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Exploring Christianity: A Quiz on Beliefs and History

This quiz explores various aspects of Christianity, including its beliefs, historical developments, and significant figures. Test your knowledge on the subject!

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1 Some Europeans (including diaspora), ________, and natives of other continents have revived their respective peoples' historical folk religions.

2 ________ Evangelical Christian Church in Canada

3 ________, like Jews and Roman pagans of his time, believed that sacrifice can bring about new kinship ties, purity, and eternal life.

4 [70] The Roman Catholic and Orthodox canons include other books from the ________ which Roman Catholics call Deuterocanonical.

5 The ________ (Symbolum Apostolorum) was developed between the 2nd and 9th centuries.

6 [46] ________, an early Christian convert and missionary, wrote, "If Christ was not raised, then all our preaching is useless, and your trust in God is useless."[1 Cor. 15:14] [47]

7 What does the following picture show?  Opening of Luther's 95 Theses   A simplified chart of historical developments of major groups within Christianity.   Countries with 50% and more Christians are colored purple while countries with 10% to 50% Christians are colored pink.

8 [57] In the words of the ________, an early statement of Christian belief, "the Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Spirit is God, and yet there are not three Gods but one God".

9 There are a variety of congregational ________, including thanksgiving, confession, and intercession, which occur throughout the service and take a variety of forms including recited, responsive, silent, or sung.

10 Arguments over death and resurrection claims occur at many religious ________ and interfaith dialogues.

šŸ’” Interesting Facts

  • the Christian flag was the idea of a superintendent of a U.S. Sunday school who gave a speech asking students what a flag representing Christianity would look like.
  • the Crusade of Varna required simultaneous attacks on the Muslim Ottoman Empire by Christian Hungary and the Muslim Karamanids, which did not occur.
  • the Solomon Islander Peter Ambuofa, who had converted to Christianity while working on a sugar plantation in Queensland, was left to starve by his own relatives when he returned home.
  • the Christian mission founded by Florence Young on her brothersā€™ sugar plantation in Queensland led her to make annual trips to the Solomon Islands for twenty years.
  • in Islam, Tahrif is the charge that Jewish and Christian holy books have been subject to change, alteration or forgery.
  • it is estimated that 40% of the Tamil and Malayalam Nadar caste are Christians.
  • the Franco-Ottoman alliance of 1536 between Francis I and Suleiman the Magnificent has been called "the first nonideological diplomatic alliance" between a Christian and a non-Christian power.
  • the Lieven princely family claims descent from Caupo of Turaida, one of the first Livonians to convert to Christianity.
  • today, most Butts are Muslims, although some practice Hinduism or Christianity.
  • two local Christians stopped by the dedication ceremony for Spring Glen Synagogue's Torah scrolls and presented the congregation with a Bible.
  • the origins of the Church of Caucasian Albania date to Saint Eliseus' efforts in the first century AD to spread Christianity to the area.
  • the famous Russian orientalist of Azeri origin, Muhammad Ali Kazim-bey, was converted to Christianity by Scottish Presbyterian missionaries in 1821.
  • the Sunburst community, a Southern California commune combining elements of mysticism, Christianity and Hopi rituals, was once one of the largest shippers of organic products in the U.S..
  • the date of the translation (pictured) of a Christian saint's relics was often observed as a separate feast day.
  • in 1675 bones of five Christian saints and one Hungarian monarch were discovered at the Pula Cathedral in Croatia.
  • in 1289, when the Mamluks led by Qalawun captured Tripoli (depicted in artwork) in present-day Lebanon from the Franks, they ended 180 years of uninterrupted Christian rule, the longest of any of the major Frankish conquests in the Levant.
  • jewellery in the Pacific changed drastically when missionaries began converting many Pacific nations to Christianity.
  • Ruatara, chief of the Ngā Puhi, hosted the first Christian mission in New Zealand in 1814.
  • Charles Grant of the British East India Company wanted it to promote Christianity as well as trade in India.
  • Beatus of Lungern, a first century Christian missionary to Switzerland, is often depicted as a monk fighting a dragon.
  • television writer Josh Senter rarely watched television until he was fourteen because of his parents' fundamental Christian beliefs.
  • Anonymous Christian is Karl Rahner's controversial theological premise used to postulate that people can be saved through Christ even if they explicitly reject Christianity.
  • Saint Stephen of Perm invented the Permian alphabet for the Komi people in order to facilitate their education and eventual conversion to Christianity.
  • St. Assam's Church in Raheny, Dublin, has been the site of Christian worship since 1189.
  • according to Ernst Lohmeyer, "the Christian faith is only Christian as long as it retains in its heart the Jewish faith".
  • an inquiry into Sidhom Bishay's execution for his refusal to convert to Islam and renounce Christianity resulted in the dismissal of a judge and a governor.
  • according to Ronald Enroth's book Churches That Abuse, "spiritual abuse can take place in the context of doctrinally sound, Bible-preaching, fundamentalist, conservative Christianity".
  • a shattered goblet of Communion wine reportedly helped Saint Donatus of Arezzo convert 79 pagans to Christianity.
  • Tom Edur gave up a professional ice hockey career at the age of 24 to study Christianity.
  • Dan Brown's depictions of core aspects of Christianity and the history of the Roman Catholic Church in his most famous novel have generated numerous criticisms of The Da Vinci Code among critics who feel that much of what he wrote is factually inaccurate.
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