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1. Please select the following correct answers to the question: Christianity claims which of the following to be true.

		Jesus is God the Son.
		If the resurrection is true, then it is compelling evidence which supports Christ's claim to be God the Son.
		Christianity claims that God created the universe in6 days.
		If Jesus is God the Son,then He perfectly revealed God to us.

QUESTION 2

1. The empty tomb serves as negative evidence that Christ rose from the dead.

True

False

QUESTION 3

1. The empty tomb does not prove Jesus rose from the dead because there could be other optionstoexplain the reason Jesus' tomb is empty.

True

False

QUESTION 4

1. Select the right answers to the following question: what is true about those who claimed to be eyewitnesses of the resurrected Jesus?

		Anywhere between500-3000 people claimed they saw Jesus after He rose from the dead.
		The early eyewitnesses of the resurrected Jesus benefited tremendously by claiming they had seen Him.
		The first eyewitnesses were Jews who had been brought up to believe that God would never die and rise from the dead.
		The early writers of the New Testament created the stories of the women being the first to see Jesus after He rose from the dead in order to help sell their message to women.

QUESTION 5

1. Select the correct answers to the following question: which of the following statements are true concerning the issue if Jesus ever lived or not?

		There is no mention of Jesus in Roman documents.
		The early Jewish opponents of Christianity claimed that Jesus was a sorcerer who performed miracles in the power of Satan.
		Jesus performed so many miracles in public that it was hard to deny He existed and that He performed miracles.

QUESTION 6

1. The birth stories in Matthew and Luke are evidence that the New Testament documents contradict each other.

True

False

QUESTION 7

1. We should expect that the stories written by different authors on the same eventswould be different,not necessarily contradictory,but different.

True

False

QUESTION 8

1. The last of the gospels(Gospel of John) was writtenover100 years after the events it describes.

True

False

QUESTION 9

1. If the stories of Jesus were written down even 50 years after the events in the stories, the stories wouldnecessarily be unreliable because of the great lapse in time between the events and the writing of the stories which depict the events.

True

False

QUESTION 10

1. Select the right answers to the following question:which of the statements is true regarding Christianity and mythology?

		It is a fact that Christianity is based upon mythology.
		Myths are defined only as false explanations of the way nature operates.
		If Christianity is true, it may serve as the basis for many of the myths.
		C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien viewed myths as the good dreams God gave the world to prepare it for the coming of Christ.

QUESTION 1

1. Which of the following apply to the claim ofIslam? (select all the right answers).

		Islam claims that there is one God (Allah) and thatMuhammed is His prophet.
		Islam rejects the Trinitarian view of God espoused by Christianity.
		Muhammed began a new line of prophets who may actually one day improve the teachings of the Koran.
		Muhammed is the final prophet in the sense that if any prophets disagree what was revealed to them, then they are wrong and need to be corrected in light of the Koran.

QUESTION 2

1. In which of the following cities is the Kaaba located?

		Damascus
		Medina
		Mecca
		Jerusalem

QUESTION 3

1. Which of the following statements is true?

		Islam claims that the Kaaba was actually constructed by Abraham.
		The Kaaba had always been devoted strictly to the worship of Allah,even beforeMuhammedlived.
		Muhammedwas fortunate that Arabia was a united kingdom before he began his religious reforms.
		Muhammedby his wife Sarah was blessed with 3 children, 2 sons and 1 daughter.

QUESTION 4

1. Which of the following apply to the claim Islam? (select all the right ones).

		Muhammed started receiving the revelations from Allah while he was meditating on St. Sinai.
		Muhammedwas 30 years old when he began receiving these revelations from Allah.
		Muhammedwas 40 years old when he began receiving these revelations from Allah.
		WhenMuhammedstarted receiving these visions, he was initially frightened and wanted to be hidden by his wife covering him.
		The first person to believe thatMuhammedwas the prophet of Allah was the cousinWaraqa.
		Mecca was the first city to welcomeMuhammedas a prophet.

QUESTION 5

1. Islam embraced the claims of many Jews that Jesus was not from God but instead He was a sorcerer.

True

False

QUESTION 6

1. Which famous Frankish warrior stopped the spread of the Islamic forces in732 AD at Tours, France?

		Charlemagne
		Pepin
		Francis 1
		Charles Martel

QUESTION 7

1. The major piece of evidence supporting the claim of Islam is the credibility of Muhammed.

True

False

QUESTION 8

1. The major challenge Islam has to address is historical verification.

True

False

QUESTION 9

1. If one of the religious systems is absolutely true,then it means that every other religious system is absolutely false.

True

False

QUESTION 10

1. Although the five religious systems we studied do differ,the fact is that there are many similarities among the different systems.

True

False