The Truth (Genesis 1)
"In the beginning, God created the ______ and the ____."
"God created the heaven and the earth."
The second account of creation begins in Genesis 2:6, when "there went up a ____ from the earth,"
mist
According to Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, what is the scientific statement of being?
"There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter. All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all. Spirit is immortal Truth; matter is mortal error. Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal. Spirit is God, and man is His image and likeness. Therefore man is not material; he is spiritual."
What is Adam's "original sin"?
Eating the apple
Who picked the apple from tree of the knowledge of good and evil?
Eve
"And God said let their be ____: and there was ____."
light
According to Genesis 2, the Lord God made man from what?
"The dust of the ground."
From Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy: "The ________ has no beginning. This word beginning is employed to signify the only, — that is, the eternal verity and unity of God and man, including the universe. The creative Principle — Life, Truth, and Love — is ___. The universe reflects ___."
"The infinite has no beginning. This word beginning is employed to signify the only, — that is, the eternal verity and unity of God and man, including the universe. The creative Principle — Life, Truth, and Love — is God. The universe reflects God."
Who are Adam and Eve's sons?
Cain and Abel
Who gave Adam the apple to eat?
Eve
"And God said let us make man in our ____ after our _____."
". . . in our image after our likeness."
When does the Bible describe the Lord God as creating the serpent?
Trick question! When the serpent first appears in Genesis 3:1, its creation is not mentioned.
From Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy: "There is but one _______ and one ________. This ________ consists of the unfolding of spiritual ideas and their identities, which are embraced in the infinite Mind and forever reflected. These ideas range from the infinitesimal to infinity, and the highest ideas are the ____ and _________ of God."
"There is but one creator and one creation. This creation consists of the unfolding of spiritual ideas and their identities, which are embraced in the infinite Mind and forever reflected. These ideas range from the infinitesimal to infinity, and the highest ideas are the sons and daughters of God."
In Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, the definition of Adam begins, "Error; a falsity; the belief in 'original sin,' sickness, and _____; evil; the opposite of ____."
"Error; a falsity; the belief in 'original sin,' sickness and death; evil; the opposite of good."
According to Genesis 2, before forming Eve, the Lord God caused what to fall on Adam?
A "deep sleep"
"And God saw everything that he had ____, and behold, it was very ____."
". . . he had made, and behold, it was very good."
In Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, "serpent" is defined as "Subtlety; a lie; the ________ of Truth, named _____."
"Subtlety; a lie; the opposite of Truth, named error."
From Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy: "Spirit, God, gathers unformed ________ into their proper channels, and unfolds these ________, even as He opens the petals of a holy _______ in order that the _______ may appear."
"Spirit, God, gathers unformed thoughts into their proper channels, and unfolds these thoughts, even as He opens the petals of a holy purpose in order that the purpose may appear."
(SH 506:18)
St. Paul writes, " . . . as in ______ all die, even so in ____ shall all be made alive."
Bonus: In S&H, how does Mary Baker Eddy interpret the two words in the blanks above?
". . . as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive."
Bonus Answer: “As in Adam [error] all die, even so in Christ [Truth] shall all be made alive.”
(SH 545:31–32)
According to Genesis 2, the Lord God made Eve from what?
Adam's rib.
[God gave man] ". . . ______ over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth."
dominion
From Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy: "The serpent enters into the metaphor only as ____. We have nothing in the animal kingdom which represents the species described, — a talking serpent, — and should rejoice that ____, by whatever figure presented, contradicts itself and has neither origin nor support in Truth and good. Seeing this, we should have faith to fight all claims of ____, because we know that they are worthless and ______.
"The serpent enters into the metaphor only as evil. We have nothing in the animal kingdom which represents the species described, — a talking serpent, — and should rejoice that evil, by whatever figure presented, contradicts itself and has neither origin nor support in Truth and good. Seeing this, we should have faith to fight all claims of evil, because we know that they are worthless and unreal.
(SH 529:22)
In Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, she writes, "Man and woman as coexistent and ____ with God forever reflect, in glorified quality, the infinite Father-______ God."
"Man and woman as coexistent and eternal with God forever reflect, in glorified quality, the infinite Father-Mother God."
From Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy: "Man is not ______; he is not made up of brain, blood, _____, and other material elements. The Scriptures inform us that man is made in the image and likeness of God. ______ is not that likeness."
"Man is not matter; he is not made up of brain, blood, bones, and other material elements. The Scriptures inform us that man is made in the image and likeness of God. Matter is not that likeness."
(SH 475:6–10)
In Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, the definition of Eve includes, ". . . the belief that the human race originated _______ instead of spiritually."
materially