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Know St. Jerome’s quote.
Ignorance of the scriptures is ignorance of Christ.
God guided and shaped the biblical author’s message.
Biblical inspiration
Written word of God (Bible).
Sacred Scripture
Oral word of God, or all the truths revealed by God that have been handed down by word of mouth.
Sacred Tradition
Living, teaching office of the Church whose task is to give authentic interpretation of the word of God.
Magisterium
Beginning of the history of God’s salvation of mankind.
Old Testament
Tells the story of God’s saving actions with His people as recounted in the Old Testament, New Testament, and Church History.
Salvation History
Events or people from the Old Testament that prefigure events or people in the New Testament.
Type
Sacred agreement where both sides accept an obligation from each other.
Covenant
3 original languages used in Bible
Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek
What is the literal sense of scripture
What the Sacred Writer intended to convey to their audience
What is the Allegorical sense of scripture?
Story or events symbolically used to explain a fundamental truth.
What is the Moral Sense of scripture?
Scripture instructs us how to act and teaches us what is right and wrong.
What is the Anagogical Sense of Scripture?
Scripture points us towards our eternal home.
Know how to draw a basic drawing of the Hebrew Cosmos.
What does it mean to be in the image and likeness of God - Genesis 1?
Be God’s representatives on Earth.
Why did the biblical author make a connection between pagan statues and the garden of Eden stories? (Gen. 2-3)
No, don’t worship statues, replace them with us.
Know how to interpret Genesis 3:15.
God says the serpent’s offspring is going to battle with the woman’s offspring.
Which offspring are the people in Genesis 4, and who is the 7th offspring of this line?
Offspring of serpent - 7th offspring is Lamech
Which offspring are the people in Genesis 5, and who is the 7th offspring of this line?
Offspring of woman - 7th offspring is Enoch
Who are the sons of God in Genesis 6:1-4 and who are their children.
Sons of God are sons of a main god in a pantheon, their children are the nephilim or giants.
What is the flood a type of and what does it symbolize?
Baptism and new creation
In Genesis 9 Ham looks upon his father’s nakedness, which is him sleeping with his mother. Who is the child from this sinful union that Noah curses?
Canaan
What is the sin of the people at the tower of babel? (Genesis 11)
Pride
What does God do in the first 3 days, and during the second 3 days of creation.
First 3 days He orders chaos into 3 different realms. Second 3 days He populates the realms with their rulers.
Using Genesis 11 and Deuteronomy 32 what happens to humanity’s relationship with God, and who takes the place of guiding humanity?
Mortal sin is committed breaking humanity’s relationship with God. Sons of God (angels) guide humanity.
What doctrinal document is this quote from, “New Testament is hidden in the Old, and the Old is made manifest in the New.”
Dei Verbum
God making himself known to humanity.
Divine Revelation
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