Flashcards ORU Christian Life 1 Voth

Parts of Genesis Story

1. The setting, major characters (God and his creation), explain the situation (Genesis 1-2)

2. Some type of tension or crisis in the situation (Genesis 3-11)

3. characters struggle to resolve tension or crisis (a large part of the story) (Genesis 12- revelation 18)

4. climax or critical point (Gospels)

5. conclusion, resolution (Revelation 19-22)

Order of creation

1. Light

2. Sky and sea

3. ground and water

4. sun, moon and stars

5. birds and fish

6. animals and people

Adam and Eve

First man and woman

Sinful responses

1. Adam and eve rebel against God's boundaries for the garden and they get kicked out

2. outside the garden a man kills his brother, Cain kills Abel and cain is driven away from God

3. Human society embraces wickedness and they get flooded

4. people build a tower to make a name for themselves response and God changes their languages

Bible story headings

Creation and crisis: Genesis 1-11

Covenant: Genesis 12-50

Calling out: Exodus 1-15

Commandments: Exodus 16-40, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy

Conquest and canaanization: Joshua, Judges

Creation of the kingdom: Ruth, 1-2 Samuel, 1 Kings 1-11, 1 Chronicles; 2 Chronicles 1-9

Communion and Common Sense: Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs

Crumbling of the kingdom: 1 kings 12- 2 kings 25, 2 Chronicles 10-36, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Jonah, Micah, Habakkuk, Zephaniah

Captivity and coming home: Daniel, Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi

Christ

Church

Consummation .

Aspects of Hope

1. God announces judgment on the serpent giving Adam and Eve hope

2. The birth of the son Seth and Enosh began calling on the name of the Lord even when there was evil like Cain's murder of Abel

3. Not everyone was destroyed in the flood

covenant

Marriage

Legal binding agreement

Covenant with Abraham and his descendants

Genesis 12-17 goes through the OT and the NT

spiritual formation

the process of being conformed to the image of Christ for the sake of others

Abram means, Abraham means

"exalted father"

"father of multitudes"

Abraham covenant

promises:

A promise of land

Promise of many descendants

Promise of blessing (through Abraham to the entire world and on him)

Promise of blessings and curses on others, depending on how they relate to Abraham

Rituals:

Cuts animals in half

Abraham falls into a deep sleep

Smoking pot with a blazing fire representing god himself passes through the half animals

Significant in the near east for a serious covenant

Only god passes through the animals not Abraham in this covenant

circumcision- like a wedding ring

99 years old he establishes the covenant

Pentateuch

The first five books of the Bible

abrahamic covenant location

gen 12-17

mosaic covenant location

exod, Lev, Num, Deut

Genisis 17:8

exodus 3:12

"i will be their God"

" i will be with you"

covenant continues to Isaac then Jacob (Israel), then Jacob's Twelve Sons

covenant reaffirmed: land, blessing, children

Isaac has two sons: Esau and Jacob

major characters of exodus

God, moses, pharaoh

Pharaoh's plans

1. Work them to death

2. Order the midwives to kill all newborns Israelite boys at birth

3. Throw all Israelite boys in the river

first series plagues

blood, frogs, gnats

serpent shows up when

in the garden

the plagues are a sign of the snake

second series of plagues

flies, livestock, boils

third series pf plagues

hail, locusts, darkness

climax plague

the death of firstborn, angel of death, Passover

Ten commandments

1. the lord alone should be worshiped; not other God's

2. Don't make or worship idols

3. don't misuse the name of the Lord

4. Keep the sabbath day holy

5. honor your parents

6. don't murder

7. don't commit adultery

8. don't steal

9. don't give false testimonies

10. don't covet other people's stuff

i will be your God, you will be my people, I will dwell in your midst

three part formula

leviticus

book explaining rituals and sacrifices

numbers

wandering in wilderness

Deuteronomy

" the second law"

reiterate levitical law

also has the "Hittite suzerainty treaty"

contract between God and Israel

God of

abraham, Issac and Jacob

joshua

crossing Jordan river

Abraham promises fulfilled

walls of jericho destroyed

rahab and achan

Rahab- prostitute Canaanite becomes good

Achan- Israelite becomes bad

Judges

worship Baal

"judges" deliver them from oppression

moral collapse of Israelites

exodus

10 commandments

plagues

moses

burning bush and mountain ablaze

mosaic covenant at mount sinai

construct tabernacle

dynamics of spiritual formation

confrontation, consecration

Jacob's name change

Israel