Humans and Their Role in the Cosmos
Genesis says humans are meant to do this over creation.
What is rule / have dominion?
In Genesis 1 the number seven symbolizes this concept.
What is completion / fullness?
Three places where Heaven & Earth are united in scripture.
What are the garden, the temple / tabernacle, Jacob's ladder? (Others?)
The Hebrew verb raqa’, related to raqia’, means this action (sometimes performed on metal).
What is to hammer or flatten out?
Paul was "caught up" to this in 2 Corinthians 12:2.
What is the third heaven?
In the New Testament this person is called the perfect image of God.
Jesus
Genesis 1:1 contains this many words in Hebrew.
What is seven?
A form of water in scripture that represents life (not chaos).
What is a river / well / spring (others)?
The meaning of the Hebrew word ’erets?
What is “earth” or the land beneath the sky where humans live, not a globe floating in space?
The class emphasizes that reading the Bible requires understanding this ancient factor shaping its worldview.
What is cultural context?
Humans were created as this pair representing God’s image.
What is male and female?
Israel practiced this weekly ritual reflecting God’s rest in creation.
What is the Sabbath?
According to Revelation 21, the new creation contains no temple because this reality replaces it.
What is God’s direct presence dwelling with humanity?
This Hebrew word for “heavens” or “skies” refers to God’s realm and the space above the land.
What is shamayim?
This ancient civilization believed creation began with the god Atum emerging from chaotic waters.
What is Egyptian?
Genesis says humans are created in this.
What is the image of God?
The Jubilee year extended the Sabbath concept to this area.
What is the land / economy?
In Genesis 1, God resting on the seventh day reflects an ancient concept of a deity doing this after establishing order in creation.
What is taking up residence in a temple?
The meaning of the Hebrew word tehom?
What is the “deep abyss” or the dark chaotic waters present before God organizes creation.
Ancient Near Eastern creation stories generally describe organizing chaos rather than creating the universe out of this.
What is nothing?
The Hebrew word for idol.
What is Tselem?
This Hebrew word means “to stop working” and is used for God’s rest.
What is shabbat?
Where Jesus is uniting all things in Heaven & Earth.
What is in himself?
The Hebrew word that describes the waters in Genesis 1:2 when the Spirit of God was hovering over them as opposed to "tehom" when darkness was over them.
What is mayim?
In ancient cosmology the universe was often seen as having these stacked levels.
What is 3-tiers (Heaven, Earth, and Under the Earth)?