ff 4th qtr - part 4 Flashcards
The —— are known as the Word of God.
Sacred Scriptures
● Consists of patterns and parallelism. We can acquire a more profound understanding of events by recognizing their significance in Christ.
ALLEGORICAL SENSE
● Drawing meaning from the text.
● God invites us to read between the lines in the texts of the Bible.
EXEGESIS
● It is the meaning the human author of the text directly intended to convey to his audience.
● What you see is what you get.
● Another name for the literal sense is
the ‘obvious sense.’
LITERAL SENSE
—– means happiness or laughter, or miracle child.
Isaac
● The events reported in Scripture ought to lead us to act justly. As St. Paul says they were written “for our instruction.”
MORAL SENSE
- Our humility to accept our shortcomings and mistakes and the will to change our wrongdoings makes us righteous before the eyes of God.
Moral Instruction
Popularly defined as liberation from
sin and its consequences.
SALVATION
● Concerned with the interpretation of the relationship of the Sacred Scriptures to the eternal glory that awaits us— the goal of our journey in life towards the Kingdom of God.
ANAGOGICAL SENSE
● - from the soil
Adamous
● - mother of all living
Eve
● Shows that our sins also affects nature as a whole
NOAH’S ARC
● Shows that other nations can hurt other nations
● People built a tower so high in order to reach God themselves.
THE TOWER OF BABEL
● First record of murder in the Bible
● Sin doesn’t choose who it hurts
(friends, family, etc.)
CAIN AND ABEL
- an offer of friendship and mutual commitment.
Covenant
A contract freely entered into by two parties which is binding, and each is expected to be faithful and assume responsibilities and enjoy privileges.
COVENANT
- Way of performing a blood ritual to make alliances. The reason why God asked the Hebrews to perform circumcision is so that they will receive the blessing of Abraham
Circumcision
– means “the only person who fought with God and survived.”
Israel
T OR F
Jacob was blessed with 14 children that later became the tribe leaders of the kingdom of Israel.
Jacob was blessed with 12 children that later became the tribe leaders of the kingdom of Israel.
FALSE
The word — literally means “heel clinger”
Jacob
In order to show that God is the God of the universe, He brought —–.
● Signs and wonders of God’s power over Pharaoh and the Egyptians
plagues
The—– became
their code of conduct to live their
lives morally as God’s chosen people
Ten Commandments
shows that God is their King. There are leaders who help in delivering the citizens’ requests to God.
Theocracy
–Leaders appointed by God to lead the Israelites to defeat their enemies. Military leaders commissioned by God to act as deliverers, and so guarantee the survival of Israel in times of invasion
or natural crisis.
Judges
