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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4: Paul and His Gospels.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did the Christ cult differ form the Jesus movement?
(a) It focused on Jesus' life and celebrated his spirit.
(b) It focused on Jesus' death and his teachings.
(c) It focused on Jesus' life and his teachings.
(d) It focused on Jesus' death and celebrated his spirit.

2. What does Paul assure the Thessalonians in terms of "those who had died"?
(a) That those who died before Christ could still be saved.
(b) That those who died in sin would not be with God after death.
(c) That those who died with God will live with God.
(d) That those who died with God will never die.

3. When would eternal life be obtained, according the Mack's depiction of Paul's letters to the Thessalonians?
(a) In accepting Christ.
(b) At the end of time.
(c) Never.
(d) In death.

4. What does Carsten Thiede claim about the Magdalen fragments?
(a) They are from the eighth century.
(b) They are not real.
(c) They are from the fourth century.
(d) They are from the mid first century.

5. Where did Rome place its power in the second and first centuries?
(a) In its priests.
(b) In its politicians.
(c) In its field commanders.
(d) In its laborers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What two words came to represent the debate between power and the divine law of nature?

2. Why does Mack call the Christ cult the first Christians?

3. What does Mack claim happens when a person brings in a Biblical position to an argument of social discussion?

4. In the temple-state model of civilization, what system does the king represent?

5. Where does evidence for the Christ cult come from?

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