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1. According to the Bible, was Eve created from Adam's rib after Adam had been alone for a time, or were Adam and Eve created together?
2. According to the Book of Proverbs, should you answer a fool?
3. In the Old Testament, Numbers, Chapter 20, verse 12, Moses is punished by God: "...you shall not lead this assembly into the land I am giving them." Later in the story, Moses dies, after viewing the Promised Land from a distant mountain. According to the New Testament, does Moses enter the Promised Land?
4. According to Matthew's Gospel, Chapter 10, Jesus sends his twelve apostles out on a "training" mission, to cure the sick, raise the dead and cast out devils. Amongst other things, Jesus tells them not to bring a walking stick. When recounting the same story, does Mark's Gospel agree with Matthew?
5. Jesus casts out devils into the bodies of pigs. Then the pigs run down a cliff and drown themselves in a lake. This story is told by three Gospel writers, Matthew, Mark and Luke. Why is Matthew's version different?
6. In Luke, Chapter 23, verses 44-49, there is a description of Jesus' death on the cross. The sequence goes: 1) At three, it was dark and eclipsed, 2) The Temple drapes are torn right down the middle, 3) He cries out (father, into your hands I commend my spirit) and 4) He dies. What do Matthew's and Mark's versions have in common about this event?
7. Three of the Gospels place Mary of Magdala at the foot of the cross when Jesus dies. Those three enumerations also contain names of women who were there. Which Gospel writer includes a man?
8. Which Gospel does not say that Mary of Magdala was the first to see the resurrected Jesus?
9. Who in the Bible disagrees with all the Gospel accounts of the resurrected Jesus' first apparitions?
10. According to the Gospel of John, Thomas was absent when Jesus appeared for the first time to the apostles on the evening of the resurrection. This is when Jesus breathed the Spirit upon the apostles. Therefore, Thomas was an apostle without the Spirit.
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