chapter 1.2 Study Guide Epistles

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1. Christians of the second century did not yet have the ............................................................. .
2. ......................................... are Letters written by Paul and other Christian Leaders.
3. The Gospel of ........................................ is the first book in the New Testament.
4. The Greek word ........................................... means knowledge.
5.6. Some Gnostics claimed that Jesus consisted of 2 distinct beings: The .............................................. Jesus, and the ................................. Jesus.
7. There are ................................ different gods in the gnostic system.
8. Gnostics believed that the Creator God of the Old Testament was ........................... .
9. Christian diversity is easer to document in the ........................... century.
10. The only Christian writings that can be reliably dated to the ............................. century are found in the New Testament.
11. The canonical Gospel of ................................. was a favorite of the Gnostics.
12. The non-canonical Gospels of ............................ , Phillip, and Thomas appeared on the scene to support the Gnostic perspective.
13. The Proto- ....................................... christians where the forerunners of the group that became the dominant form of Christianity in later centuries.
14. Asia Minor is now located in the nation of ....................................... .
15. The Marcionite Christians subscribed to the form of Christianity developed by ......................................... .
16.17. Early Jewish Christians believed Jesus was ............................... but Marcionites think he was ...........................................................
18. The 27 books of the New Testament are written in ................................................. .
19. Their are ................................... Epistles claimed to written by Paul.
20. The Apostolic ....................................... were men whose writings, though not accepted as canon, were read in the Churches of the first few centuries