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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Salvation history | God's plan to save us from sin played out through history |
| Covenants | promises that God makes with his people |
| Inspired | guided by God, authors sacred scripture through the human writers |
| Inerrant | the bible is without error because it is Gods word |
| Magisterium | the teaching authority of the church |
| Canon | a rule or measure, a definitive list of books acknowledged to be the inspired word of God |
| Pentateuch | first five books of the bible most important books for Jewish tradition |
| Typology | meaning a type of Christ something in the old testament that points to the new testament |
| Concupiscence | the tendency to sin. |
| Original sin | sin that has been passed down from generation to generation (Adam and Eve) |
| Protoevangelium | I will put an enimy between you and the woman and your seeds. He shall strike at your heal and you shal strike at his head. the first gospel -- what this word means |
| Primeval History | the history of all humanity and the world at large |
| Patriarch | a strong leader in faith, great leader of Gods people |
| Theophany | a God experienced appearance |
| Natural law | what you know in your heart is right and wrong. Preserving life Developing as individuals and community Sharing life w/others |
| YHWH | meaning I am who I am. The name of God is so sacred in the Jewish tradition they will not say his name aloud. |
| Judges | soldier-prophets needed to rescue the people of Israel form their enemies. they needed them to lead and guide them. |
| Jericho | the city that God put in the Israelites path- they conquered by marching around it once each day while the priests blew trumpets. On the 7th day the walls tumbled and caused an earthquake. |
| Adam and Eve | first humans to walk on the earth they were the first ones to have original sin, eve was tempted by the snake to eat the fruit of the tree of good and evil she also tempted Adam to eat the fruit, they were kicked out of the garden of Eden. |
| Cain and Abel | the sons of Adam and eve, Showed evil was here to stay because Cain killed Abel because of jealousy. Cain's sacrafice was unacceptable becasue it was not offered out of love.. |
| Noah | God told him to build an ark knowing that he would be destroying the earth to recreate it so he brought two of every kind of animal and his family along with him. 600 years old and wise. He and hsi family were the only righteous people left on earth. |
| Abraham | born in a land that worshiped idols his father was an idol maker had a son named Isaac who god told to sacrifice he was a faithful man and did so by obeying god spared the life of his son Isaac had a name change from Abram he started the ages of the patriarchs |
| Sarah | the wife of Abraham was a barren woman had a name change from Sarai |
| Lot | the nephew of Abraham whose city was corrupt he and his family was saved by god his wife turned into a pillar of sand because he looked back |
| Hagar | one of Abrahams servants who he had a child named Ishmael |
| Ishmael | son of Abraham and Hagar was the father of the Islamic tribe |
| Melchezidek | brought out bread and wine was the priest of God all high it was a type of Eucharist |
| Isaac | son of Abraham was to be sacrificed by his father Abraham name meaning laughter. Married Rebekah and had two children |
| Rebekah | wife of Isaac was the niece of Laban was also barren but then had two children named Jacob and Esau |
| Jacob | one of Isaacs son was the younger of the two took the birthright away from his brother he then runs away |
| Esau | one of Isaacs son was the older of the two sold his birthright for a bowl of stew |
| Rachel | wife of Jacob and daughter of Laban. She is childless at first but then has two sons named Joseph and Benjamin |
| Leah | Jacobs's second wife who he was tricked into marrying had six sons with Jacob |
| Joseph | Jacob's favorite son he was the youngest of the 12 sons. His brothers did not like him. Was given the cloak of many colors by his father |
| Laban | Jacobs's uncle who is the main caretaker of Rachel, the head of the house |
| Moses | a Hebrew patriarch who was raised as an Egyptian, he was chosen by God to lead the Israelites out of Egypt and into the Promised Land |
| Zipporah | the wife of Moses who went with him as he freed the Israelites |
| Aaron | the brother of Moses was a spokesman and companion for him. |
| Miriam | the woman who began to sing a song of praise to the Lord after the crossed the sea |
| Joshua | was Moses successor, he was a very faithful man to God and he was also one of the spies that went into Jericho |
| Caleb | one of the spies that also had much faith in the Lord |
| Rahab | a harlot that Joshua stayed with when they were spying, she was saved when Jericho was destroyed, she is one of the ancestors of Jesus |
