CHST112 TEST 2 QUESTIONS WITH
ANSWERS – REVISED & UPDATED
Acts Chapter by Chapter - Answer-Chapter 1 - The ascension of Christ into Heaven
Chapter 2 - The coming of the Holy Spirit and Peter's first sermon
Chapter 3 - Healing the lame man at the temple and Peter's second sermon
Chapter 4 - Peter and John arrested
Chapter 5 - Ananias and Sapphira and their lie
Chapter 6 - Selecting the first seven deacons
Chapter 7 - The stoning of Stephen
Chapter 8 - Phillip with Simon and the Eunuch
Chapter 9 - The conversion of Saul
Chapter 10 - Cornelius' Conversion
Chapter 11 - Peter defends God's grace and the gentile mission.
Chapter 12-14 - The first missionary journey
Chapter 15 - The Council of Jerusalem
Chapter 16-18 - The second missionary journey
Chapter 18-20 - The third missionary journey
Chapter 21 - Paul returns to Jerusalem and is arrested.
Chapter 22 - Paul goes on trial in Jerusalem.
Chapter 23-24 - Paul is moved to Caesarea, and his trials continue.
Chapter 25-26 - Paul defends himself before Festus and Agrippa.
Chapter 27 - Paul appeals to Caesar and is sent to Rome.
Chapter 28 - Paul continues the global mission from house arrest in Rome.
The letters Paul wrote during his early missionary travels - Answer-Letters, named after
their destinations, written to first-generation churches to teach them the gospel and deal
with specific problems and questions
Galatians: 1st journey
1 Corinthians: 3rd journey
1 Thessalonians: 2nd journey
2 Corinthians: 3rd journey
2 Thessalonians: 2nd journey Romans: 3rd journey
The letters Paul wrote from prison - Answer-Written by Paul while in prison in Rome for
preaching the gospel of Jesus
Ephesians
Philippians
Colossians
Philemon
,The letters Paul wrote near the end of his life - Answer-After Paul is released from
prison he does some more traveling and writes 1 Timothy and Titus. He is rearrested,
and from prison, shortly before his execution, writes 2 Timothy.
1 Timothy 2 Timothy
Titus
A Chronology of Paul - Answer--We don't know when Paul was born, but we see him in
the early days of the church (~AD 33) as a grown, educated, important Jewish man.
-Paul was from Tarsus of Cilicia (southern Turkey). He was a Roman citizen, and "Saul"
was his Jewish name.
-Paul had extensive rabbinic training and was heavily involved in the early persecution
of Christians by Jews.
-Around AD 34, Paul had a vision of Christ and converted to Christianity.
-Between AD 34-47, Paul traveled to Arabia, Damascus, and Jerusalem, doing
missionary work and meeting with the other apostles.
-Paul's first major missionary undertaking was from AD 47-48 to the Roman province of
Galatia. He wrote Galatians shortly after.
-In AD 49 Paul was instrumental in helping to settle the theological dispute in Jerusalem
(Acts 15 - the Council of Jerusalem).
-Paul's second major missionary undertaking was from AD 49-51 to the Greek
peninsula. On this journey he wrote 1 and 2 Thessalonians.
-Paul's third major missionary undertaking was from AD 51-54 to Ephesus where he
spent most of the three years. On this journey he wrote 1 and 2 Corinthians and
Romans.
-In AD 55, Paul was arrested in Jerusalem after returning from his third missionary
journey. He remained in prison in Caesarea until around AD 58.
-Between AD 58-60 Paul was in prison in Rome. While in prison he wrote Ephesians,
Philippians, Colossians, and Philemon.
-Sometime between AD 60 and 66 Paul was released from prison and resumed his
travels in preparation to take the gospel to Spain. It is during this time that Paul wrote 1
Timothy and Titus.
-Around AD 66 Paul was rearrested and was executed by AD 67. During this short
second imprisonment, Paul wrote 2 Timothy.
The Council of Jerusalem - Answer-The question that arose on Paul's first missionary
journey was over the nature of the salvation that Jesus offers. When we look closer at
Acts 15, there are two big questions that come to the forefront:
1. What must we do to be saved?
2. Must we keep the Law of Moses in order to be good Christians (i.e. must Christians
become Jewish in their practice)?
The question is further complicated by the fact that false teachers (the Judaizers) had
infiltrated the churches in Galatia and Antioch to spread a false gospel of salvation by
works. Paul writes Galatians to the Galatians to answer the false teachers, and the
missionaries and apostles gathered in Jerusalem to answer both of those questions and
add a third consideration.
The three conclusions of the Council of Jerusalem:
, 1. Salvation is now and has always been by faith. Jews are saved by believing in Jesus
and Gentiles are saved by believing in Jesus.
2. No one is required to keep the Law of Moses in order to be a good Christian.
3. Jews and Gentiles should both be careful that their behavior does not offend the
other.
How to read an epistle - Answer-1. The letters in the New Testament are a combination
of personal correspondence, public letter, and theological treatise.
2. The personal components tell us about the early church and give us principles for
Christian living.
3. The public components instruct the church on how to live as the people of God in this
age.
4. The treatise components provide the church with both sound theology and its
application.
5. We must always carefully and precisely move from particular situations to universal
application.
Authorship of Galatians - Answer-The author of Galatians is Paul the apostle. His name
appears in the "from line" in the letter itself, and the text reflects Pauline language,
concerns, and structure. Much of Galatians is, in fact, autobiographical for the
missionary apostle.
Date of Galatians - Answer-Scholars debate the date of the writing of Galatians
(scholars debate everything!), but the best evidence indicates that Paul wrote Galatians
very early, just after he returned from his first missionary journey and before the
gathering of all the apostles, pastors, and missionaries in Jerusalem to deal with the
"Judaizer" heresy around AD 48-49. ***In bible modern day turkey is Asia minor.***
Provenance of Galatians - Answer-If the conclusions above about the date are correct,
then Paul most likely wrote Galatians from
Antioch, Jerusalem, or somewhere on the road between.
Purpose of Galatians - Answer-While Paul and crew were traveling through Asia Minor
on their first missionary journey, the
church began encountering the "Judaizers," a heretical Jewish Christian sect that taught
a different gospel than what Paul taught. They are described in Acts 15:1.
1 But some men came down from Judea and were teaching the brothers, "Unless you
are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved."
In Galatians Paul describes the Judaizers as preachers of a different gospel who trouble
the church and distort the truth (Gal 1:6-7). Before Paul led the church in dealing with
this heresy (Acts 15), he had to combat it on the mission field from which he had just
returned. After Paul left, the Judaizers moved into Galatia and the Galatians were
persuaded by them. Galatians is Paul's appeal to those Christians to return to the true
gospel of Jesus and the doctrine of justification by faith.
The bad guys in Galatians - Answer-1) They were a Christian sect.
