final semester 1 exam Flashcards
where did israelites religion began with
abraham a wondering herdsman around 1850 BC in iraq
salvation history
patterns of specific salvific events in human history that reveal gods presence and saving actions, all of hisotry is salvation history, the sotry of gods actions and the poeples responses over many years
god made what with abraham
agrrement, god promised to make abrahamns descendents a blessing to the world and he would give the land of canaan now palestine
god said what about abrahams descendents
they would reveal god to the world, crhistians believe this was fulfilled by the coming of jesus crhist.
how did abrahmas descendants inherit this
through the coming of the matriarchs and patriarchs
patriarchs
isaac and jacob who are the founders of the jewish faith
matriarcs
their wives sarah rebekah and rachel
at the close of the book genesis abraham descendents are where
living in egypt as they escaped to survive the famine
the closing of the book of genesis leads to
the beginning of the book of exodus where the israelites are enslvaed by the egytians,
god came to who and why at beginnign of exodus
moses and revealed his name to be yaywhe meaning i am the one who is always present
teh exodus is
daring escape of the israelites with moses with the help of god out of slavery from the egyptians
on mount sinai what was made
covenant by god with moses and the poeple, the israelites and all the descendants to come were to honor the 10 commandments which god presented to moses, the reward was the isrealited being known as the poeple of god, and for god to be with them as long as they kept the covenant
how long did the israelites travel in the desert
40 years until tehy reached cannaan so that tehy learned to trust gods care for them
after moses died who led the poeple into canaan
joshua, wheer they ffought againt the people living in the region and in about 1000 bs israel was recognized as a nation
david was annointed
king of israel
what did god make with david
a promise, that davids line would endure forever
jerusalem became a
great and holy city
what ahppened after david dies and solomon was appointed king
solomon divided israel into 12 districts and appoointed an officer to each one, with israel in the north and judah in the south oppression and heavy taxes created hardship,
what did teh prophets do to get israel back to god
urged the poeple to honor the covenant yet they refused so god was angry adn the assyrians and babylonians took israel into exile
during the exile other prohphets
said god was the one and only god
after how long were the exiled lifted
after 50 years teh exiles were lifted and the people followed the law written by their ancestros about god and rebuilt jerualme
in the Old Testament god shows salvation thru
through moses through abraham through solomon and david and through the covenants and prominses made with people
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step 1
in the creattion Adam and Eve are cerated to enjoy the delightful garden and be intimate companions for each toehr
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they are privelaged to talk to the creator
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soon they are aught up with disobedience and guilt
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they ate the forbidden fruit from teh tree of knowledge of good and evil
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as a result fro eating from the tree they have knoweldege they are naked and try to coveer themselved up
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to avoid god who is appproachign they hdie
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god vcalls adma and his excuse for hiding nakedness yeat earlier adam was naked and not ashamaed
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god asked adam if he has eaten from the tree yet adam unable to bear punishment shifts the blame to eve
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eve also unable to own up blames the serpent for tricking her
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sin has done its wokr and has ruined the relationships between god themselves and ceration
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god tells tehm the consqueneces of tehir sin, mans work will not give him perfect pleasure but will be difficult and weary to him, woman will be subject to ehr husband and will bear pain while giving birth