Random Quiz - 2

1. How many books are in Protestant Versions of the Old Testament?

2. What are the synoptic gospels?

3. What is the famous Vulgate?

4. What was the name of the 1st Bible printed on a printing press?

5. In what year was this 1st Bible published?
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Answers:1-5

1)39.
2)Matthew, Mark, and Luke, means having a common view, similarity of each other and different from Gospel of john.
3)The Vulgate was considered the standard Bible of Christianity for over 1000 years. By the 3rd century, Latin had replaced Greek as the language of the Roman Empire. St Jerome was commissioned by Pope Damascus I to produce a standard Latin translation of the Bible and the Vulgate was completed in AD 405.
4) The Gutenberg Bible. Johann Gutenberg trained as a goldsmith, invented the movable type printing press in 1440's and produced the 1st printed edition of the Latin Vulgate. 47 copies of the Gutenberg Bible are still in existence. This movable type printing press is the top best of all inventions of the last millennium(1000 years). Thus the copying error of the Bible is eliminated.
5)1456. Gutenberg lost his printing press and shop to financier Johann Fust in a 1455 lawsuit, but is believed to have completed the major part of the production prior to the foreclosure.
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6. Who first translated the entire Bible from Latin into English?

7. What year the beloved KJV was published?

8. What year the NIV Bible was published?

9. How many languages the Bible has been translated into?

10. The Book of Hebrews quote the "OT" _____ times and Revelation quote ______ times.
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Answers:6-10

6) John Wycliffe completed this task in 1384, the year he died.
7) 1611. King James I of England commissioned a group of 47 scholars to prepare a new translation of the Bible which became known as the King James Version. Because of its elegant style, KJV is still popular after 400 years although it is in old English.
8)1978. This made possible with the work of 10 years of planning by a group of scholars from Christian Reformed Church and the National Associations of Evangelicals(USA) with the help of financial sponsorship from the International Bible Society(USA)and 10 years of translation work by 100 scholars from six countries representing 20 denominations, including Anglican, Assemblies of God, Baptist, Brethren, Christian Reformed, Church of Christ, Evangelical Free, Lutheran, Mennonite, Methodist, Nazarene, Presbyterian and Wesleyan. The multi-denominations(not any official church reps at all) helped to safeguard the translation from sectarian bias. The NIV is most widely accepted contemporary bible translation, even Mar Thoma Church enjoy using it worldwide.
9) About 4000. The US Govt estimates 6900 languages in the world. The goal of The Wycliffe Bible Translators, Dallas, Texas is to have a Bible in every language by 2025. Wycliffe was founded in 1942 by William Cameron Townsend and it has currently branches in over 50 countries. The organization is named after John Wycliffe, an English Protestant Reformer, who is the first person to complete a translation of the Bible into English. USA govt lists USA has 311 languages and India has 427 languages.
10) 85, 245.
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11. What is the meaning of the Greek term, Pentecost?

12. Pentecost has been given all the names except:
a)Feast of chosen b) Feast of Harvest c) Feast of weeks d) day of the
firstfruits.

13. Peter had said, "Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of
Jesus Christ for the remission of sin, and you shall receive the gift of the
_____ ______ (Acts 2:38)".

14. In Romans 5:5, "Now hope does ____ _______, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who has been given to us".

15. After Jesus' death, the Apostle Paul still kept Pentecost. Where is the
evidence?
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Answers:11-15

11) 50th day
12) a. The 2nd of the 3 annual festivals was Pentacost and it was celebrated 50 days after Passover. Pentacost is a Greek term meaning 50.
13) Holy Spirit
14) not disappoint
15) Acts 20:16, "for he was hurrying to be at Jerusalem, if possible, on the day of Pentecost".
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16. Where in the Bible prescribes the sacred nature of the holiday and lists appropriate sacrifices?

17. Which is not one of the 3 pilgrim festivals of OT which required all adult males to participate at the sanctuary?
a)Feast of Unleavened Bread (Just after Passover)
b)Feast of Weeks or Harvest (Pentecost)
c)Feast of Tabernacles or Ingathering
d)Feast of Trumpets

18. How many gates will there be in the New Jerusalem?

19. In the Book of Revelation, what color horse is "Death" riding?
a)White b)Red c)Black d)Pale(or Green).

20. Which prophet's sons were notorious for taking bribes and preventing judgement?
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Answers:16-20

16) Lev 23
17) d
18) 12
19) d, (Rev 6:8 KJV)
20) Samuel. (1 Sam 8:1-3 KJV)