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Questions: Veritas 2020 #14 Early Church History (2 of 3)

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  1. How can I trust the manuscripts if there are more variations in them than there are words in the New Testament?
  2. What is the date of the Chester Beatty papyri?
  3. What is the significance of the Chester Beatty papyri?
  4. What is the date of the Gospel of John papyri?
  5. What is the significance of the Gospel of John papyri?
  6. What is a “harmony of the gospels?”
  7. What did Tatian do?
  8. When did he do it?
  9. Who was Tatian’s teacher?
  10. When did Justin Martyr write? 
  11. What did Justin Martyr write?
  12. What does he quote in that writing?
  13. What is the John Rylands Papyrus? 
  14. What is its date?
  15. Why is the John Rylands Papyrus so significant?
  16. What is the significance of the climate of the Holy Land regarding manuscripts?
  17. Who was Polycarp?
  18. Who discipled Polycarp?
  19. When did Polycarp write his letter to the Philippians?
  20. What is the significance of Polycarp’s letter to the Philippians? 
  21. Who was Ignatius?
  22. Who discipled Ignatius?
  23. When did Ignatius write? (EDV 168)
  24. What is the significance of Ignatius’ letters?
  25. Who was Clement of Rome? 
  26. Is he mentioned in the New Testament? Where?
  27. When did Clement of Rome write to the church in Corinth?
  28. What’s the significance of Clement’s letter?
  29. What’s the significance of the date 70 AD? 
  30. How do we know that much of the New Testament was written before 70 AD? 
  31. How do we know that Acts was written in the mid-60s? 
  32. When did the war between Rome and Judea begin? 
  33. What is the significance of Paul’s quotes of Scriptures in 1 Timothy 5:17-18? 
  34. What two books of the Bible did Paul quote from in 1 Tim 5:17-18? 
  35. What does 1 Timothy 5:17-18 tell us about the Gospel of Luke? 
  36. When did Paul write 1 Timothy?
  37. When did Paul write Galatians?
  38. When did Paul meet James and Peter?
  39. What were the “oral creeds?” When and why were they used? (EDV 165)
  40. What is the gist of the oral creed quoted in 1 Corinthians 15? What does it tell us? 
  41. When would Paul probably have heard that particular oral creed?
  42. How do we know that some copyists didn’t change the things that are in our New Testaments? 
  43. How do we know that Jesus wasn’t a simple Jewish Rabbi that later generations embellished and exaggerated into a fictional miracle-working Son of God?