Our God is a good God. He has revealed His eternal love for us through all His prophets in all the scriptures appearing in the chapters from Genesis to Revelation in the Bible. The Bible has remained to this day the most widely read book ever.
Did you know that more than 168,000 copies of the Bible are either being sold or given away everyday in the United States alone?
How much do you really know of God’s set of instructions given to mankind?
Here is a simple test, a set of questions that should make you want to go to read the Bible all over again. After studying them you should feel enriched and refreshed again. Here they are…
Bible Quiz questions:
1. According to the Bible, in how many days did God create the World?
2. What was this God’s name who created the world?
3. Who in the Bible is considered as the patriarch of Jews, Christians and Muslims?
4. At what age did Abraham and Sarah give birth to their son Isaac?
5. He was hated by his brothers because his father Jacob loved him the most as he was the youngest child. In the end this boy had to flee to Egypt where God him the Prime Minister of the whole country. Name this well known biblical character
6. What is the name of this sea that Moses commanded its waters to recede to help the slaves from escaping Pharoah’s army?
7. On the top of which mountain did God give Moses ‘The Ten Commandments’ to be handed over to the Jewish people?
8. “Every place that the sole of your feet shall tread upon, that I give to thee. No man shall be able to stand before thee all the days of your life. I shall not fail thee nor forsake thee.” To whom did the Lord give this famous promise and when?
9. What was the peculiarity of Samson, the man whom God chose to lead the Jewish slaves to their promised land?
10. Who in the Bible is considered as the most beautiful woman of her time?
11. Who was the tallest man mentioned in the Bible?
12. Who was King David’s paramour?
13. Who in the Bible is considered as the wisest and the richest king ever?
14. Name this famous prophet who brought rain to the people in the desert.
15. He became deranged after he lost all his wealth but God restored him in the end. Name this famous character.
16. Name the most famous and widely used scriptures from the chapter on “Isaiah”
17. How many psalms do we find in all in the Bible?
18. This is the most famous of all the proverbs in the chapter on ‘Proverbs.’ Say this proverb
19. Which is the last chapter from the Old Testament and why is this chapter so important?
20. Which is the scripture in the Bible that just about sums up the gospel message of the Lord Jesus Christ?
21. Why did the Lord God Jehowah, the Creater of the universe, send His Son Jesus Christ to suffer and die for us on this earth?
22. Whom did God send on this Earth as a messenger before the coming of Jesus Christ?
23. Who were the earthly parents of Jesus?
24. At what age did Jesus begin his final ministry?
25. Jesus was particularly fond of one family of 2 sisters and their brother. To prove God’s glory, Jesus raised this brother to life after he was dead for more than 4 days. Who was this man? Hint: His sisters were Martha and Mary.
26. Which sin according to Jesus was the unpardonable sin of all time?
27. Who amongst His disciples did betray Jesus to the Pharises?
28. Just before He gave up His life on the cross, Jesus said “It is finished.” What exactly did Jesus mean by saying this?
29. What is the greatest commandment that Jesus has given us?
30. From amongst all His apostles, this man is considered today as the greatest follower of the Holy Spirit. He had persecuted everyone before Jesus appeared to him in a vision on the road to Damascus. He travelled widely to spread the message of Jesus Christ all over the world. Who is this most famous biblical character?
Answers to Bible quiz:
1. 6 days
2. Jehowah or El Elyon
3. Abraham
4. Isaac was born to Sarah when Abraham was 100 years old. Sarah was 90. This is one of the miracles from the Bible
5. Joseph
6. The Red Sea
7. On Mt. Sinai
8. Joshua. In Joshua, Chapter 1, verses 1-8, the Lord gives these great promises of support to the Jewish people through Joshua soon after Moses, their savior had finally died.
9. Samson’s hair. His strength was in his hair which was cut by Delilah to make him lose his power.
10. Queen Esther. She used beauty treatments to the extent that she wanted to participate in the king’s beauty contests.
11. Goliath. He was over 9 feet tall and was killed in battle by David.
12. Bathsheba.
13. King Solomon. He had servants counting his gold all the 365 days of the year. He once told his people counting the silver “Get that junk out of here!” Bill Gates today would have looked like a pauper in front of him. God blessed Solomon because he obeyed God by building a temple for Him.
14. Prophet Elijah. After King Solomon died, Israel had a new king Ahab who was very mean. So the Lord sent word to Ahab that only if Elijah prayed for rain, they would have rain after the drought.
15. Job.
16. “He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our inequities, Our chastisement for peace was up on Him, and by His Stripes we are healed” and “no weapon formed against you shall prosper, and every tongue that rises against you in judgement, you shall condemn.”
17. 150.
18. “Death and life are in the power of the tongue”
19. Malachi. It is here that God reminds us of the tithes that belong to God. That is, 10% of all our earnings to be offered to God as a test of our obedience.
20. Gospel of John, Chapter 3, verse 16 which states “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.”
21. When God made the first Man Adam, he gave him the authority to rule the earth and to live in prosperity without wanting in anything. But as we know Adam disobeyed God by eating the fruit of the forbidden tree. When Adam disobeyed God, Adam gave his complete authority to Satan who had tempted Adam to disobey God. Everything on this earth was turned over to the Devil who began to rule the Earth. According to God’s own law, only a man with a physical body could come on the earth. Somebody had to pay for Adam’s unpardonable sin of disobedience. All those who had followed Adam all through the years until Jesus came were also considered as sinners. So it was a Man with a blood type G who came on this earth as a man with a physical body (God’s own law), suffered and paid the price for all the sins that everyone had committed. After dying on the cross on Good Friday, Jesus went down to Hell, took back the authority from Satan which Adam had handed over to Him and rose from the dead in the glorious resurrection on Easter Sunday. So God sent Jesus to redeem all mankind from their sinfulness.
22. John, the Baptist. God sent John the Baptist to announce the Messiah’s coming to Israel and to the impending judgment if they failed to receive him.
23. Joseph, the carpenter and Mary were the earthly parents of Jesus.
24. According to the gospel of St. Luke, Jesus was around 30 years old when he started his ministry.
25. Lazarus. Jesus consoles his 2 sisters before raising him to life from the tomb.
26. The sin against the Holy Spirit. According to Jesus every other sin could be forgiven, but not the one against the Holy Spirit.
27. His disciple Judas Iscariot. He betrayed Jesus for 30 pieces of silver.
28. Jesus was saying that His mission on this Earth was accomplished. He had redeemed all mankind of their sin by dying that terrible death on the cross.
29. “Love one another as I have loved you.”
30. St. Paul. He was a Jew named Saul before his conversion to Paul
All the questions and answers compiled and presented here are by Mr. Sunder Venkataram, Thane (Maharashtra)
