Questions for BBC’s “The Story of God” Part II
1. Who is the father of Judaism, Christianity and Islam?
2. Why is the tomb of Abraham segregated?
3. Where did monotheism receive its first book of rules?
4. What do the local Bedouin tribes believe about Mount Sinai?
5. How is God’s exclusive contract with mankind, different in the monotheistic faiths?
6. Why were 3000 Jews massacred at mount Sinai?
7. Why was the Temple important?
8. What did the Roman general find in the Holy of Holies?
9. Why did devotion to the Temple caused unease among the prophets of the Hebrew Bible?
10. What happened at Lakhish in 701 BC?
11. How does Judaism explain why bad things happen to good people?
12. What is unique about some Jews views of the principle of divine justice?
13. What did Christianity start out as?
14. At the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem on Easter, orthodox Christians gather to witness which miracle?
15. How does Christianity go beyond the Jewish “love your neighbour”?
16. Who brought Jewish cult of Christianity to Gentile western Europe?
17. What was Paul’s opinion about who the good news was for?
18. What was different about Christianity and most Roman/Western religions?
19. What was Mithraism’s baptism like?
20. Why did Christianity succeed over Mithraism?
21. Who made Christianity legal in AD 313?
22. How many false beliefs (heresies) were there?
23. Why is the divinity of Christ important?
24. What does Islam mean?
25. What is the view of the trinity to Islam?
26. Where do Sunnis and Shi’ites differ?
27. Why do Shi’ite Muslims revere Hussein?
28. What is the juristic view of Islam?
29. What is the mystical view of Islam?
30. How many words are there in the Koran? How long did it take to write?
31. Why is the hajj (pilgrimage to Mecca) uniting rather than divisive?