Creation 1
Symbolic images and accounts used to express great truths.
Figurative Language
Events that happened before any recorded history
Primeval History
Literary form of the Patriarchs
Folktale
One who wrestles/contends
Jacob
A vision of God to a human
Theophany
Two
Created LAST in the FIRST Creation story
Humanity
In trying to heal the relationship between humanity and God, God choses this group to do God's work.
The Lowly and Imperfect
Abraham
God gives this name to Moses, meaning this.
YHWH; "I am"
Man and women are created at the same time in THIS Creation story
The First
The first sin in which human beings disobeyed God and lost their original holiness.
Original Sin
A male elder or leader
Patriarch
Laughter
Isaac
The Angel of Death skips Hebrew houses with lamb's blood on doorposts.
Passover
The responsibility to honor and preserve all of creation which has been entrusted to our care.
Stewardship
In which De-Creation story does humanity repeat the sin of wanting to be like God.
A solemn agreement between humans and God in which mutual committments are recognized.
A Covenant
May he add another
Joseph
Moses
These are the 5 Consequences of Original Sin
1. Relationship between men and women will be filled with tension.
2. Childbirth will be painful
3. Humans will have to work hard at tilling the soil for their food.
4. The experience of death.
5. Harmony between people, people and nature, and people and God has been wounded.
These are the 4 Truths of Original Justice
1. There would be no suffering or death.
2. Man would be at peace with himself.
3. There would be harmony between men and women.
4. Work was not a burden, it was instead a collaboration.
Name the one thing God requires of Abraham, and the three things God promises to Abraham as part of their covenant.
God requires FAITH of Abraham.
God will give
1. Land
2. Descendents "more numerous than the stars of the sky"
3. Make of Abraham a "blessed nation"
Name the 3 steps of the Covenant Pattern
1. God promises to be faithful to His people.
2. People promise to be faithful to God
3. God always keeps His promise, people dont.
Name the 10 plagues of Egypt
Water to blood, frogs, lice, flies, pestilence, boils, hail, locusts, darkness, death of the firstborn.