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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Corroborating Evidence.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Strobel discover when he reads some of the works that have been excluded from the New Testament?
(a) They are informative but not interesting.
(b) They are written by people who were not apostles.
(c) They are too far removed from the time Jesus actually lived and walked the earth.
(d) They are interesting but not informative.

2. Who was the second person to record that Peter's firsthand accounts were accurate?
(a) Papias.
(b) Mark.
(c) Peter himself.
(d) Jesus.

3. Why aren't all accounts of the gospel exactly alike, according to Blomberg?
(a) Because different writers are impacted by different events.
(b) Because they are not vaild.
(c) Because oral histories are not word for word.
(d) Because the written ones were lost.

4. What is the author's fear as he begins to face Christianity?
(a) That he will have to pay penance for all his sins.
(b) That he will have to give up gambling.
(c) That his wife won't be fun any more.
(d) That he won't be able to drink any more.

5. According to Blomberg, what is the gospel based on?
(a) Eyewitness material.
(b) Confessions recorded.
(c) The Bible.
(d) Theory.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the three parts into which the author chooses to break the book?

2. Metzger compares the Bible to what era of other literature?

3. What did Josephus write?

4. The author searches for truth based on what?

5. Which historian claims that Matthew and Peter are the authors of the gospels?

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