Identity: God's design
According to Genesis 1:26-27, Humanity was created in two things connected to God
What are God's image and likeness
This young Hebrew "purposed in his heart" that he would not defile himself
Who is Daniel
Let us make man in our image after our likeness
Who is God
According to John 17:3 eternal life involves doing this
What is knowing God and Jesus Christ who He sent
This word describes enemies being brought back into peace and restored realtionship.
What is reconciliation?
Biblically, which comes first? Identity or behavior?
what is: Identity
Convince me that my identity is more than my name
Daniel's name was changed but his allegiance and identity before God remained.
Your Creator has authority to define your idenity
What is Bible
Genesis 1:26-27
Everybody does it, so I don't see anything wrong with it.
what is Babylon
Before culture, parents, friends, social media, school, or society could tell humanity who they were, this Person has already defined them.
Who is God
Name at least three things Babylon attempted to change or control concerning Daniel and his friends.
Environment/location, Education, language, literature, names, diet, cultural information
"let us make a name for ourselves"
who are the people of Babel
True or False: The primary meaning of Christianity is simply avoiding hell
what is False
Salvation brings believers into God's family as His children. This doctrine is called?
What is adoption?
Fill in the blank: Identity - ____ -choice - Character
what is Conviction/belief
Convince me that Christianity is more than going to heaven
John 17:3 defines eternal life relationally as knowing God.
Just be whoever you feel you are
what is Culture
I can learn from my culture without making my culture my moral authority
what is Daniel
Genesis 3 shows that Satan began attacking humanity's identity by attacking this first.
What is God's word and their trust in God's character
True or false? Daniel refused to learn Babylonian language and literature because doing so would compromise his identity
What is False
"Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself"
what is Daniel 1:8
According to Jeremiah 9:23-24, we should not ultimately boast in wisdom, strength or riches. We should boast in this
understanding and knowing the Lord
This biblical term means being set apart for God and transformed toward holiness
What is sanctification
Babylon changed Daniel's name. Why didn't Daniel's new name successfully change his identity?
Babylon could change his name but it could not change to who he belonged
Convince me that knowing about God isn't necessarily the same as knowing God
Information is not identical to relationship.
Salvation means being saved from hell
what is Half-truth
People have changed what they call me, so eventually I have to become what they call me.
what is Babylon
According to 2 Corinthians 5:17, anyone who is in Christ becomes this.
Complete this statement: "You can live in Babylon without _______"
what is "Babylon living in you."
"Do not be conformed to this world"
What is Romans 12:2
What is the difference between knowing about God and knowing God?
Knowing about God involves information
Knowing God involves relational knowledge expressed through trust, communion, love, obedience and lived fellowship with Him.
who sanctifies us? God or Us?
Ultimately, God sanctifies us while believers actively respond to His sanctifying work through faith and obedience
What us wrong with this statement?
"I need to change myself first so God will accept me."
It reverses the gospel. God's grace saves; the saved person is then transformed.
Convince me that Daniel could learn Babylon without becoming babylon
Daniel learned Babylonian language and literature according to Daniel 1:4. Yet Daniel 1:8 shows that he established a boundary when participation conflicted with his allegiance to God
God loves me so how I live doesn't matter
What is half-truth
I can disagree with my culture without hating or disrespecting people within my culture
what is Daniel
Put these events in biblical order:
Babylon - Christ - Creation - Babel - Fall
What is Creation - Fall - Babel - Babylon - Christ
Explain the difference between adaptation and assimilation
Adaptation: adjusting how you function within an environment
Assimilation: allowing the environment to redefine who you are and what you believe
"And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent"
What is John 17:3
a teenager says: "if there were no hell, I wouldn't need Christianity" what is incomplete about this understanding?
it reduces salvation to escaping punishment rather than being reconciled to God. Humanity's relationship with God existed before the fall.
Explain: "We work out because God works in"
Believers actively live out the implications of salvation because God is already working within them producing willing and working according to His good purpose
Someone says:
"I believe God exists and Jesus died for me. I don't want to go to hell, but I don't really want a relationship with God. What is spiritually missing?
Beling facts + avoiding punishment rather than
reconciliation + knowing God + belonging to God +transformation through relationship with God.
Convince me that relationship with God would still matter if there were no hell.
Relationship with God existed before sin entered humanity's experience.
If everybody around me believes something, there must be some truth to it
What is Culture
Babylon gave Daniel Babylonian education, literature, language, food and new name. Daniel needed to reject absolutely everything Babylonian to protect his identity
What is Neither (hahahaha) He didn't reject everything