Genesis

Question 1

How is Abram a new creation?

Answer 1

• Abraham is a new creation in response to the turmoil of the first 11 chapters of Gen.
• bless, be fruitful, multiple used in creation covenant and Abramhamic covenant

Question 2

Kingdom through Covenant

Answer 2

metanarrative of scripture - we are created with an identity for a mission

Question 3

What book and chapter is the covenant making ceremony for Abram?

Answer 3

Gen. 15

Question 4

When is the renewal of the Abram covenant

Answer 4

Gen 17

Question 5

Who does Yahweh reveal himself to Abram as?

Answer 5

El Shaddai

Question 6

What is the meaning of walk before me?

Answer 6

? lecture 2 of abram?

Question 7

What is the meaning of the sign of circumcision?

Answer 7

? lecture 2 of abram?

Question 8

Why the Covenant with Abraham?

Answer 8

1) It is the Basis for all of God’s plans and purposes for

2) Covenants reveal the character of Yahweh most clearly

Question 9

What does Mary’s Magnificant describe?

Answer 9

The birth of her son as God “remembering mercy”

Question 10

What is a Covenant?

Answer 10

The word is used in Scripture for a wide diversity of oath-bound commitments in various relationships.

1. ) It is used to refer to international treaties (Josh 9:6)
2. ) Clan/tribal alliances (Gen. 14:13) 3.) Personal agreements (Gen. 31:44)
3. ) National legal agreements (Jer 34:8-10)
4. ) Loyalty agreements (1 Sam 20:14-17) including marriage (Mal. 2:14; cf. Prov. 2:17).

Question 11

Form of a contract

Answer 11

1. Date
2. Parties
3. Transaction
4. Investiture
5. Guarantees
6. Scribe
7. List of Witnesses

Question 12

Form of a covenant

Answer 12

1. Speaker introduced
2. History of relationship
3. General command
4. Detailed stipulations
5. Document statement
6. Witnesses
7. Blessings and curses

Question 13

6 covenants of scripture

Answer 13

1) The covenant with creation
2) The covenant with Noah
3) The covenant with Abraham
4) The covenant at Sinai
5) The covenant with David
6) The New Covenant

Question 14

Covenant with Noah

Answer 14

Phase 1: precreation. Just as God’s Spirit hovered over the abyss (1:2), God sends a wind over the engulfing waters to renew the earth

Phase 2: second day. Just as God initially divided the waters (1:6-7), God regathers the waters, reestablishing the boundaries between sky and earth

Phase 3: third day. Just as God separated the dry, arable ground from the water to sustain vegetation, so again, the dry ground emerges in successive stages

Phase 4: fifth day. The sky once again houses the winged creatures, as God first proclaimed it so to be

Phase 5: sixth day. The living creatures of sky and land are classed out from the ark, as in their first creative calling from the voice of God

Phase 6. The reappearance of the nuclear family, all of whom bear God’s image, as the heads and sole representatives of the human race functions as a reprise of the creation of ‘adam, male and female in God’s image

Phase 7. The heavenly King graciously grants his blessing on humanity, feeds them with the fruit of the restored earth, and, renewing the cultural mandate, restores then as lords over the creation

Question 15

Who is Noah a new version of?

Answer 15

Adam

Question 16

Comparison between noah and creation covenants

Answer 16

• Both have be fruitful
• Fear of you vs rule over fish birds animals
• Animals given for food vs plants given for food
• Don’t eat meat with blood to noah, no stipulation given for creation cov.
• Your blood … his brothers life vs gen 4:8-24
• In the image of God vs in God’s own image

Question 17

Overview of Genesis 1-2

Answer 17

Creation of the Kosmos with man as its pinnacle

Question 18

How to view Genesis 1 and 2

Answer 18

not to seperate events but one that is general and 1 that is expanded on the pinnacle of creation found in the first

Question 19

Before the creation of man what type of command

Answer 19

Third person.

“Let there be X, and there was X.”

Question 20

What is different about the language used for the creation of man?

Answer 20

First person “Let us make …”

Question 21

5 views of image and likeness

Answer 21

(1) The terms “image” and “likeness” are distinct aspects of man’s nature (from Irenaeus, c. 180 AD onwards).
(2) The divine image refers to the mental and spiritual qualities that man shares with his creator.
(3) The image consists of a physical resemblance.
(4) The divine image makes man God’s representative on earth.
(5) The image is a capacity to relate to God.

Question 22

What is the traditional view on image and likeness?

Answer 22

The divine image refers to the mental and spiritual qualities that man shares with his creator

Question 23

What are the critiques of the traditional view?

Answer 23

get from lecture?

Question 24

Image and likeness in ANE

Answer 24

DONT THINK THIS IS RIGHT OR ENOUGH!

image of God as king - ruler over creation and according to the likeness of God - highlights mans role as supplicant or worshiper of God