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The Gist of Galatians

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Introduction:
"This quiz focuses on the concepts Paul addresses in Galatians, not in minutia. Quotes are taken from the Revised Standard Version."


1. What was happening among the churches of Galatia that prompted Paul to write the letter?
    They were circumcizing Gentile converts.
    They were carousing.
    They were participating in pagan rituals.
    They were eating meat that had been sacrificed to idols.


2. What did Paul consider the underlying truth that the Galatians weren't grasping?
    That Jesus is the Son of God
    That they were to spread the Gospel to everyone, not just the Jews
    That justification comes through faith, not through following the law
    That what you eat isn't what defiles you; it's what you say


3. Paul makes many references to an Old Testament patriarch and the promises God made to him. Which patriarch is this?
    Noah
    Job
    Moses
    Abraham


4. What did Paul say the law and faith were, respectively?
    The flesh and the spirit
    Slavery and freedom
    All of these.
    Being a slave and being a son


5. Paul draws a parallel between the law and what?
    All of these
    Heavy shackles
    Guardianship
    A dead body


6. Paul also uses the children of two Old Testament women to illustate his point. Which women?
    Hagar and Sarah
    Ruth and Naomi
    Eve and Sarah
    Eve and Hagar


7. What differences did Paul say that Christ eradicated?
    All of these
    Slave and free
    Jew and Greek
    Male and female


8. Paul admonishes the Galatians to live and walk by the Spirit, without what?
    Conceit
    Any of these
    Provocation
    Envy


9. In the final chapter of Galatians, Paul instructs the readers on how to address a man who "is overtaken in any trespass". How are believers to deal with such a man?
    With great zeal
    They are to have no dealings with him at all.
    By casting him out of the fellowship
    In a spirit of gentleness


10. In his closing admonition, what motives does Paul ascribe to the party he took up his pen to address?
    They feared that they'd be persecuted for Christ
    Both
    They wanted to glory in the flesh of others
    Neither


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