What is the Bible?
The power of God that enabled people to write the words of Scripture?
Inspiration
What hovered over the face of the waters at the beginning of Genesis 1?
The Spirit of God or God's Spirit
The name of the forbidden tree.
The tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Name one of the results of the fall.
Answers will vary.
Name one thing the Bible is not.
Did not fall from heaven.
Not recitation.
Not the product of divine mind control.
The amount of books in the protestant Bible.
66
What God created Humanity to be.
His image bearers. His representatives.
The material the man is created with.
Dust/Mud
What did the serpent first say to the woman in the garden.
Did God say...?
The material a lot of the Bible was written on.
Papyrus
The language the majority of the Old Testament was written in.
Ancient Hebrew
What is one thing Genesis 1 reveals to us about God?
Brings order out of chaos
Created a good world.
Created Humanity as his image bearers.
God is a personal creator.
God created Humanity to be in community.
God is God and we are not.
What is the man's response to God when asked if he ate from the forbidden tree.
The woman you gave me... she gave it to me!
The amount books in the New Testament
27
The partnership that led to the writing of the Bible
Divine and Human partnership.
Name one way Genesis 1 differs from the Enuma Elish.
One God. v. Many Gods
No violence.
Humanity as image bearers vs. slaves.
Gishon
Pishon
Tigris
Euphrates
The curse placed on the serpent.
To crawl on its belly and to eat dust.
The amount of books in the Old Testament.
39
The Greek word that means "God-breathed"
Theopneustos
The Hebrew phrase that means "image of God"
B'tselem Elohim
The Hebrew used of both God and Women, meaning "helper."
Ezer
The prophetic word given by God regarding the serpent and the woman's offspring.
He will strike your head and you will strike his heel.
What is the Bible as defined in class.
The Bible is a library of 66 books written by 40ish authors, over more than a thousand years, that tells one story that leads to Jesus.