APOL 220 Quiz Making a Case
APOL 220 Quiz: Making a Case
- The worship of a crucified and resurrected Messiah was scandalous within the first-century world and calls for an explanation.
- Which of the following inquiries about the disciples substantiate the story of the resurrection?
- Regarding morality, the authors explicitly state that science does not provide this.
- Apologetics at the Cross calls the church to:
- The gut reaction to the extreme violence the Bosnian Serb armed forces used against the Bosnian Muslims in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre reminds us that morality is
- Possible skeptical explanations for miracles include that people are lying, hallucinating, or merely wish to experience one.
- According to the authors, currently, there is far more of a consensus among scientists than one might expect that the universe had a beginning.
- When thinking about miracles, which point(s) below is valid?
- Which ancient historian provides Christianity with historical evidence for the persecution of early Christians?
- Who is quoted as saying “The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility . . . the fact that it is comprehensible is a miracle”?
- The unlikely discipleship of Paul and James provide us with a good reason to believe the resurrection happened.
- Only shallow truths can be proven absolutely; the deepest answers of life are beyond absolute proof.
- According to Luc Ferry, the materialist’s position on morality falls apart when:
- Various philosophers have argued that, in fact, if naturalism and evolution are both true, “our cognitive faculties would very likely not be reliable.”
- Due to lack of evidence, many New Testament scholars today agree that Jesus did not die at the hands of the Romans by crucifixion.
- The authors note that sociologists have increasingly emphasized that religion is
- As Christians living in the late modern era, it would be proper to simply give an unbeliever logical arguments for Christianity.
- The work of scholars, such as N. T. Wright, has shown that the resurrection of Jesus was a(n) _________ notion with first-century Greeks.
- Which of the following statements accurately evaluates scientific approaches to morality?
- Many Jews looked forward to a future ________ bodily resurrection.
- Which of the following considerations pushed science towards to idea that the universe had an origin, and away from the idea that the universe is eternal?
- Both natural laws and divine miracles have a common source: the Creator.
- According to Alister McGrath, the best way to break the spell of a closed world system is best done by rational argument instead of an imaginatively compelling alternative.
- We are all acting, thinking, and feeling out of backgrounds and frameworks which we do not fully understand.
- The responses to defeaters and arguments for Christianity are in some cases able to be abstracted from genuine discipleship and worship of the church.