Heresies & Councils Quiz

Which of the following are true of Gnosticism?

• Some spiritual people can learn secret knowledge, other material people cannot

• They created and circulated false gospels

• The Incarnation didn't happen

• Mary is not the mother of God

Who called the first ecumenical council?

• The bishops

• Pope Sylvester I

• Arius

• Constantine

What did they decide at Nicaea?

• Arianism was a heresy

• Mary is the mother of God

• The canon of scripture for the New Testament

• St. Nicholas has a mean right hook

Nestorius taught what he did because he had a problem with...

• What Arius taught

• Saying Mary was the mother of God

• Saying Jesus was divine

• Saying Jesus was human

The word ecumenical means...

• the Church authority

• by order of the pope

• the whole inhabited world

• doctrinal meeting

Theotokos means...

• The union of two natures in Jesus

• Mother of God

• Mary most holy

• Divine revelation

Docetism taught that...

• Jesus was more divine than human

• Jesus's humanity was just an illusion

• There are certain special people who have secret knowledge that can be saved

• Only the divine Jesus could do miracles

Which of the of the following are true about (formal) heretics?

• They are Christian but have the wrong idea about something

• They have been corrected and refuse to change their mind

• They lead others astray

• They are bishops with the authority to teach

The first ecumenical council was

• Nicaea

• Constantinople

• Vatican II

• Ephesus

What was the model the bishops looked to for how they should run the ecumenical councils?

• The Council of Nicaea

• The Council of Jerusalem

• Peter's speech on Pentecost

• The cooperation between Peter and Paul