Q 01/05

James 2 closes with the verdict that faith without works is what?

A) Blind

B) Dead

C) Weak

D) Asleep

Answer · why

B) Dead

Dead is James's verdict, and his example is telling a cold, hungry person to 'be warmed and filled' while handing over nothing the body needs.

Q 02/05

According to James 3, which small part of the body can no human tame, unlike every kind of animal?

A) The eye

B) The ear

C) The tongue

D) The right hand

Answer · why

C) The tongue

The tongue is called a restless evil, and James complains that the same mouth praises God and then curses people made in God's likeness.

Q 03/05

James 1 says anyone who lacks which quality should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault?

A) Wisdom

B) Courage

C) Strength

D) Comfort

Answer · why

A) Wisdom

Wisdom is promised to whoever asks, but James adds a condition: the request must be made in faith, because a doubter should not expect to receive anyt...

Q 04/05

James 4 tells merchants planning a year of profit that they are what, appearing briefly and then vanishing?

A) A shadow

B) A dream

C) A spark

D) A mist

Answer · why

D) A mist

A mist is all a person amounts to in James's picture, which is why he calls confident talk about tomorrow's business a form of boasting.

Q 05/05

Which Reformation leader derided the Epistle of James as an 'epistle of straw' and doubted an apostle wrote it?

A) John Calvin

B) Martin Luther

C) Ulrich Zwingli

D) John Knox

Answer · why

B) Martin Luther

Martin Luther objected to what James says about faith and works, yet he still kept the letter in his German Bible, moving it to the end.