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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Yancey, how many times does the Qur'an apply the word "love" to God?

2. What does Yancey think Easter makes Jesus?

3. Why has the name Judas died out?

4. What miracle is the last great "sign"?

5. What temptation has the church faced since the time of Constantine?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who betrays Jesus to the Jewish and Roman authorities?

2. What is the one miracle that is in all four biblical gospels?

3. What is ironic about Jesus entering into Jerusalem on a donkey?

4. Why does Yancey title Chapter 11 "A Morning Beyond Belief?"

5. What does Yancey note about the end times?

6. What did Yancey's study of the Old Testament teach him about the word Messiah?

7. What does Jesus say about the woman who comes into the respectable house of Simon and wipes Jesus's feet with her hair?

8. Who is the only named person in Jesus's parables?

9. What does Yancey say about how Easter affects who Jesus is for us?

10. What is unusual about leprosy patients and their illness?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What are the two reasons Yancey gives for Jesus investing so much in the 12 disciples? What is Jesus revealing about himself in his choice and commitment to his disciples?

Essay Topic 2

Free will is a major concept in Christianity and Yancey ties this theological concept strongly to the temptation of Christ in the wilderness.

Choose one of the following to write about.

1) How does the concept of free will fit in with the temptation of Christ in the wilderness?

2) Why would God send a helpless, suffering Messiah?

3) Why does Jesus have so little power and not accept the power Satan would offer him?

Essay Topic 3

What does Yancey want to confront the present day church with in terms of the issue of being Pharisees? What does he believe Jesus would say to the modern church about its exclusive nature?

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