Testament was mostly written in Hebrew.

 

False

8.      According to Romans 10:9, the way to be saved is to believe that God raised Jesus from the dead and then try your best to live a good life. (Look it up if you need to.)

 

False

9.      The New Testament was mostly written in Latin. (Greek)

True

 

10.  Jesus claimed he was the Son of God, meaning he is equal with God.

 

False

11.  Jesus always confessed his sins. (Jesus never sinned.)

 

False

12.  The Apostles’ Creed says we believe in the Roman Catholic church. (The holy catholic church – meaning the universal Christian church.)

 

False

13.  The Holy Spirit could be called the “force” of God and the proper pronoun for the Holy Spirit is “it.” (The Holy Spirit is a person, and Jesus always used the pronoun “he.”)

True

 

14.  The main reason we pray is to show God we are grateful for salvation.

True

 

15.  The Holy Spirit is equal with the Father and the Son.

 

False

16.  The meaning of “Amen” in a prayer is “the end.”  (It means “so be it.”)

 

False

17.  True Christians always keep the Ten Commandments.  (Nope.  No one can do that when we understand the meaning of the commandments.)

True

 

18.  The birthday of the church came on the day of Pentecost.

True

 

19.  Early Christians were accused of cannibalism.

 

False

20.  October 31, 1517, Martin Luther King, Jr. nailed 95 theses on the chapel door at Wittenberg, beginning a protest against the Catholic church.  (That would be Martin Luther.)

True

 

21.  The last three books of the Old Testament, backwards, are Malachi, Zechariah, Haggai.

True

 

22.  We should come to God as if he were a judge, a father, and a friend.

True

 

23.  Pastor Bob is definitely the coolest pastor I have ever known (except for Pastor Bill and Pastor Paul).

True

 

24.  The “canyon of adolescence” is that most teenagers struggle with self-esteem.

 

False

25.  IHS (in the sanctuary) is the first three Greek letters in “Christ.” (Close – but XP is the first two letters in “Christ.”  IHS would be the first three Greek letters in “Jesus.”

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