Genesis 1-11
Finish this verse, Genesis 1:1
In the Beginning,
God created the heavens and the earth.
Who did God call for His service in Genesis 12? Think about the next big Bible character after Noah?
Abram!
Who was Abraham's child of promise?
Isaac
What are 2 attributes of God we can learn from Genesis 1:1?
God is a creator, and is eternal
What was Abrams wife's name?
Sarai
Abraham bore a child to Sarah's servant. what was the names of the servant and the child?
Hagar was Sarah's servant and Ismael was the child
What is the one tree God told Adam and Eve NOT to eat of in the garden?
The tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Sarai, longing for a child, urged Abram to take a mistress named
Hagar
What did God do to Sodom?
Destroyed it by fire and brimstone
What was God's commission to mankind in Genesis 1:28?
Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
Why did Abram lie about his wife in Egypt?
She was so beautiful that he thought they may kill him to get her!
Abraham pleaded with God to save the righteous citizens of
Sodom
What did God say about the creation of man?
Let US make man in OUR image and after OUR likeness
What were the 2 big problems that Abraham faced with God's promise of offspring and land?
1- Sarah was barren
2- the land was inhabited
Muslims consider themselves to be descendants of
Ishmael
What was the covenant God made with Noah and what was the sign of that covenant? Genesis 9:11-13
Not to flood the earth again.
12And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant that I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all future generations: 13I have set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth.
What does Genesis 16:6 say and what doctrine does this point to?
Abraham ________ and it was counted to him as ______________.
Believed, righteousness
Justification by faith alone
The account of Abram and Sarai is the first example in the Bible of God making a covenant with one particular_________.
Family
Who were the first two of Adam's sons? and which one killed the other?
Cain and Abel, Cain killed Abel
Covenant language is part of American history, including the ___________, an agreement among members of Plymouth Colony
Mayflower Compact
What did Sarah do when God said she would have a child?
She laughed
Why does it say that God flooded the world? Genesis 6:5
The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
In God's covenant with Abraham what 4 things do we see promised?
Offspring, land, blessing of a great nation, and all the nations blessed through him.
In the account, Lot’s wife turned into a __________ because she looked back at the destruction of her city.
pillar of salt
What does Genesis 3 say about the consequences for sin and the snake. I will put ___________ between you and the woman. He will bruise your ______ and you shall bruise his ___________.
"I will put enmity between you and the woman,
and between your offspring and her offspring;
he shall bruise your head,
and you shall bruise his heel.”
Is it true that Jews trace their ancestry through Abraham’s son, Ishmael.
False... It is Isaac
The scripture of Islam, the ___, refers many times to Abraham, repeating , enlarging upon, and sometimes contradicting some of the details in Genesis.
Qur'an
List the days of creation in order!
{land, vegetation} {Fish, birds} {sky, water}
{Animals of earth, mankind} {Light, darkness}
{Sun, moon, stars}
1- light/darkness 2- sky, water
3-land, vegetation 4- sun, moon, stars
5- fish, birds
6- animals of earth, mankind
Abram and Sarai were citizens of ____________, a great center of Mesopotamian civilization.
Ur
How many chapters are in Genesis?
50 Chapters