Questions and answers
Easy Doctrine — Christ
Christ's threefold office as Prophet, Priest, and King is known by what Latin phrase?
- AMunus triplexCorrect
- BSola Christus
- CImago Dei
- DCommunicatio idiomatum
Answer: Munus triplex
BF&M 2000, Article II.B · ESV
Munus triplex means the threefold office. The categories are not invented, they are gathered from the Old Testament, where prophets, priests, and kings were the three anointed offices, and Christ holds all three at once and permanently. As Prophet he speaks God's final word, as Priest he offers himself and intercedes, and as King he rules his people and all things for them.
BF&M 2000, Article II.B; Deuteronomy 18:15; Hebrews 7:24-25
Why not this one. This is real Christological Latin, which is what makes it tempting. It names the rule that the properties of either nature may be predicated of the one person, so that we can say the Lord of glory was crucified. It says nothing about the three offices.
Easy Doctrine — God & the Trinity
In the upper room discourse, what title does Jesus repeatedly give the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in his name?
- AThe HelperCorrect
- BThe Mediator
- CThe Shepherd
- DThe Firstborn
Answer: The Helper
John 14:26 · ESV
Jesus calls the Spirit the Helper, a word other versions render Comforter or Advocate. The title is personal throughout: this Helper teaches, reminds, bears witness and is spoken of as he, not it. He is also called another Helper, which places him alongside Christ himself rather than below the disciples' need. The Spirit is a person sent by the Father in the Son's name, not an impersonal energy.
John 14:16, 14:26, 15:26 and 16:7, spoken on the night Jesus was betrayed.
Why not this one. Mediator is a title of Christ, the one mediator between God and men in 1 Timothy 2:5, not a title Jesus gives the Spirit here.
Easy Doctrine — The Scriptures
In John 17:17 Jesus asks the Father to sanctify his disciples in the truth, and then says the Father's word is what?
- ATruthCorrect
- BLife
- CLight
- DSpirit
Answer: Truth
John 17:17 · ESV
Jesus does not say the word contains truth or leads to truth, but that it is truth. That identification is the ground of every later confession that Scripture is without error, and it is the means by which believers are set apart.
John 17:17, in the high priestly prayer on the night Jesus was betrayed, where he asks the Father to set his disciples apart by that word.
Why not this one. Jesus elsewhere says his words are spirit and life, but the clause in this verse identifies the Father's word specifically as truth, which is what makes it the instrument of sanctification.
Easy Miracles of the Bible
On which body of water did Jesus walk out to his disciples in the fourth watch of the night?
- AThe Sea of GalileeCorrect
- BThe Jordan River
- CThe Dead Sea
- DThe Mediterranean Sea
Answer: The Sea of Galilee
Matthew 14:25 · ESV
The disciples were crossing the Sea of Galilee when Jesus came to them walking on the water late in the night. Treading the waves is something Scripture ascribes to God alone, so the act is a claim about who Jesus is and not merely a rescue from the wind. Matthew marks the hour as the fourth watch, near dawn, after a night of rowing against a headwind.
Matthew 14:24-25 sets the scene on the lake the disciples were crossing.
Why not this one. The Jordan is where Jesus was baptized and where Naaman washed, but the walking on the water happened out on the open lake in Galilee, far from land.
Easy New Testament — Acts of the Apostles
To whom does Luke address the book of Acts in its opening verse?
- ATheophilusCorrect
- BTimothy
- CTitus
- DPhilemon
Answer: Theophilus
Acts 1:1 · ESV
Luke opens Acts by addressing Theophilus and pointing back to his first book, the Gospel that bears his name. The two volumes form one continuous account, carrying the story from what Jesus began to do and teach through to the arrival of the gospel in Rome.
Acts 1:1 names Theophilus and refers back to the earlier volume; Luke 1:3 addresses the same man by name at the start of the Gospel.
Why not this one. Timothy travels with Paul through much of the second half of Acts, and two New Testament letters are indeed written to him, but those letters are Paul's. Luke never addresses either of his two volumes to Timothy.
Easy New Testament — The Gospels
In the Parable of the Prodigal Son, what does the father place on the returning son’s finger as a sign of restored relationship?
