unit 2 Bible: covenants

Question 1

How does sin affect people’s relationship with God?

Answer 1

We can’t have a perfect relationship with God.

Question 2

How can we have a right relationship with God?

Answer 2

We ask God to forgive us.

Question 3

How does sin affect our relationship with other people?

Answer 3

We can’t have a good relationship with another person because sin entered into the world.

Question 4

What promise did God make in Genesis 3:15?

Answer 4

God would put hatred between Satan and people. Jesus will come and destroy Satan.

Question 5

What is a Biblical covenant?

Answer 5

A promise between God and man.

Question 6

What did Noah do when he and his family came out of the ark?

Answer 6

He built and altar.

Question 7

What covenant did God make with Noah?

Answer 7

He would never destroy the earth with a flood.

Question 8

Why is the rainbow such a fitting symbol of God’s promise to Noah?

Answer 8

Because a rainbow comes out after a rainfall.

Question 9

Why did God ask Abraham to offer his son Isaac as a sacrifice?

Answer 9

God wanted to test Abraham’s faith.

Question 10

Why did God’s people in the Old Testament make sacrifices?

Answer 10

In order to ask for forgiveness for their sins.

Question 11

How was the sacrifice of the ram, instead of Isaac, like the later Old Testament Israelites sacrifices?

Answer 11

The sacrifice took a place of deserved punishment.

Question 12

What New Testament sacrifice ended the need for the Old Testament sacrificial system?

Answer 12

Jesus death paid once and for all our sins.

Question 13

The story of Abraham’s test is like the story of Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross because….

Answer 13

In both cases a father was willing to offer his son and both cases the son was willing to do it.

Question 14

The story of Abrahams test is different from the story of jesus sacrifice on the cross because…..

Answer 14

Only Jesus died and it took care of all our sins.

Question 15

What did God promise the Israelites at Mount Sinai?

Answer 15

They would be his chosen people.

Question 16

What condition did god give the people of Israel?

Answer 16

If they would obey Him they would be his chosen people.

Question 17

Why did God give the Israelites the Ten Commandments

Answer 17

God gave them the commandments by which to obey.

Question 18

How did the people respond after Moses had read the book of the covenant?

Answer 18

They promised to obey.

Question 19

To mark the occasion and to remind the people of their covenant with God, Moses set up 12 pillars. What did the 12 pillars represent.

Answer 19

The 12 tribes of Israel.

Question 20

What did Moses do with the blood from the sacrifices?

Answer 20

He sprinkled it on the altar and on the people.

Question 21

What does the blood of the covenant point to?

Answer 21

The Cross.

Question 22

Why did God not let David build the temple?

Answer 22

He was a warmonger, he wanted a man of peace to build his house.

Question 23

What promises did God make in his covenant with David?

Answer 23

David’s descendants would sit on the throne forever and ever.

Question 24

How did God fulfill his covenant with David in the New Testament?

Answer 24

Jesus is David’s descendant and his kingdom reigns forever.

Question 25

What promise did God make to the exiled people of Israel and Judah

Answer 25

Their children would return to their own land.

Question 26

Jeremiah proclaimed God’s promise that he would make a new covenant with the people of Israel and Judah. How would this covenant be different from the covenant God had made with their forefathers at Mount Sinai? Name at least three differences.

Answer 26

They would not be written on stone again.
We don’t need priests to ask God for forgiveness.
This covenant is made for all people.

Question 27

In what way’s did Adam and Eve’s sin affect all of creation?

Answer 27

When Adam and Eve sinned every person in the world became sinful.