1) Is the Bible one book or a collection of books?  a) One book b) A library of books 2) How many books are in the Bible? a) 27 b) 39 c) 50 d) 66 3) Approximately how many years did it take to write all 66 books? a) More than 1,600 b) Only 10 years c) 100 years d) 300 years 4) Approximately how many writers wrote the 66 books? a) 66 b) Approximately 44 c) 20 d) 50 5) How many continents are represented by the writers? a) 1 b) 2 c) 3 (Africa, Asia, and Europe) d) 5 6) The Bible claims to be the Word of God. a) Yes it does b) No, it does not. 7) "The Bible refers to itself as 'the word of God' _________ times in the Old Testament." a) 10 b) 50 c) 100 d) 394 8) Jesus said that we would believe through the disciples' words and writings (John 17).  a) Yes. “I pray not only for these, but also for those who believe in me through their word." (Jn 17:20) b) Nope 9) ________________ archeological finds have verified people and places of biblical history.  a) No b) Thousands upon thousands of 10) The earliest manuscript of Julius Caesar's The Gallic Wars is _________ years later.  a) 20 b) 50 c) 200 d) 900 11) Historians have ___________ copies of Julius Caesar's The Gallic Wars. a) 10 b) 20 c) 110 d) 5000 12) The earliest manuscript of Homer's Iliad was ___________ years after the original. a) 30 b) 50 c) 300 d) 450 13) Historians have ____________ copies of Homer's Illiad a) 10 b) 100 c) 550 d) 1,950+ 14) The earliest manuscript of Herodotus' History was _____________. Historians have _______________ copies. a) 50 years, 10 copies b) 100 years, 10 copies c) 450 years, 100+ copies d) 1000 years, 100+ copies 15) The earliest Greek New Testament documents were within _________ years of the original. a) 100 b) 500 c) 30 d) 1000 16) Compared to Herodotus' Histories with 100+ copies (within 450 years), the Greek New Testament has ________ (within 300 years). a) 200 b) 500 c) 1000 d) 5,856+ 17) Non-Greek New Testament manuscripts (within 300 years of Jesus's crucifixion and empty tomb) number _____________. a) 8,200 b) 9,000 c) 20,000 d) 25,000 18) Scholars find the New Testament documents to have a ____________ trasmission accuracy rate.  a) 80% b) 85% c) 90% d) 99% 19) The thousands upon thousands of differences found among the New Testament documents are most often related to what (pick 3)? a) Spelling errors b) Word order (eg, Jesus Christ or Christ Jesus) c) Recopying words, phrases, etc. d) Doctrinal (meaning of events) 20) The New Testament writers often included _______________ details about themselves. This reenforces reliability of the story. a) Only self-gloryfing b) Embarrassing 21) The first eyewitness testimony of the bodily resurrected Jesus came from _______________. a) Peter b) John c) Women d) The Papa Johns delivery driver 22) In ancient culture, ___________ did not have credible legal standing in court (giving a testimony). a) Men b) Women 23) Including women in the eyewitness accounts of Jesus' bodily resurrection reflects _____________.  a) Authenticity b) A fraudulent account 24) The writers said that their records were based on eyewitness testimonies (John 21:24). a) No way b) Yes, indeed! 25) Bible "transmission" refers to the faithful _________ __________ of Scripture, generation to generation. a) Telephone game b) Passing down 26) The Bible's transmission (into what we have today) is viewed as reliable, given these three facts.  a) Late dating of the manuscripts b) Early dating of the manuscripts c) The vast number of early manuscripts d) Consistency across copies 27) The Gnostic Gospels were *not* deemed inspired Scripture by the early church because these letters were written _____________. a) Early b) Much later. After the eyewitnesses were gone. 28) The Gnostic Gospels were not deemed inspired Scripture by the early church because these letters were not _____________ accounts. a) Eyewitness b) Bank 29) Polycarp, born in AD 69, was instructed by apostles and conversed with people who had seen Christ. a) Nah b) It's true! Read Against Heresies (Book III, 3.4) by Irenaeus. 30) Polycarp wrote a cover letter to the church in Philippi, quoting from __________ of the 27 New Testament letters. a) 5 b) 10 c) 17 d) None 31) The New Testament Letters were viewed as "inspired" (breathed-out by God) ________________ (Jn 16:13; 2 Ti 3:16; 2 Pe 1:20-21). a) In 325 AD b) Immediately 32) The Bible is a book given by God, through men, to and for men. a) Yes! b) Nope.

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