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garden of eden |
adam and eve; paradise prepared by god |
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adam |
first man |
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eve |
first woman |
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the fall |
expulsion of adam and eve |
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the serpent |
chief of god's fallen angels |
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the tree of knowledge or life |
eating the fruit gave them the knowledge of good and evil |
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cain and abel |
children of adam and eve |
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enoch |
before the flood to live less than 750 years |
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methuselah |
was enoch's son |
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the flood |
noah and his family obeyed to god |
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noah |
followed god; built the ark and saved his own family |
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tower of babel |
constructed a tower to heaven; god got angry; nobody spoke the same language |
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abraham |
religious history of the hebrew nation |
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sarah |
abraham's wife |
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isaac |
son of abraham and sarah |
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sodom and gomorrah |
abraham lived among evil towns; god wished to destroy them; abraham brought out righteous people |
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hagar |
handmaiden or servan of sarah |
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ismael |
son of abraham and hagar |
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abraham's bosom |
synonym for paradise; abraham knew god and found peace |
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jacob and esau |
twin sons of issac and rebecca; jacob stole esau's birthright |
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jacob's ladder |
vision of god's angels ascending and descending |
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joseph |
favorite son of jacob;dipped joesph's coat in blood |
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moses |
hebrew parents in egypt; mother hid him in bulrushes; through moses, god sent the ten plagues |
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aaron |
god chose aaron, his brother, to be a spokesman |
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burning bush |
god appeared to moses in this form |
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land of milk and honey |
god to abraham and his descendants was known as the promised land |
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the ten plagues |
god sent moses to the pharoah to plead for the release of the israelites |
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plague 1 |
the waters of the nile turned to blood |
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plague 2 |
frogs were multiplied on the land |
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plague 3 |
lice infested both animals and people |
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plague 4 |
flies infested the land |
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plague 5 |
a disease caused the cattle to die |
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plague 6 |
people were covered with bolis |
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plague 7 |
hail destroyed crops |
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plague 8 |
locusts destroyed the crops which remained after the storm |
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plague 9 |
darkness covered the land for three days |
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plague 10 |
the first born of the cattle and people were killed |
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the passover |
israelites might escape the tenth and last plague; commanded to sprinkle blood of a lamb on their doorports; angel of death passed over to kill the first born; first born lived if bllood over doorpost |
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manna |
special bread |
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mt. sinai |
moutain where god appeared to moses and gave him the ten commandments |
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mosaic tablets |
symbol for the stone rocks upon which the ten commandments were written |
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golden calf |
moses was on mt. sinai the people became tired of wating and built a golden calf to worship; moses broke it |
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ask of the covenant |
a box where the tablets containing the ten commandments were placed |
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the mercy seat |
plate of gold on top of the ark of the covenant; part in the ritual of asking god's forgiveness for sins |
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pilar of fire, pillar of cloud |
columns of fire and cloud which appeared in the sky |
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aaron's rod |
to prove that aaron's descendants were to be given te priestly office, the rod or staff, of each of the twelve tribes were placed |
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firery serpent |
symbol of healing for the medical profession;firery serpents sent to the israelites because they had complained about not having anything to eat except manna |
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rosh hashona |
religious festival celebrating the new year |
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yom kippur |
festival occours ten days after rosh hashonah and is known as the "day of atonement" |
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jubliee |
after every seventh year was a sabbatical year in ; all slaves were set free with the phrase "proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all inhabitants therof" |
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joshua |
after the death of moses, joshua took over |
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seige of jericho |
city near the jordan river captured by the israelites of the way to the promise land |
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samson and delilah |
samson-dedicated from birth to the service of god and one of the judges; delilah- samson fell in love with her; she cut his hair and turned him into Philistines enemy |
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ruth, boaz, naomi |
ruth wasn't a hebrew but when her hebrew husband dided she married boaz, had a son named obed |
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samuel |
