Bible Quiz—it's fun and challenging

[Aractus]

[Minimalist]

for pointing out that the first question is misleading in that there are two different sets of Ten Commandments and so two correct answers to the question.

Of course....that raises the question "why are there two?" Did "god" forget?

[Optimistic Mysanthrope]

Revised edition

[Jacob(smooth)]

We have an edit button, why shouldn't he?

[Cyberman]

We need one to correct our mistakes (and clean up after you lot, if you're Staff). Call me picky, but I'd expect a bit more in the way of accuracy from someone in charge of running the Universe.

[xpastor]

Thanks, however what about the Name of God (Q3)? I would have thought I made a very strong point on this one.

A multiple choice question is flawed if it contains two correct answers as in #1. However, a multiple choice question is legitimate as long as it has only one correct answer, even if it neglects to mention other correct answers. In the answers the author of the test implicitly accepts the Tetragrammaton JHWH as a name of God but rules out the formation of Jehovah, which was one of the four choices along with Jealous, Holy and Righteous.

[Aractus]

I agree with the premise with what you're saying, but not the detail.

Well that's plainly incorrect as Jehovah/Yehovah/Jehowah/Yehowah is a direct transliteration as is YHWH, and does not represent anything other than the Tetragrammaton. Yahweh is a composite, and not a direct transliteration. Just like Jesus is a transliteration of ἸΗΣΟῦΣ which itself represents and is a translation of ישוע another transliteration from Hebrew is جسس. Nobody argues that Jesus/Joshua/Yesus/Yoshua/Jeshua/Yeshua isn't all the same Hebrew name - and we all agree that "Jesus" was never the correct pronunciation of the Hebrew name, and just because it was written down transliterated into Greek doesn't mean it was ever vocalized at the time of Christ as a Greek variant. Yet that doesn't make his name being "Jesus" as opposed to "Joshua" wrong, and the same applies to the Tetragrammaton, and the fact that it too can be transliterated in different ways into English.

And in order to make his argument he is appealing to Christian apologetics, Christian scholars for his answer. He doesn't get his answer from the Jews, which use "Yehovah" (although they don't say it - well actually some do and that's how we know how the Jews pronounce it), or from the Muslims who teach that the Tetragrammaton isn't a name. But even so, all Christians pretty much recognize that any why you write the Tetragrammaton as a transliteration: YHVH/YHVH/JHWH/YHWH/Jehovah/Yehovah/Jehowah/Yehowah/Jahweh/Yahweh you are writing one and the same thing. The question didn't ask anything about vocalization, and in written form virtually all Christians would agree that all are correct, and in written form they are all equal, and we even recognize LORD as representing it too.

[xpastor]

I agree with the premise with what you're saying, but not the detail.

... Nobody argues that Jesus/Joshua/Yesus/Yoshua/Jeshua/Yeshua isn't all the same Hebrew name - and we all agree that "Jesus" was never the correct pronunciation of the Hebrew name, and just because it was written down transliterated into Greek doesn't mean it was ever vocalized at the time of Christ as a Greek variant. Yet that doesn't make his name being "Jesus" as opposed to "Joshua" wrong, and the same applies to the Tetragrammaton, and the fact that it too can be transliterated in different ways into English.

And in order to make his argument he is appealing to Christian apologetics, Christian scholars for his answer. He doesn't get his answer from the Jews, which use "Yehovah" (although they don't say it - well actually some do and that's how we know how the Jews pronounce it), or from the Muslims who teach that the Tetragrammaton isn't a name. But even so, all Christians pretty much recognize that any why you write the Tetragrammaton as a transliteration: YHVH/YHVH/JHWH/YHWH/Jehovah/Yehovah/Jehowah/Yehowah/Jahweh/Yahweh you are writing one and the same thing. The question didn't ask anything about vocalization, and in written form virtually all Christians would agree that all are correct, and in written form they are all equal, and we even recognize LORD as representing it too.

I can't offer a definitive rebuttal of this, just a comment to bear in mind. The Jews do not necessarily know how their language was pronounced many centuries ago. A long time ago back in grad school I studied Old Norse. Modern Icelandic is but little changed from that in grammar. However, the Icelanders believe the pronunciation is equally unchanged over the centuries, a view not shared by any linguists outside Iceland.

When I was in the ministry, I avoided the name Jehovah like the plague because of the JWs.

[Bad Writer]

37/50. People actually believe in this shit?

[xpastor]

37/50. People actually believe in this shit?

Well, no, not this particular shit. They believe an assortment of cherry-picked proof texts which they have been fed in Bible studies and sermons and (for pastors) seminary classes. But as for the raw unfiltered Bible which most of these were taken from, as someone once said, for most Christians the Bible is like the software license agreement—you click Agree without reading it.