Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. Paul's conviction that Jesus had privately revealed to him the one true gospel isolated him from many fellow believers.
2. Most of Paul's letters were composed under the pressure of meeting an emergency in a given church.
3. In Paul's view, it is God's grace—his undeserved kindness and mercy—that opens the way to salvation for Jews and Gentiles.
4. Paul's first letter to the Corinthians appears to be his oldest surviving correspondence.
5. For Paul, Abraham represented the model of one man "justified" by faith.


1. TRUE
2. TRUE
3. TRUE
4. FALSE
5. TRUE

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A) Subalternation. (Und.) B) Subcontrary. (Und.) C) Obversion. (T) D) Contraposition. (T) E) Contradictory. (F)

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a) Singer's b) Kant's c) Grodin's d) Mill's.

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