NAMES/GOD'S NAME
Finish the following sentence with a phrase that we learned in this class:
There is ______________ in God's name.
- help, protection, power, authority, victory, confidence
What is the meaning of "Elohim" and when was this name first revealed/mentioned in the bible?
- Elohim: ("the strong creator")
- First mentioned in Genesis 1:1 ("In the beginning, God 'Elohim, the strong/powerful creator' created the heavens and earth")
What is the meaning of "Elohim Kedoshim" and "El Shaddai"?
- Elohim Kedoshim: ("The Holy God")
- El Shaddai: ("God Almighty")
What is the meaning of "Adonai" and "Jehovah Jireh"?
- Adonai: ("Lord, Master")
- Jehovah Jireh: ("The Lord will Provide")
What is Tibarek's favorite book and who is Tibarek's favorite character in the bible?
- Favorite book: Psalms
- Favorite character: David
Sometimes, when a person has an encounter with God, God changes that person's name. Give two examples (one from the Old Testament and one from the New Testament) where God/Jesus changed the name of a person.
- Abram to Abraham
- Simon Peter to Peter
What is the meaning of "Yahweh" and when was this name first mentioned/revealed in the bible?
- Yahweh: ("I AM, the unchanging/self-existent one")
- First mentioned in Exodus 3 when God spoke to Moses in the burning bush
Where in the bible does God first introduce Himself as "El-Shaddai"?
In Genesis 17 when God made a covenant with Abraham that He will make him a great nation.
The word "Jireh" comes from the Hebrew word meaning __________
"to see"
What is something that Feven said she really loves? (could be person/people, place or item)
- Her family
In the bible times, what do names refer to?
A person's destiny or character
How does God (Elohim) show His power?
By the way that he creates (creating everything from nothing).
Name some responses to God's holiness that we learned about in this class.
- Unworthiness/trembling/awareness of sin (Isaiah 6:5)
- Worship (Psalm 96:9)
- Imitation (Leviticus 19:2)
What is the meaning of "atonement"? How has God provided atonement?
- Atonement = reparation for a wrong or injury
- God provided atonement for our sins by sending His son Jesus Christ to come and suffer and die for our sins (Leviticus 7:11, Romans 6:23, 1 John 2:2)
What are Feven's two favorite subjects?
History and Theology
Name the bible verse that includes "How majestic is Your Name"
Psalm 8:9
In ancient times, when a __a__ (person who copied scripture carefully by hand) would write God's name with a special pen. When the scribe would get to the name of God, he would leave a blank space and later go back and and write the name of God with a special name saying "_____b_____". If he made a mistake while writing God's name, he would ___c_____
a. Scribe
b. "I am writing the name of God for the holiness of His name
c. Destroy the whole papyrus or vellum.
In this class, we learned how Elohim Kedoshim, the Holy God, commands us to be holy. Name one of the bible verses where God commands "be holy for I am holy"
- Leviticus 11:44/45
- Leviticus 19:2
- Leviticus 20:26
- 1 Peter 1:16
Name the story and bible verse where "Jehovah Jireh" was mentioned in the bible.
- Genesis 22 when God provides a ram for Abraham to sacrifice in the place of his son Isaac.
Name all of the teachers for Redeemed Class
- Edel, Tibarek, Eyerus, Feven, Peter, Ayu, Henock
In bible times, names carry meanings (told something about the person). Define the meaning of the following names:
- Eve
- Moses
- Abram or Abraham
- Peter
- Eve: ("mother of all living things")
- Moses: ("to draw out of")
- Abram: ("exalted father") or Abraham: ("father of a multitude of nations")
- Peter: ("rock")
One of the ways to prove God's existence is through creation ["For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse" (Romans 1:20). Name other notions that we learned in class that prove God's existence.
- Morality
- Purpose
- Perfect creation/design means there is a perfect creator/designer (painting has a painter, building has a builder...)... (teleological argument)
- Everything that has a beginning has a cause (cosmological argument)
Name three examples of shared and three examples of unshared attributes of God that we learned in this class:
Shared:
Holiness, love, goodness, mercy, truth, justice, mercy
Unshared:
Omniscience, omnipresence, omnipotence, immutability, eternality, self-existence
When learning about the name of God "Adonai/Lord, Master", we used an analogy that God is the ______ of our lives and we are like _______
Name a bible verse that supports this notion.
- God is the Potter of our lives and we are like clay.
- Bible verses: Romans 9:20-21 and Isaiah 45:9
When is Jerry's second-birthday (born again)? What does it mean to be born again? Explain with bible verse
- Second birthday: January 7, 2019
- Born again: to be born (not from flesh) but from water and spirit: John 3