APOL 220 QUIZ 8
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Quiz: Making a Case
Due
Mar 8 at 11:59pm
Points
50
Questions
25
Time Limit
60 Minutes
Instructions
The quiz:
Covers all
Learn
materials from
Module 8:
Week 8.
Contains
25 multiple-choice and true/false
questions.
Is
limited
to
60 minutes.
Allows 1 attempt
.
Is
worth 50 points
.
Submit this assignment by 11:59 p.m. (ET) on
Friday
of Module 8: Week 8.
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Attempt 1
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Question 1
2 / 2 pts
When thinking about miracles, which point(s) below is valid?
Miracles are not normal events.
Miracles by nature are not repeatable
Not every claimed miracle is actually a miracle.
All of the above
Question 2
2 / 2 pts
Perhaps the best way to ground morality, as the authors suggest, is to ground it in culture.
True
False
Question 3
2 / 2 pts
Shifts in thinking normally happen slowly, so the fact that conservative Jewish disciples were willing to worship a crucified human is proof that Jesus did indeed rise from the dead.
True
False
Question 4
2 / 2 pts
The worship of a crucified and resurrected Messiah was scandalous within the first-century world and calls for an explanation.
True
False
Question 5
2 / 2 pts
Due to lack of evidence, many New Testament scholars today agree that Jesus did not die at the hands of the Romans by crucifixion.
True
False
Question 6
2 / 2 pts
According to the authors, currently, there is far more of a consensus among scientists than one might expect that the universe had a beginning.
True
False
Question 7
2 / 2 pts
Who is quoted as saying “
The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility . . . the fact that it is comprehensible is a miracle”?
Albert Einstein
Stephen Hawking
John Polkinghorne
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John Lennox
Question 8
2 / 2 pts
Which of the following inquiries about the disciples substantiate the story of the resurrection?
What would cause so radical a transformation, changing them from frightened and defeated to bold witnesses?
Why would they carry the deception so far as to die for their own lie?
How would they revive Jesus if He merely swooned?
All of the above
Only A and B
Question 9
2 / 2 pts
The responses to defeaters and arguments for Christianity are in some cases able to be
abstracted from genuine discipleship and worship of the church.
True
False
Question 10
2 / 2 pts
Many Jews looked forward to a future ________ bodily resurrection.
corporate
individual
sequential
gradual
Question 11
2 / 2 pts
Which of the following inquiries are considered among life’s universal questions?
Who are we?
What is the problem with the world?
Where are we going?
All of the above
Question 12
2 / 2 pts
Which ancient historian provides Christianity with historical evidence for the persecution of early Christians?
Josephus
Tacitus
Eusebius
All of the above
Question 13
2 / 2 pts
The unlikely discipleship of Paul and James provide us with a good reason to believe the resurrection happened.
True
False
Question 14
2 / 2 pts
Only shallow truths can be proven absolutely; the deepest answers of life are beyond absolute proof.
True
False
Question 15
2 / 2 pts
Which of the following statements accurately evaluates scientific approaches to morality?
Science is helpful in describing physically certain aspects of morality.
Science is able to prescribe obligations.
Science cannot help us explain instrumental outcomes.
All of the above
None of the above
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Question 16
2 / 2 pts
According to Alister McGrath, the best way to break the spell of a closed world system is best done by rational argument instead of an imaginatively compelling alternative.
True
False
Question 17
2 / 2 pts
According to Luc Ferry, the materialist’s position on morality falls apart when:
He comes under the judgment of God
He tries to account for cultural appeals
He realizes all explanations are equally flawed
He walks out into the real world
Question 18
2 / 2 pts
The authors note that sociologists have increasingly emphasized that religion is
not going away
slowly fading away
quickly fading away
None of the above
Question 19
2 / 2 pts
Christian persuasion should be holistic
True
False
Question 20
2 / 2 pts
We are all acting, thinking, and feeling out of backgrounds and frameworks which we do
not fully understand.
True
False
Question 21
2 / 2 pts
As Christians living in the late modern era, it would be proper to simply give an unbeliever logical arguments for Christianity.
True
False
Question 22
2 / 2 pts
Possible skeptical explanations for miracles include that people are lying, hallucinating, or merely wish to experience one.
True
False
Question 23
2 / 2 pts
The work of scholars, such as N. T. Wright, has shown that the resurrection of Jesus was a(n) _________ notion with first-century Greeks.
popular
expected
unpopular
plausible
Question 24
2 / 2 pts
C. S. Lewis argues that the divine art of miracle is not an art of ___________ the pattern but feeding new events into that pattern.
destroying
suspending
violating
breaking
Question 25
2 / 2 pts
Which of the following considerations pushed science towards to idea that the universe had an origin, and away from the idea that the universe is eternal?
The redshift in light from faraway galaxies
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Cosmic microwave background
Thermodynamics
All of the above
Only A and C
Quiz Score:
50
out of 50