Style of Writing
These are short stories that communicate layers of truth. Jesus often used them to teach His disciples.
What are parables?
What is another name for the Bible?
(Answers may vary)
A formal, sacred bond that is unbreakable
What is a covenant?
This is the meaning of the words of Scripture discovered by study of the text
What is the literal sense?
Who was the mediator of the first covenant?
Who is Adam?
The writings of the Bible foretold the consequences of the current course of action of the people of Israel.
What is prophetic writings?
These are the two parts the Bible is divided into
What is the New Testament and the Old Testament
This is an agreement between two or more people that can be broken if one party fails to fulfill its conditions?
What is a contract?
God promised him he would never destroy the world again by flood
Who is Noah
This is a story in a straightforward way, recounting some event or story of an important person in Israel’s history.
What is a narrative?
This is the number of books in the New Testament
What is 27 books
To show, warn of, or indicate a future event before it happens.
What is foreshadow?
This is a spiritual sense of scripture that helps us understand how some of the events of the Old Testament foreshadow Jesus Christ
This was the sign God gave us through Jesus?
What is the Eucharist?
This is the number of books in the Old Testament
What is 46 books
The human authors of scripture were guided or _________________________ by God through the Holy Spirit in their writing.
What is inspired?
This is a spiritual sense of scripture that teaches us how to act in a right way.
What is moral sense?
God promised him he would make his descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky, and that they would inherit the Promised Land.
Who is Abraham?
This style of writing communicates how to best love God and each other.
What is law?
The next set of books?
What are the books of History?
The person who God entered into a covenant with, who represents all of us.
Who is a mediator?
This spiritual sense of scripture helps us to relate what the events of Scripture has to do with our final destiny--Heaven
What is anagogical sense?
God promised this person He would protect His people and lead them to the promised land
Who is Moses?