| Deborah | one of the judges that tried to show the Israelites that God is the one who wins all the battles for them |
| Gideon | one of the judges that gave the Israelites advice on how to live a holy life |
| Samson | one of the judges along that ruled Israel along with Samuel |
| Saul | the first king that was chosen he wanted to lead and not follow God, he was greedy and lustful and them removed from the throne |
| Samuel | the last of the judges, first of the prophets he was the leader of Israel for a long time |
| David | the second king that was chosen to replace Saul he was not the typical young king he was unexpected, he was a shepherd boy |
| Types of truth | Symbolic, Moral, Religious, Proverbial, Historical, Scientific |
| Symbolic Truth | an idea or item that stands for something else |
| Moral Truth | explain good ways to live |
| Religious Truth | truths about who we are and what we believe |
| Proverbial Truth | meaningful sayings |
| Historical Truth | facts about how it came to be, where etc. |
| Scientific Truth | facts about life & hte way the world works not a lot in scripture b/c from a different time |
| Senses of scriptures | Allegorical, Moral, Literal, Anagogical |
| Allegorical Sense of scriptures | pointing towards Christ |
| Moral Sense of scriptures | pointing towards how we should live and act |
| Literal Sense of scriptures | what was meant by the author, analysis of words translations, literary techniques |
| Anagogical Sense of scriptures | pointing towards heaven, salvation and end times |
| 4 sections of the old testament | Law, History, Wisdom, Prophecy - Larry has wine problems |
| J (of J, E, D, P) | Yahwist |
| Yahwist | uses the name Yahweh to refer to God, describes God in human like ways |
| E (of J, E, D, P) | Elohist |
| Elohist | uses the name Elohim or God for the divine,describes god as more distant and coming through dreams and angles |
| D (of J, E, D, P) | Deuteronomic |
| Deuteronomic | source for the book of Deuteronomy |
| P (of J, E, D, P) | Priestly |
| Priestly | emphasizes matters of religious observance and ritual, describes God as more distant |
| Creation vs. evolution: creation | the story from Genesis, God created everything over the course of 6 days, sacred scripture is the word of God so it must be true |
| Creation vs. evolution: evolution | from Darwin, scientific evidence that suggests that species came to be through a gradual process of change over millions of years |
| The fall of man | explains how evil came into the world and original sin, explains why painful childbirth, hard work & marred relationship with each other and God. Explains temptation. Adam and eve sinned while they were in the garden because the snake Nahash tempted them to eat a piece of fruit from the tree of knowledge. God then found confronted them about what happened and they played the blame game, Adam blamed his wife Eve, Eve blamed the snake Nahash, god then punished all three and kicked Adam and eve out of the garden of Eden |
| Marriage covenant | God created man and saw that man was lonely so he then created a companion for man, women. The love between a man and a woman is meant to be life giving often this refers to having a family |
| Stewards of creation | God calls us to be stewards and stewardess of creation by taking care of the land that we live on even though it isn't ours.Be fertile and multiply. |
| God creates order out of chaos | before the creation the earth was a formless wasteland & darkness covered the abyss. After creation light=good, organized structure with inhabitants to fill it 2 sets of 3 |
| Gods covenant with noah | after God had flooded the earth he made a covenant with Noah that he would never flood the earth again, this covenant would be proved because God said that every time it would rain he would send a rainbow to remind us of this covenant |
| Symbolic numbers: 40 | symbolizes a long time, a period of trial and repentence |
| Symbolic numbers: 7 | Symbolizes the sign of the covenant, 7 days of creation, rains came after 7 days, flood ends on 7th month |
| Symbolic numbers: 10 | Symbolizes the 10 plagues and the Ten Commandments |
| Tower of babel | the people on earth wanted to build a tower that would reach the heavens so they did not have to rely on God anymore to get to heaven god did not like this and punished all the people and he made it so every single one of the people were speaking a different language and could not understand what they were saying. Connection to Pentecost and speaking in multiple tongues |
| Sodom and Gomorrah | they were the two cities filled with sin. Abraham intercedes for the innocent of Sodom (Lot). 1st time question of justice and fairness discussed. Abraham showed courage to bargain with God. |
| Covenant with Abraham | Innumerable descendants - Issac and then the Israelites, Land (fulfilled in Moses), Blessing |
