ABRAHAMIC Practic ID's Flashcards
Abram/Abraham
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Meaning: Abraham almost sacrificed his son, Isaac. But god stopped him (sacrificed lamb instead), this showed Abraham’s faithful and loyal to God
Importance: Faithfulness between God and Abraham is a promise which created the first covenant from mutuality.
Anthropomorphism
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Meaning: Abraham talked to Lord in the shape of a bush, then his name got changed.
Importance: Gaining characteristics from a non-human being.
10 Plagues
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Meaning: Phorah killed all newly born first sons because of the increase of population and how prosperous Jews were.
Importance: God brought plagues to punish Pharaoh because she wouldn’t stop
Book of Exodus
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Book of Exodus
Meaning: the Tanak’s narrative that focuses on Moses who led the descendants of Abraham out of bondage in Egypt
Importance: Adds along to the notion that when you obey god, the nation flourishes, if you are not loyal, catastrophe strikes.
Mt. Sinai
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Mt. Sinai
Meaning: Moses frees the enslaved people and then takes them to Mount. Sinai. On Mount. Sinai, people followed the Laws and Rules to connect to God.
Importance: Mt Sinai laws or rules is the 10 commandments, and what specifically they have to do to become a muslim.
Love thy Neighbor
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Love thy Neighbor
Meaning: Overall message Jesus wanted to spread: Love thy neighbour.
Importance: His stories and parables he was telling people was meant to reach the importance of “Love thy neighbor”
Diaspora
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Diaspora
Meaning: The availability of synagogues since you can practice Judaism anywhere with Torah, 10 Miniyan, and a Rabbi.
Importance: After The Temple got destroyed, there was a scattering of Jews.
Temple of Solomon
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Temple of Solomon
Meaning: The Temple of Solomon was the only temple for worshipping, it got destroyed, rebuilt, and destroyed again. only the Western Wall stands.
Importance: Allowed the idea of Diaspora make it beneficial to practice Judaism more.
Pentateuch
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Pentateuch
Meaning: The 5 books which Jews call the: Torah Genesis,
Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy
Importance: The most important laws out of the whole old testament.
Genesis
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Genesis
Meaning: The creation and start of a new world
Importance: First Hebrew bible written by Moses. It explains the creation of the world and it’s beginning.
Exodus
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Exodus
Meaning: Second book of the bible and it narrates how Moses frees Iresalian slaves in Egypt.
Importance: Brought them to convert them to Islam. It includes the 10 Commandments
Orthodox
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Orthodox
Meaning: Most strict, speaks Hebrew, separation of women and men, strictly adheres to the commandments of Torah b/c Holy books in Judaism contain many aspects of daily life given by God
Importance: Abandonment of the keeping of the instructions that reflect obedience to God, it distinguishes Jews as people.
Secular
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Secular
Meaning: Identifies with the culture but does not believe in the teachings, little to no attention to religious aspects.
Importance: It is not a part of the levels of devotion.
Conservative
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Conservative
Meaning: Middle ground between Orthodox and Reform
Importance: In the level of devotion, they believe in certain teaching and pays attention to religious aspects
Reconstrucionist
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Reconstrucionist
Meaning: It is a community, Judaism is not a definition of race.
Importance: Does not accept the bible but believes in god, it is a civilization rather than a religon.
Messiah
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Messiah
Meaning: A leader or savior of a group of people.
Importance: Christians believe Jesus was the messiah, but Jews do not.
Apostles/Disciples
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Apostles/Disciples
Meaning: Paul, Peter, Matthew, John, etc are founders that are friends with Jesus, recorded in the new testament.
Importance: Important in the New Testament, the 12 Disciples
Parables
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Parables
Meaning: When Jesus was spreading parables, it was to tell a story and it’s moral.
Importance: A spiritual lesson.
Testament
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Testament
Meaning: The agreements between god and someone, like a Covenant.
Importance: Tests faithfulness and obedience, mutuality.
Puritans/Pilgrims
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Puritans/Pilgrims
Meaning: Thinks Church is operating horribly, Focused on purifying church since it is so messed up
Importance: Fixing the parts of churches that needs to be fixed.
Quakers
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Quakers
Meaning: No hierarchy within church no one leads the service/all worship together
Importance: Everyone is on the same level, equity
Congregationalists
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Congregationalists
Meaning: focuses on the experience of the people (each church does it’s own thing)
Importance: Protestant branch that organizes their own plans
