What is God’s Good Creation?
What is “Ruach”?
Wind
In the Literal sense, one looks at the words the author used and what those words convey on their own. It is determined through Biblical Criticism.
Where is the first creation account found?
Genesis 1
Where is the second creation account found?
Genesis 2.
“The earth was a formless ____ and darkness covered the face of the deep, while a ____ from God swept over the face of the waters.”
Genesis 1:1-5; void, wind
What was sin the loss of?
Original holiness and original justice.
What are the two senses of scripture?
Literal and Spiritual
The first creation account conveys ________ _____ about God.
Spiritual truths
______ are the caretakers of creation.
Humans
“Ever since the creation of the world his eternal power and divine nature, …, have been __________ and seen through the things he has _____.”
Romans 1:18-23; understood, made
What does Baptism restore?
Original Holiness
What are the two ways the Catholic Church reads scripture?
Typological (Old Testament prefigures Jesus) and Christological (God’s plan of salvation moves towards Jesus)
What other culture’s creation story is the first creation account related to?
Enuma Elish (Babylonian creation account)
What does the the second creation account serves as an etiology for?
Marriage.
“For in him all _____ in heaven and on earth were created, things visible and invisible,... —all things have been _______ through him and for him.”
Colossians 1:15-20; things, created
The entire ______ is responsible for all of creation.
Trinity.
What is Spiritual Sense and what are the three types?
What happened on the first three days of creation?
Light and darkness, sky separated from the waters by a dome, land separated from water.
God desires a __________ with ________.
“Yet you have made them a little lower than God, and crowned them with _____ and _____.”
Psalm 8:1-9; glory, honor
What does creation represent?
God’s love.
What are the different methods of biblical criticism?
Historical Analysis, Source Analysis, Redaction Analysis, and Form Analysis
What happened on the last four days of creation?
Bodies of light created (sun, moon, stars), creatures of sky and sea, land animals and humans, rest day.
What does the second creation account emphasize?
The covenantal relationship between God, Adam and Eve, and creation.
“Just like the ____ in the potter’s hand, so are you in my ____, O house of Israel.”
Jeremiah 18:1-6; clay, hand