- AA bracelet
- BA seal
- CA ringCorrect
- DA signet stone
Answer: A ring
Luke 15:22 · ESV
The father calls for three things at once, and each one restores something the son had forfeited: the best robe, the ring for his hand, and shoes for feet that had come home bare like a slave's. Then the fattened calf, which means a village-wide feast rather than a family dinner. All of it happens before any repentance speech is finished, and the elder brother's refusal to come in is where the parable actually stops.
Luke 15:22–24, 25–32.
Why not this one. A ring given in that setting probably was a signet, carrying the household's authority to transact, so the guess reaches for the right idea. But the text names the ring itself and says nothing about a seal or a stone.
Easy Old Testament — Genesis & Creation
From what was Eve formed?
- AA rib taken from Adam.Correct
- BDust from the ground.
- CClay formed by God’s hands.
- DA piece of Adam’s side and breath of life.
Answer: A rib taken from Adam.
Genesis 2:21–22 · ESV
God says it is not good for the man to be alone. Adam names the animals first, and among them no helper fit for him is found, which is the point of the exercise. Then God puts him into a deep sleep, takes one of his ribs, and builds the woman from it, and Adam's first recorded words are recognition: bone of his bones. Paul reaches back to this order of making in 1 Corinthians 11:8-9 and 1 Timothy 2:13.
Genesis 2:18–23
Why not this one. Dust is how Adam is made in Genesis 2:7, and the phrase is memorable enough to attach itself to Eve as well. The difference is deliberate: she is taken out of the man rather than formed separately, which is what makes the one-flesh union of Genesis 2:24 fitting.
Easy Old Testament — Joshua, Judges & Ruth
What was the name of Ruth’s mother-in-law?
- ANaomi.Correct
- BOrpah.
- CMara.
- DZilpah.
Answer: Naomi.
Ruth 1:2 · ESV
Naomi came back to Bethlehem after burying her husband Elimelech and both her sons, Mahlon and Chilion. She had left full and returned empty, and she said so to the women who met her. By the end of the book those same women are telling her that her daughter-in-law is worth more to her than seven sons.
Ruth 1:2-5, 20-21; Ruth 4:15
Why not this one. This is a name she genuinely asked for. Arriving home, she told the town not to call her Naomi, which suggests pleasantness, but Mara, meaning bitter, because the Almighty had dealt bitterly with her. The narrator never takes up the new name and keeps calling her Naomi.
Easy Old Testament — Moses & the Exodus
At the burning bush, what did the LORD tell Moses to do because the ground was holy?
- ATake his sandals off his feetCorrect
- BRemove his outer garment
- CWash before approaching
- DKneel and cover his head
Answer: Take his sandals off his feet
Exodus 3:5 · ESV
God warned Moses not to come near and commanded him to remove his sandals, because the place where he stood was holy ground. The command sets the distance between a holy God and a sinful man before any word of commission is spoken, and the commission follows only after the warning.
Exodus 3:1-6; the commander of the LORD's army gives Joshua the same command at Jericho in Joshua 5:15.
Why not this one. Moses did hide his face, afraid to look at God, but that was his own reaction in the following verse rather than a command, and Scripture says nothing about covering his head or kneeling.
Easy Old Testament — The Patriarchs
Joseph was appointed second-in-command over all of Egypt. What title did Pharaoh effectively give him in terms of authority over the land?
- AVizier and treasurer
- BOnly Pharaoh would be greater than JosephCorrect
- CChief steward of all Egypt
- DOverseer of grain and water
Answer: Only Pharaoh would be greater than Joseph
Genesis 41:40 · ESV
Pharaoh's words draw the single line that Joseph will not cross: with respect to the throne itself, Pharaoh remains greater, and in everything else Joseph's word governs the land. He is given the signet ring, fine linen, a gold chain, the second chariot, an Egyptian name and a wife from the priestly family of On. Genesis records the authority in terms of that one limit rather than assigning him a formal office.
Genesis 41:40-45
Why not this one. This is close to how historians describe the role, and it captures the practical scope of what Joseph did with the grain. Genesis gives him no such title, and describing his rank in Egyptian administrative terms goes beyond what the text says.
Easy People & Names
After wrestling with the angel of God, Jacob’s name was changed to what?
- AIsraelCorrect
- BJudah
- CJoseph
- DLevi
Answer: Israel
Genesis 32:28 · ESV
He was alone at the ford of the Jabbok, having sent his family across ahead of him, when a man wrestled him until daybreak and, unable to prevail, touched his hip and put it out of joint. Jacob refused to let go without a blessing, and the new name was the blessing. He named the place Peniel because he had seen God face to face and lived, and he limped away from it.
