Identify a True Statement About Old Believers

question 31

Multiple Choice

Identify a true statement about Old Believers.

• A) They welcomed the church reforms to correct mistranslations in Russian versions of the Bible.
• B) They saw the reformers as a band of cunning Greek scholars perpetrating the work of Antichrist.
• C) They refused to support Stephen Razin's rebellion and the sporadic peasant uprisings that followed.
• D) They believed the writings of the Old Testament to be the true word of God and rejected the New Testament.

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