TRUE OR FALSE
PERSONS OF THE DRAMA
TOOLS OF THE HISTORICAL TRADE
CREATION, FALL, REDEMPTION
BIG CONCEPTS
100

A civilization is a group of people that shares a land area and a common language.

What is False?

A nation is a group of people that shares a land area and a common language.

100

After spilling blood, this character "went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod." (Gen. 4:16)

Who is Cain?

100

A resource that was produced by the people being studied or during that period.

What is a primary source?
100
These are the three central truths of the Christian worldview.

What is...
1.) Creation (God made the world and everything in it)

2.) Fall (This world has fallen into a sad and broken condition because of human sin)

3.) Redemption (God is working to redeem this world to Himself)


100

This can be defined as a system of basic values, beliefs, and behaviors that are directed in worship toward God and lived out in community.

What is religion?

200

A Bible commentary on the Book of Genesis is an example of a primary source.

What is False?

A primary source is usually produced by people involved in the events being studied.

200

With a name meaning 'appointed,' this character's descendants were known to be a people to "call upon the name of the Lord." (Gen. 4:26)

Who is Seth?

200

There are two basic kinds of resources available to historians.

What are primary and secondary sources?

200
This refers to the idea that humans love themselves supremely, and that they cannot love God or their fellow humans as they should.

What are twisted affections?

200

This idea refers to those human qualities that reflect part of God's personality.

What is to be made in image of God?

300

The image of God is unique to humans.

What is True?

The image of God is a quality possessed by all humans that reflects part of God's own personality.

300

This descendant of Adam is considered one of the 'pre-Flood Patriarchs,' but he is unique for never having died. "He was not; for God took him." (Gen. 5:24)

Who is Enoch?

300

This process involves "weaving information together into a narrative."

What is (historical) synthesis?

300

The seed of [this] refers primarily to Christ, but also to those who are loyal to God through salvation.

What is the seed of the woman?

300

It can be defined as an inquiry into the past and why it happened.

What is the study of history?

400

The climax of God's creative work was His great masterpiece: the earth.

What is False?

God's creative masterpiece was humanity, made in His image.

400

In Genesis 10, the descendants of Shem, Ham, and Japheth - and the nations that arose from them - are known as this.

What is the Table of Nations?

400

This kind of primary source comes with the danger of being forgotten or distorted during transmission.

What is oral tradition?

400
This individual in Genesis remained faithful to God, even when no one else was.

Who was Noah?

400

This is what the study of history should motivate us to do.

What is to set our hope on God?

500

The human race has only been able to engage in agricultural pursuits since the last two thousand years.

What is False?

The Bible presents the human race as intelligent, able to engage in agricultural pursuits from its earliest times. 

500

Noah placed a curse on Canaan, the son of this son of Noah.

Who is Ham?

500

This process involves - in part - comparing records in order to see where they agree and disagree.

What is the evaluation of historical sources?

500
This is the goal of human history.

What is redemption in Christ?

500

Name one of the two definitions of history.

What is...

A.) The inquiry into what has happened in the past, and why it has happened

...or...

B.) The study of the record of the past acts of God and humanity on earth from its creation to the present, based on the best surviving evidence

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