Unit 1 Divine Revaltion And History Of The Early World Flashcards
Adam
Man god created
“From red dirt”
Eden
Garden where god put Adam and Eve
Understood by ancient readers to be the original temple
Recreated in the flooding
Eve
Woman created by Adams rib
“Mother of all living”
Mirrored Adams creater
Cain
Tiller of the ground
Brought fruit of he ground
Offering rejected by god
Killed able
Abel
Brother of Cain
Brought fattest meat to god
Offering accepted by god
Killed by Cain
Lamech
Descendent of Cain
First man to have two wives
Treats women as objects
Seth
Part of the righteous line
Son of Adam and Eve
Work for gods glory
Noah
Instructed to build an ark
Built an alter to sacrifice to God
God promises to NOAH to never floor again
Shem
Descendent of Noah’s sons
Decendents of Shem became Israelites
Respected NOAH by covering him with a blanket
Ham
Sees his father naked Tells brothers Disrespects NOAH Want to make a name for themselves Build tower to reach god without obeying him God confuses language
Canaan
Hams son
Cursed for being hand son
Father of Canaanites
Started line of enemies of Israel
Divine revalation
Communication with god through super natural or natural with people on earth
Private revalation
Not divine revalation
Cod continues to appear to faithful
Helps is to live more fully
They so not contradict what Jesus tought
Natural revelation
Knowing that god exists through use of reason ( observing his creation)
Supernatural revalation
Picks up where natural revalation leaves off
God revealing not only that he exists but specific things from his personhood
Culmination
Climax or highlight
Christ
Jesus works
Salvation history
Gods plan for humanities salvation from genus is to the birth of Jesus
Covenant
A promise
#7
I seven myself
Divine filiation
To be a child of god