6. What influence do the Bible and history show working in the church immediately after apostolic
days?
Answer
"Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them."
Acts 20: 30.
NOTE-"In the interval between the days of the apostles and the conversion of Constantine, the
Christian commonwealth changed its aspect. . . . Rites and ceremonies of which neither Paul nor Peter ever
heard, crept silently into use, and then claimed the rank of divine institutions."-Dr. W. D. Killen's
(Presbyterian) "The Ancient Church," Preface.
By what name are the sacred writings of the Bible commonly known?
In what scripture does Christ apply the same emblem to Himself ?
Who awakens the soul to a sense of its sinful condition?
What promise is made to those who repent and are baptized ?
Where were the Ten Commandments placed?
Who gives this rest from sin?
14. What scripture for ever precludes the idea that the dead come back to earth to communicate with the living?
Questions & Answers are from the book Bible Readings for the Home Circle