Genesis 32:22-31
Why not this one. This is the son who carries the royal line and gives his name to the southern kingdom, so it is a name weighted with national meaning. It was given to one of Jacob's twelve sons by Leah, not to Jacob himself.
Easy Places & Geography
At which city did the Lord confuse the language of mankind so that they were scattered over the face of all the earth?
- ABabelCorrect
- BNineveh
- CErech
- DUr
Answer: Babel
Genesis 11:8–9 · ESV
Settlers in the plain of Shinar set out to build a city and a tower reaching to heaven so they could make a name for themselves and avoid being dispersed. God came down, confused their speech, and scattered them anyway, and the name of the city sounds like the Hebrew word for confusion.
Genesis 11:1–9 tells of the tower, the confusion of language, and the scattering.
Why not this one. Erech was one of the cities of Nimrod's kingdom in the land of Shinar, listed alongside Babel in Genesis 10:10, so it sits in exactly the right region. But the tower, the confused speech, and the scattering are told of Babel alone.
Easy Doctrine — Christ
According to John 14:6, Jesus described himself as 'the way, and the truth, and the life,' and added that no one comes to the Father except through whom?
- AHim (Jesus)Correct
- BThe Holy Spirit
- CThe law and the prophets
- DThe apostles and their teaching
Answer: Him (Jesus)
John 14:6 · ESV
Thomas had just said the disciples did not know where Jesus was going, so they could not know the way. Jesus answers by making himself the road rather than describing one, and the exclusive clause that follows is his own, not a later hardening by the church. Access to the Father runs through the Son because the Son is the one who reveals him and who opens the way by his death.
John 14:1-11; Acts 4:12; 1 Timothy 2:5
Why not this one. In the same conversation Jesus promises the Helper who will come, so the Spirit is genuinely on the page. But the Spirit's work is to take what belongs to Christ and declare it to us, bringing us to the Son rather than serving as a second route to the Father.
Easy Doctrine — God & the Trinity
What term describes the conviction, taught throughout Scripture, that there is one God only?
- AMonotheismCorrect
- BPolytheism
- CHenotheism
- DPantheism
Answer: Monotheism
Deuteronomy 4:35 · ESV
Monotheism is the belief that only one God exists. Scripture does not merely say Israel should prefer the LORD to other gods; it says there is no other, and the doctrine of the Trinity is a statement about how that one God exists, never a retreat from his oneness.
Deuteronomy 4:35 and 6:4; Isaiah 45:5; 1 Corinthians 8:4.
Why not this one. Henotheism is worship of one god while allowing that others exist. Scripture denies the existence of the rivals outright, so this falls short of what the Bible teaches.
Easy Doctrine — The Scriptures
Revelation 22:18–19 pronounces a solemn warning against anyone who adds to or takes away from what?
- AThe words of the prophecy of that bookCorrect
- BThe visions given to Daniel
- CThe Gospel of John
- DThe teaching delivered to the church at Ephesus
Answer: The words of the prophecy of that book
Revelation 22:18–19 · ESV
John closes the canon's last book by warning that its words are not to be tampered with. The same principle appears at the beginning of the canon, where Israel is forbidden to add to or subtract from what God commanded.
Revelation 22:18–19, with parallel commands to Israel in Deuteronomy 4:2 and 12:32.
Why not this one. Daniel was told to shut up his words and seal the book until the time of the end, which is a different instruction. The warning at the close of Revelation concerns the prophecy of Revelation itself.
Easy Miracles of the Bible
Who saw a bush that burned with fire and yet was not consumed?
- AMosesCorrect
- BAbraham
- CElijah
- DIsaiah
Answer: Moses
Exodus 3:2-4 · ESV
Keeping his father-in-law's flock at Horeb, Moses turned aside to see a bush that blazed without burning up, and from it God called him by name and sent him to Egypt. The sign showed a presence that gives itself without being diminished. Moses was told to take off his sandals, because the ground where he stood was holy.
Exodus 3:2-4 records the bush and the call from within it.
Why not this one. Elijah met God at the same mountain, but in wind, earthquake, fire, and a low whisper after his flight from Jezebel; the unconsumed bush belongs to Moses' call.