Not Even English
It doesn't matter if it's factual, but it's true; a story that brings us into contact with divine realities.
What is mythos?
First person since the first parents to "walk with God" in Hebrew tradition. His cousin through Cain bares the same name, which is the name of a city, too.
Who is Enoch?
God planted Eden, making Him a ____________, just like he made our First Parents.
What is a gardener?
The First Sin, from which all others come, like the center in a coordinate plane
What is Original Sin?
The study and organization of your life according to faith, hope, and love
What is theology
Alternate name for God in Genesis 2 that forms the last part of Mr. Nevadomski's first name.
Who is Seth?
Israel's new favorite, after the first was lost
Who is Benjamin?
This lowest possible perfect number caps the creation narrative's inherent goodness
What is 6?
An acronym for the sections of the traditional Hebrew canon
What is the Tanakh?
Something so old (but not wet!) that it predates the First Covenant
What is antediluvian?
It was commanded by God, so OK, but our "Father in Faith" almost committed filicide.
Who is Abraham?
Not a feeling; the lifting of the heart and the mind to God
What is prayer?
The number of the covenant with Abraham
What is the Second Covenant?
The first five books of Moses, as originally written
What is the Torah?
First words of Genesis, in the OG.
What is bereshit?
He was mostly known for being hairy and shortsighted, if "manly."
Who is Esau?
After sleeping on a rock, Jacob set this rock up and poured oil on it, giving us an example of this Catholic concept of "stuff matters."
What is sacramentality?
Signifies change and transformation; something was one way before and no longer is
What is 40?
The formal academic name for why bad things happen to good people in the face of a loving God who is all-powerful
What is theodicy?
The Latin motto of Yale University and the first words God speaks in the Old Testament. An Italian "clown car" and something fancy.
What is fiat lux?
Both his parents laughed when the angel told his mother she was pregnant.
Who is Isaac?
He carried the wood up the mountain his dad was going to kill him on, making him a "type" of Christ in prefigurement.
Who is Isaac?
When applied to groups of people, it means a complete nation
What is 12?
God manifests mostly audible in Genesis, until his next era, which is DREAMY and FIRE.
What is theophany?
A Greek "know-it-all"
What is omniscience?
The dustiest man ever--like all of us.
Who is Adam?
Who is Noah?
The number of classical attributes of God, according to Aquinas
What is 3?
Last of the line of Cain
Who is Tubalcain?
Eve's job is to be this, which most translations render as "companion," but is really waaaaay more badass, as Adam can't even save himself from it.
What is ezer?
First born of the sons of Israel, tried to do his brother "well," and ended up failing...leading to trouble, but redemption
Who is Reuben?
Sometimes regarded by Biblical scholars as "the first scientist," since all he did was play with plants and name things.
Who is Adam?
What God creates from in the first Genesis narrative
What is nothing/ex nihilo?
An "unspeakable" four-letter word, but actually God.
What is the Tetragrammaton?
Hebrew for set apart. We say the English version at Mass three times.
What is qadosh?
Momma's boy who ends up with twelve boys himself, before being renamed. Brother wants to kill him for his cooking and blessing.
Who is Jacob?
Second-status wife solution to infertility; in todayspeak: a "side piece"
What is a concubine?
What is the Septuagint?
Formal theological term for a predecessor or kind that foreshadows a perfect version in the New Testament
What is a type/typology?