March 11, 2007

 T or F

              1.  Jesus was profoundly disturbed by the hypocrisy he saw in religious people and in "organized religion". (Matthew 23)

             2.  Jesus had more to say about the dangers of wealth and materialism than he did about prayer.

              3.  In the gospel of Luke Jesus seems to favor the poor and the outcasts m more than the privileged.

              4. Jesus never made a mistake. (Matthew 15:21-28)

              5.  Jesus got angrier at the political abuses by the Romans than at anything else.

              6. Jesus is portrayed in more human terms in the gospels of Matthew,  Mark and Luke than in the gospel of John.

                7. Jesus never got impatient or upset with his disciples. (Mark 8:14-21)

              8. Jesus is best described as meek and mild. (John 2:13-16)

              9. People in our church have more trouble accepting the divinity of Jesus than the humanity of Jesus.

             10. Jesus was a descendant of King David through his father Joseph.

             11. After he was raised to life on Easter, Jesus became a Christian.

             12. Jesus was not trying to start a new religion but was calling his fellow Jews to the best of their tradition, just as the Old Testament prophets had done before him.

             13. Jesus was called a prophet by people who knew him best and saw what he was doing. He was firmly in the tradition of prophets like Isaiah and Jeremiah in the Hebrew Bible.

              14. Jesus' family was, by socioeconomic standards, working class.

              15. Jesus thought about not going through with his mission as Messiah and even asked God to let him not go through with it. (Luke 22:39-44)

             16. "Christ" is Jesus' last name.

             17. Paul was one of Jesus' twelve disciples.

             18.  The four gospels were written by four of Jesus' disciples.

             19. Jesus was greatly concerned about sexual ethics and about homosexuality.

             20. Jesus was an only child. (Mark 6:3)

             21.  Miracles were a major part of Jesus' earthly ministry.

             22. Jesus initially saw his ministry to be just among his fellow Jews.    (Matthew 15:21-28)

            23. Jesus was himself probably a member of the Pharisee sect of Judaism.

            24. Jesus' understanding of his mission and ministry gradually unfolded for him in prayer and in his attention to God.

            25. Jesus said he came not to bring peace but a sword.

            26. Jesus was most concerned about getting people to heaven.

            27. We do not know anything about Jesus' life from the time he was twelve until the time he began his ministry at thirty years of age.

             28. Jesus' goal was to get people to worship him.

             29. Jesus said that he was God.

             30. Jesus felt alone and abandoned by God when he was dying on the cross.   (Mark 15:33-37)

             31. Jesus' teachings were so subversive and so upsetting to the status quo that he would probably be rejected today even by people who say they are Christians.