1 Peter 1 - Introduction

QUESTIONS OVER CHAPTER ONE

1.

What is the meaning of the name Peter?

2.

Who are the elect?

3.

How are Christians sojourners?

4.

What was the Dispersion in the mind of a Jew? How is this term used in 1 Peter 1:1?

5.

Define foreknowledge.

6.

How did God beget us again?

7.

Why does a Christian have a living hope?

8.

List four identifying marks of the Christian's inheritance.

9.

How is our faith proved?

10.

Why does a Christian rejoice greatly with joy unspeakable and full of glory?

11.

What is the end of our faith in Christ?

12.

What two classes or groups of persons are spoken of as being very interested in matters pertaining to our salvation?

13.

What, specifically, did the prophets want to know?

14.

By what Spirit did the prophets speak? (Explain your answer.)

15.

How are a Christian's blessings superior to an angel'S?

16.

What is pictured in the phrase, girding up the loins of your minds?

17.

How does Peter appeal to his readers to live holy lives? (1 Peter 1:13-16.)

18.

How does God judge?

19.

How does this compare with the judgment of man?

20.

We were not redeemed with ________________________________________?

21.

We were redeemed with ___________________________________________?

22.

When was Christ foreknown?

23.

Where is our faith and hope to be?

25.

What is the nature of the seed by which we were begotten?

26.

All flesh is likened unto ________________ and its glory unto __________________________________________________.

27.

To whom was this word of good tidings preached?