1. women

To whom did Jesus first trust the news of the resurrection?

2. Deacon means servant while Elder and Bishop means overseer

Know the meaning of Deacon, Elder, and Bishop

3. believers received three years of training before baptism

Early Christians would have to undergo what before baptism?

4. Believer, Infant

What kind of baptism was practice?

5. Jesus Christ never became flesh

What did gnostics believe? About Jesus?

6. the wrathful God of the Jewish Scriptures was not the same deity as the Father of Jesus Christ. The God of the Jewish people was, Marcion claimed, a lower deity, the Creator of the physical world

What did Marcion believe about God's relationship to the Old Testament?

7. a deity who would never punish anyone or resurrect anyone's physical body

What did Marcion believe about God and punishment?

8. Marcion, 11, an edited version of Luke's Gospel, ten of Paul's letters

Who was the first person to create a canon of Scripture for the church? How many books were in his canon? Which Gospel? Which other books?

9. Among early Christians, testimony that could be connected to eyewitnesses of the risen Lord was considered to be uniquely authoritative, Eyewitnesses or close associate, No contradictions, recognized worldwide

What were the criteria for canonicity? Or, in other words, how did early Christians know that a book or writing was authoritative?

10. they made false predictions; they called for stricter moral standards than the Scriptures

What could be said of the new prophets?