.Bible Class Questions

         
    QUESTIONS OVER
    GALATIANS CHAPTER 4:
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    1. In Paul’s illustration, in what way is a child (though heir/lord of all) no different from a servant?
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    2. What spiritual application does Paul make of this illustration?
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    3. What did God do when the fullness of time was come?
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    4. In referring to Christians being "sons" of God, what figure does Paul use that is different than that used by Peter and John?
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    5. "And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, ________ , _____________ ."
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    6. If we are no more a servant, but now regarded as a son, what does that mean for us?
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    7. In saying that the Galatians were returning to the "weak and beggarly elements" (the law), what thing does he name they were doing that indicates this?
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    8. Paul said, "I am afraid of you, lest I have ______________________ _____________________________________ ."
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    9.  Here Paul seems to condemn the observing of O.T. religious days, but in Romans 14 is more tolerant—what seems to be the explanation?
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    10. What were the conditions under which Paul had preached the gospel to the Galatians at the first, but they nontheless received him as "an angel of light, even as Christ Jesus"?
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    11. Paul asked, "Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the ____________ ?"
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    12. What is the secondary meaning (or the dual meaning), of the word translated "zealous" (zelotes) in the New Testament?
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    13. What Scripture does Paul refer to as law, yet strictly speaking it was not law?
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    14. In the "allegory" involving Abraham/s two sons, one of the bondmaid (Hagar) and the other of the freewoman (Sarah), what do the women represent?
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    15. What do the sons (Ishmael and Isaac) represent?
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    16. "Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of ___________ ."
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    17. What did he who was born after the flesh (Ishmael) do in reference to Isaac that was parallel to the experience of Jews and Christians in Paul’s day?
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    18. What finally happened to Hagar and her son?
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    NAME: _________________________ DATE: ________________


    ANSWERS:  1. Gal. 4:1,2;  2. Gal. 4:3,4;  3. Gal. 4:4; 4. Paul uses the figure that we are children of God by adoption whereas Peter and John use the figure of a birth (Gal. 4:5; Romans 8:14-17);  5. Gal. 4:6;  6. Gal. 4:7;  7. Gal. 4:9-11;  8. Gal. 4:11; 9. In Galatians it was becoming church doctrine, as whole churches were going over to this; in Romans people are dealt with on an individual basis as they came unto a fuller understanding of Christianity and the views were not being imposed on the whole church;  10. Gal. 4:13-15;  11. Gal. 4:16;   12. Gal. 4:17,18 (zealous, and the secondary meaning of jealous);  13. Gal. 4:21-23 (actually this happened before the giving of the Law to Moses); 14. Gal. 4:22-26; 15. Ishmael: JEWS; Isaac: CHRISTIANS (Gal. 4:28,29); 16. Gal. 4:28; 17. Gal. 4:29; 18. Gal. 4:30.
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