BIBLE BASICS
This term means "Beginning" and is the name of the first book of the Old Testament.
What is Genesis?
This type of agreement between God and Man involves mutual commitment and guarantees.
What is a Covenant?
These four traditional ways to understand and interpret scripture include Literal, Allegorical, Moral, and Anagogical.
What are the Four Senses of Scripture?
These three roles of Adam in Eden were Priest, Prophet, and this royal position.
What is King?
To be this of God is the meaning of being created in His image and likeness.
What is a "son" or "daughter"/ "child of God"?
These are the first 5 books of the Bible, traditionally believed to be written by Moses.
What is the Pentateuch?
This person represents a group or family to make a covenant with others or with God.
What is a Mediator?
This sense of scripture considers the straightforward meaning, historical and cultural context of the text.
What is the Literal Sense?
s this role, Adam was called to "serve and guard" the Garden of Eden.
What is Priest?
This describes humanity in perfect union with God before the fall.
What is Original Man?
This is the name given to the Seven Days in which God created the universe in the Book of Genesis.
What is Creation Week?
These are often holy sites where God makes major covenants, from Adam to Jesus Christ.
What are Mountains?
This sense reveals hidden truths or connections to Jesus Christ and the Church through symbolism or metaphor.
What is the Allegorical Sense?
In this role, Adam named all the animals and spoke on behalf of God.
What is Prophet?
This building is where God dwells, and where worship and sacrifice are offered to Him.
What is a Temple?
: This Greek word means "Proclamation" and refers to the announcement of salvation through Jesus Christ.
What is Kerygma?
This was God's original covenant with the first humans, meant for eternal life and perfect obedience.
What is the Adamic Covenant?
This sense interprets the ethical lessons derived from the text, guiding the reader's behavior and life.
What is the Moral Sense?
This is the lie of the serpent in the garden: That Adam and Eve are NOT made in this:
What is The Image and Likeness of God?
God blessed Adam and Eve with this command, found in Genesis 1:28.
What is "Be fruitful and multiply"?
This term refers to the "First Good News" or "Gospel" in Genesis, announcing the coming of the Messiah.
What is the Protoevangelium?
This Hebrew phrase meaning "empty and shapeless" describes the earth before God's creative work.
What is "Tohu Wabohu"?
This sense provides spiritual interpretation of what will happen in heaven and at the end of time.
What is the Anagogical Sense?
As the universal husband to all humanity, Adam held this patriarchal title.
What is Bridegroom?
According to Genesis, the whole of creation was made in 7 days which is THIS TYPE of NUMBER
What is a "COVENANT number"?