Bible Test #1

Revelation

God making Himself known to humanity.

Five sources of divine revelation

Creation, conscience, reason, history, and Scripture.

Foundational source of revelation

Scripture

Aristotle's Unmoved Mover

the first thing that caused everything else but was not itself caused.

Lewis' Trilemma

God is either a liar, lunatic or, the lord

Pascal's Wager

If God is real and you believe, then eternal life, and if you don't, eternal punishment

Universal Moral Law

The basic, innate human understanding of right and wrong.

Apostles' Creed

The earliest Christian statement of faith consisting of 12 key points.

Divine inspiration of Scripture

The belief that God guided and inspired human authors to write biblical texts.

Bart Ehrman's biblical critique

The Bible may be unreliable because there are many different manuscript versions.

Two main Hebrew Bible manuscript traditions

Masoretic Text and Dead Sea Scrolls.

Dead Sea Scrolls

The Dead Sea Scrolls are 2,000-year-old manuscripts that closely match modern Hebrew Scriptures like Isaiah.

Key early New Testament manuscripts (SVA)

Codex Sinaiticus, Codex Vaticanus, and Codex Alexandrinus.

Textual variants in NT manuscripts

spelling and word order

Pentateuch

The first 5 books of the bible

Books of the Pentateuch (G-E-L-N-D)

Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy.

Genesis

the first book of the bible

Enuma Elish

The ancient Babylonian creation myth featuring the god Marduk, contrasted with Genesis by its polytheism and conflict.

Pattern of the 7 Days of Creation

Light → Sky → Land → Lights → Birds/Fish → Animals/People → Rest

Polemic

A strong written or spoken argument opposing another belief.

Apologetic

a formal defense

Ish and Ishah

Hebrew terms for Husband and wife

Three attributes of God attacked by the serpent in Genesis

God's goodness, truth, and authority.

Sign of God's covenant with Noah

A rainbow, representing God's promise never to destroy the Earth by flood again.

Noah's sons (S-H-J)

Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

Tower of Babel

Humans attempted to build a tower to heaven, leading God to confuse their language and scatter them.

Three promises of the Abrahamic Covenant

1. Land\n2. Descendants\n3. Blessing to all nations

Sign of the Abrahamic Covenant

Circumcision.

Melchizedek

King of Salem and priest of God Most High who blessed Abraham.

Ishmael

Son of Abraham and Hagar, ancestor of the arab people

Esau

Isaac's older son who sold his birthright to his twin brother Jacob for a bowl of stew.

Jacob (Israel)

Isaac’s son who became Israel and had 12 sons.

Genesis narrative arc

Created, Fell, Flooded, Babel, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Israel.