Scripture Shores Period 4 (Abraham- Moses-Terms)
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JWentworth12 on October 22, 2009
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Monotheism | belief in a single God |
| Polytheism | belief in multiple Gods |
| Covenant | a usually formal, solemn, and binding agreement between two parties |
| Promise | a verbal agreement |
| Faith | belief, trust, and loyalty to God with no proof of his existence |
| Atone | turn away from sin or do penitence |
| Atonement | making amends for sin or crime |
| Holy | belonging to, or pertaining to God and/or diving power |
| Rule/Law | were intended to mantain morality and keep order |
| 10 Commandments | 10 rules that God set for his people |
| Yahweh | "I am Who am" |
| Adoni | another term for God |
| Circumcision | the removal of a mans foreskin, but a sign that we are God's people |
| Seder Meal | A meal prepared every year in Jewish tradition in passover. |
| Passover | during the time of the Great Plagues, when the angel of death killed the Egytian first born boys |
| Canaan | the Promised Land of the Jews |
| Manna | food that God gave the Israelites during the Exodus |
| Ark of the Covenant | A sacred storing place for tablets of the 10 Commandments, it represented the Covenant |
| Sodom and Gomorrah | The city that God destroyed because of all the wickedness |
| Yom Kippur | A day of Atonement (Most Holy Day of the Year) |
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