REL 100 (REL100)

REL 100- Exam 4 The Western Religions: - correct answer Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (all monotheism- 1 God (Abraham)) Descendents of Abraham: - correct answer 2100s BCE Abrahams wife: - correct answer Sarah God told Abraham and Sarah to do what: - correct answer go to promised land and them and descents are Gods chosen people Hagar: - correct answer servant has Ishmael Isaac: - correct answer Sarahs son Isaacs religion: - correct answer judaism Ishmaels r...

REL 100 - Final Exam Study GuideExclusivism - correct answer There is only one true path a person can follow to obtain salvation and only one true sacred text. Followers of any other path or sacred text are damned. Pluralism - correct answer All religions equally provide salvific access because, despite major differences among individual religious traditions, the fundamental truths are the same for all of them. To constrain truth to only one theological framework is offensive and unnecess...

REL 100- Christianity Final ExamChapters and Verses in each New Testament Gospel - correct answer Matthew- 28 chapters/ 1071 verses Mark-16 chapters/ 678 verses Luke- 24 chapters/ 1151 verses John- 21 chapters/ 879 verses A parable conveys a meaning indirectly by the use of comparison, analogy, or the like. Give 4 instances from the New Testament. - correct answer 1) prodigal son 2) rich man and Lazarus 3) the Sower 4) the sheep and the goat A sermon is a discourse ...

REL 100 ChristianityRelation between Judaism and Christianity - correct answer The new testament or Torah Old Testament - correct answer Describes the person and work of the Messiah that is to come. New Testament - correct answer In these books Jesus fulfills what was written about the Messiah in the Old Testament Book of Romans - correct answer Written by Paul, helps us understand Christianity. Most systematic explanation of Christianity, laying out the entire gospel. Chapter ...

REL 100 Exam 1assumes that the divine is real and that religion is a response or approach to spiritual realities, assumes that at least one religion is true - correct answer theological attempts to understand the origins of religion and to explain religion in terms of its significance and function in society, typically explaining or describing religion in non-religious terms (e.g. in terms of psychology or sociology) - correct answer reduction accepts religion as an enduring human phen...

REL 100 Exam 2A sacred story must be historically true in order to be meaningful - correct answer False Which Hindu text teaches the idea of karma and reincarnation, the illusion of reality, and that the there is only one absolute reality that constitutes the Real Self, identical with the human self or atman. - correct answer Upanishads The Bible and other sacred texts, typically begin as oral tradition and do not take written form until later - correct answer True Torah, the most...

REL 100 Exam 4-- MSU Yahweh - correct answer Hebrew name for God Abraham - correct answer Founder of Judaism, God's chosen person Hellenization - correct answer Spread of Greek culture Talmud - correct answer A collection of authoritative Jewish writings that comment and interpret biblical laws. Torah - correct answer The first five books of Jewish Scripture, which they believe are by Moses Reform Judaism - correct answer Movement to modernize Jewish life, retaining t...

REL 100 Exam #2Religions associate with each sacred object... - correct answer The Ark of the Covenant: Ancient Israel (Judaism) Bread and Wine: Catholic Christians The Black Stone in the Ka'bah: Muslims The Ganges River: Hindus Religions associated with these people and their experience of the sacred... - correct answer Arjuna saw the god Krishna in his pure form as having countless eyes and being brighter than the light from 1000 suns: Hiduism Moses heard and spoke with God in a ...

REL 100 Final Exam•It was the original established church - correct answer Church of England/ American establishment- •Comes to America looking for religious freedom - correct answer Dissenters (Puritans, Quakers, Baptists)- •Wanted to model New England on Calvin's Geneva - correct answer New England Puritans- •1st governor of Massachusetts bay colony - correct answer John Winthrop- •· going against Hitler - correct answer Barmen Declaration •Founder of Rho...

REL 100 Final ExamObjective - correct answer free from personal considerations Subjective - correct answer based solely off of personal encounters Legal position on studying religion in schools - correct answer Abington v Schempp (19630) Schempp family challenged Abington school district for making their children read the bible in class Existential needs - correct answer 1. Need to overcome loneliness 2. Need for meaning 3. need to overcome precariousness 4. need for joy ...