Trivia Questions February 2010

1.  Ignatius tells the Smyrneans to appoint one of their number as -- :

a.  deacon

b.  presbyter

c.  accountant

d.  courier

a.   Ignatius asks them to send a representative to Syrian Antioch --  “your Church should appoint for the honour of God an ambassador of God,[3] to visit Syria and congratulate them because they are at peace and have received again their proper stature”  He makes a similar request in his letter to the Philadelphians, in which the representative is called a “deacon”.

2  .  Polycarp says that "to deny that Jesus is come in the flesh is to be --" :

a.  agnostic

b.  Docetist

c.  Aryan

d.  Antichrist

d.  The Docetists maintained the impossibility of Jesus being fully divine and fully human.  His human characteristics were thus held to be an illusion.  Polycarp calls such people "Antichrist".

3.  The letter to Diognetus says that Christians behave as if they were -- :

a.  soldiers

b.  aliens

c.  sheep

d.  angels

b.  “They dwell in their own countries, but only as sojourners; they bear their share in all things as citizens, and they endure all hardships as strangers. Every foreign country is a fatherland to them, and every fatherland is foreign.”