COMA
What does COMA stand for?
Context
Observation
Meaning
Application
What happens the more time you spend observing something?
It becomes more interesting.
You notice more details.
You enjoy it more.
You understand it better.
What does a plot begin with?
characters and setting
What two main ways can characters be described in meaningful ways?
1. their appearance
2. the meaning of their names
What are the main parts of patterns?
key words and images
This question belongs to which part of COMA?
"Does this passage require that we change the attitudes we hold?"
Application
Narrative makes up ______% of the Bible.
43%
This part of plot is when the main character has a problem.
Conflict
True or False?
We are supposed to copy Bible characters in every single way.
False.
The example of sin's temptation included:
1)seeing something and desiring it
2)????????
3) Negative Consequences
2) Taking it
This question belongs to which part of COMA?
"Where does this passage fit in the Bible?"
Context
What does it mean to meditate on Scripture?
To think on again and again.
Like a cow: chew on it and chew on it again.
This part of plot moves to its highest point of stress.
climax
Jacob is described as smooth, and Esau is described as hairy. Why?
Jacob was a slippery, trickster. Esau was a hunter, animal-like.
Give an example of a character falling to sin's temptation:
adam and eve+fruit=fall;
Abraham+Hagar=Ishmael
Aaron+golden calf=angry God/Moses
David+Bathsheba=murder
This question belongs to which part of COMA?
"What does this passage teach us about God, Jesus, God's people, or the world?"
Meaning
Does God try to answer every question that man has with the way he has had the Bible written?
No
After the climax, characters usually undergo change. True or False?
True
Narrative often gives us the words and actions of characters, but does not usually tell us the characters motives. We must interpret whether the actions were right or wrong based upon what?
The outcomes of the characters actions/words.
In the life of Jesus, what happens to many of the patterns found in the Old Testament?
They are reversed.
This question belongs to which part of COMA?
"Are there any words that seem particularly important or hard to understand?"
Observation
What are the three main types of literary style in the Bible?
Narrative, Poetry, Discourse
A narrative usually concludes with some form of ___________. Meaning that the conflict reached its peak, the character went through that event, and now things are finished.
Resolution.
Give an example of the meaning of a Bible character's name.
many options.
How dis Jesus reverse the pattern of sin/temptation we see in the Old Testament.
Choosing death (the Father's will, not his own) and result is salvation for all who believe.