Unit 3: Genesis (Fall and Early World)

Question 1

What is the symbolic meaning of the “Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil?”

Answer 1

The tree on knowledge of good and evil = taking God’s place deciding what is good or evil

Question 2

3) Define Evil

Answer 2

-The lack of good that should be there.

Question 3

Active Will:

Answer 3

What someone, or God directly causes.

Question 4

Passive will

Answer 4

What God allows.

Question 5

5) Sin principles/stages of sin:

Answer 5

Temptation, Attitude of Sin, Act of Sin, Consequence

Question 6

Temptation

Answer 6

Sin is always partially good

Question 7

Attitude of Sin

Answer 7

Sin is the fruit of a diseased attitude.

Question 8

Act of Sin

Answer 8

Sin missing the mark of goodness

Question 9

6) Know the basic story of Noah.

Answer 9

• God chooses the rightest man, and he builds an ark for every animal for 40 days and 40 nights while everything else is flooded. God makes a covenant with Noah and it’s a rainbow.

Question 10

Consequence

Answer 10

Sin is its own punishment

Question 11

7) Compare Noah and the Epic of Gilgamesh

Answer 11

• Similarities= 1 person saved, flood, Birds.
• Differences= Motivation for flood and saving, The Gods in Gilgamesh thought the

Question 12

problem of Evil

Answer 12

Omnipotent, Omnibenevolent

Question 13

Omnipotent

Answer 13

All-powerful

Question 14

Omnibenevolent

Answer 14

All-good or all-loving

Question 15

The Story of Job

Answer 15

• The devil made a lot of bad things happen to Job and to turn him against God but it didn’t work and he was still faithful to God.