| Binding of Isaac | when Isaac was a young boy his father was told by god to prove his loyalty to him and sacrifice his own son (a common practice for surrounding cultures) , being the only son Abraham had it was a difficult decision but Abraham did so, God saw that Abraham was a good and faithful servant so he sent an angel to stop the sacrifice. Issac as a precursor to Christ. |
| Fight for the birth right | Esau sold his birthright to Jacob for stew out of impulsiveness, later on Jacob gets a blessing from Issac tricking his father into thinking that he was Esau |
| Be fruitful and multiply | God told Abraham to be fruitful and multiply and Abraham did so creating the many tribes of Israel. New life, new beginning, marriage covenent. |
| The call of moses | the burning bush was a theophany |
| Reluctant prophets | Moses was reluctant to go deliver the people out of Egypt because he did not think he was worthy enough he had a speech impediment and did not want pharaoh to recognize him |
| 10 plagues | the plagues condemned each of the Egyptian gods. Came is sets of 3 then plus 1 |
| Name the 10 Plagues | blood, flies, hail, frogs, Egyptian cattle, locusts, gnats, boils, darkness, and the Passover |
| Sinai | God gave Moses the ten commandments on the mountain of Sinai, this mountain is holy and means strength. A covenent (2 way agreement) is made - God promises to be God of people and the people promise to follow God's law. |
| 10 commandments | center of the Hebrew/Israelite religion, the people promise to follow gods laws. Summed up as love God and love your neighbor. What man knows in his soul to be right or wrong. |
| Passover | when the lambs blood was poured on the doors of the faithful people in Egypt so that they could be saved. The angel of death would then pass over the houses and the houses that did not have the unblemished lamb's blood would have their first born sons killed. Lamb as a type of Christ. |
| Leviticus | a manual or instruction book of holiness for the priests/ Levites for holiness |
| Numbers | named so because of the census. Original hebrew title "in the wilderness" |
| Deuteronomy | meaning second law, a series of speeches from Moses, Israel is becoming a nation, ends with the death of Moses |
| Tabernacle | meaning heaven on earth, a portable tent that contained the ark of the covenant with the ten commandments |
| Exodus | meaning to go out, when Moses delivered the Israelites out of Egypt |
| Exodus Numbers pattern | the Israelites would have a good relationship with God and something would then go wrong and they would turn away from god, bad things would begin to happen and they would pray for the help of God, God would then deliver them and save them and they would continue with the good relationship with God and the cycle would repeat. |
| 3 codes of law | Covenant code (Exodus), Deuteronomic code(Deuteronomy), Levitical priestly code(Leviticus) |
| Israelite warfare | Palestine was the center of the main roads going from Mesopotamia and Egypt, so war was common. The Israelites believed that god fought the battles for them while the other cities believed that their gods fought the battles with them. After they got a king they trusted in the king instead of God. |
| Appointing a king | Samuel was getting old and they wanted someone good to govern the nation like everyone else. Samuel appointed them Saul but told them that they would be slaves to the king , Saul was a bad king and lost his kingship so David became the new king of Israel |
| Anointing | To put oil on something as a sign of consecration. Only priests, kings and Prophets were anointed in those days. |
| Saul's mistakes | Saul's first mistake- Saul wanted to lead and not follow God; his consequence was that the army then left him. He offered a sacrifice alone because he wanted something from God. Saul's second mistake- Saul was greedy and lustful. He kept the good things after destroying the village. He lied to Samuel. His consequence was that his kingship was taken away |
| Two Legs of the Church | to be stable the church stands on 2 legs: Tradition and Scripture |
| J, E, D, P | Study of the scriptures that tells us that the 5 books of the torah were compiled using several common earlier sources |
| Section of OT: History: | History of people of Israel, long story good times and bad, sometimes of a single person or event |
| Section of OT: Wisdom | Also called didactic or poetic books. How to deal with every day problems |
| Section of OT:: Prophecy | from the Prophets, messages of hope and warning |
| Section of OT: Typology | Study of types in the OT. God who authored scripture teaches by analogy. Connecting OT events w/NT events |
| Wrestling with God | Jacob wrestles with God all night long - symbolic of prayer. |
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