Act I
Transcendent: an attribute of God that describes him as being above and outside of His creation. (Gen. 1)
Immanent: An attribute of God that describes Him as being both within and among His creation. (Gen. 2)
What are two aspects of God's nature that he reveals to us in Genesis 1 and 2?
1.) An act of unbelief
2.) A desire for autonomy
3.) An act of irresponsibility
4.) An act of rebellion
What was the nature of sin?
An agreement between two parties that involves both rights and responsibilities.
What is a covenant?
John the Baptist
Who set the stage for the coming of the Messiah?
From the Old English word for "good news"; the message of Jesus' saving work and God's present Kingdom
What is the Gospel?
A storytelling technique in which an overview of a story is given before the story is laid out in specific detail
What is Recapitulation?
The serpent will crawl in humiliation and be regarded with fear and contempt.
Women would experience increased pain in childbirth, adding great pain to an event of great blessing
Men and women would experience frustration in their relationships.
Men's curse is on the ground. The earth will rebel against Adam, as he rebelled against God, and only through painful toil would he wring productivity out of the soil.
What are the consequences of sin?
The first Gospel or God's first promise of coming redemption through Jesus Christ
What is Protevangelium?
The Greek translation of the Hebrew Scriptures
What is the Septuagint?
The Hebrew word for "deity"; the generic name used in the Old Testament for the creator-God.
What is Elohim?
Satan in the garden. It was one of the wild creatures God created, which would be consistent with the curse about crawling on his belly.
Who was the serpent?
Their main jobs is to call people back into faithfulness to God's law and God's mission
What do prophets do?
Jesus's virgin birth
Bethlehem as the birthplace of the Messiah
Jesus' return from Egypt
Herod's killing of children
Jesus's home of Nazareth
What were examples of prophetic fulfillment?
Described as a bride, army, nation, body, family, team, temple, flock, and hospital.
What is the church?
A social movement advocating the genetic improvement of the human race through such practices as selective breeding, compulsory sterilization, forced abortions, and genocide.
What is Eugenics
Humans are good by nature
Society and its institutions are responsible for the evil we do
Mental health can be restored to those who can overcome psychological guilt
What are the three false assumptions that Secularists make about the self, mind, and mental process?
The spread of Greek culture (language arts, ideas, religion, government) throughout the conquered ancient world
What was Hellenization?
A first-century Jewish faction that lived a monastic and communal life in the desert, shared everything in common, practiced ritual cleansing, and produced the oldest known copies of the Old Testament (for instance, the Dead Sea Scrolls).
Who were the essenes?
The "filming" is still taking place; we are the actors on the set as the story resolves.
What place do we have in the metanarrative
A second-century heretical Christian movement that taught that the material world was created and maintained by a lesser divine being, that matter and the physical body are inherently evil, and that salvation can be obtained only through esoteric knowledge of divine reality and the self-denial of physical pleasures
What is Gnosticism?
The Orthodox Christian belief that Adam's first sin corrupted the nature of his descendants leading to humanity's present propensity toward committing sin.
The four-hundred year period between the completion of the Old Testament and the writing of the New Testament
What was the Intertestamental Period?
A first-century Jewish faction that practiced a legalistic interpretation of the Torah, accepted the Talmud as authoritative, believed in the concept of an afterlife, and opposed the Roman occupation of Palestine.
Who were the Pharisees?
What is the focal point of the new creation?