last of the great judges who ruled isreal |
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saul |
first hebrew king; famous for his many moods |
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david |
followed saul as king of israel; brave warrior who slew the giant goliath, a philistine with a rock from his sling-shot |
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nathan |
trusted advisor to king david; courage to stand up to the king and tell him that he been in killing bath-sheba's husband, uriah |
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bath-sheba |
wife of uriah; son's death was a punishment from god because david had caused uriah to be killed. |
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absalom |
very handsome son of david; killed his half brother, father david forgave him; later killed david with three darts to the heart |
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solomon |
another son of king david; wisest man on earth; god told him he could have anything he wished for and it would be gathered |
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ahab |
a king of the divided kingdom of judah; married jezebel |
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jesebel |
wife of ahab; responsible for turning him the worship of god; woman who turns someone from good to evil |
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elijah |
famous prophet under king ahab who challenged the prophets of the false idol baal |
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esther |
was queen of persia |
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job |
righteous man in god's sight; satan made job lose his wealth and respect and job stood steadfast and never cursed god and god returned everything back to job |
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daniel |
taken to babylon after the fall of jersualem in 826 b.c.; thrown in the lion's den and the fiery furnace because of his faiith in god |
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jonah |
jonah tried to escape telling people about god and was thrown overboard and a big fish swalled him; he prayed, god rescued, he repented and taught the city about god and the city was saved |
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balm in gilead |
place known for medicine and aromatic herbs; turned agains god and were in need of spiritual healing |
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hanukkah |
jewish festival; celebrates the victory of the jews over the syrians in 165 b.c. and the rededication of the temple for worship |
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christ |
known as jesus; the promised savior; or messiah; king of israel |
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joesph |
jesus' earthly father and a carpenter in nazareth |
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mary |
mother of christ; told by the angel gabriel that she would bear a son and name him emmanuel or jesus |
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immaculate concption |
prophets of the old testament foretold that the savior would be bron of a virgin |
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the nativity |
term used for the birth of jesus, the son of god, to the virgin mary |
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the magi |
known as the wise men from the east; names were melchior, gaspar, and balthasar |
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herod |
king of judah at the time of the birth of christ; ordered that all male children under the age of two were to be killed |
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john the baptist |
cousin of jesus who preached repentance; jesus was baptized by him in the river jordan |
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the sermon of the mount |
first sermon of jesus; contained the beatitudes; a list of type of people who will be blessed |
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apostle or disciple |
were twelve men handpicked by jesus to be his chosen followers; after his death and resurrection they were to carry on his mission |
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matthew |
was a tax collector and one of the twelve disciples of jesus |
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peter |
simon peter was one of jesus' disciples; known as the rock; jesus said he would found his church on peter's faith |
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judas iscariot |
one of the twelve disciples of jesus; betrayed jesus for thirty pieces of silver; later repented but too late; he hanged himself |
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thomas |
disciple of jesus who was absent when jesus first appeared to the disciples after his resurrection |
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john |
was the disciple most beloved of christ |
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gospel |
another word for good news |
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parable |
simple story illustrating moral or religious point |
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good samaritan |
love for one's neighbor |
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prodical son |
parable told by jesus to teach forgiveness |
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transfiguration |
a person takes on a shining or glowing appearance |
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miracle |
extordinary even considered to be the result of divine intervention |
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wedding at cana |
cana of galilee was the site of jesus' first miracle; jesus took 70 storage barrels of water and turned them into wine |
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lazarus |
brother of mary and martha- followers of jesus; jesus raised him from the dead |
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mary magdalene |
sinner who changed her lifestyle, believed in jesus, and became a devout follower |
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mary and martha |
were sisters and devoted followers of christ |
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pharisees, sadducees, scribes |
were the educated men during the time of jesus; questioning the things he did and trying to trap him into blasphemy |
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whited sepulcher |
sepulcher is a tomb made of rocks |
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palm sunday |
day that christ rod triumphantly into jersalem on a donkey |
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garden of gethsemene |
place where jesus often went with his disciples to pray, rest, and talk; here that he was betrayed by judas iscariot |
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the last supper |
followers were to reinact this meal as a remembrance of jesus |
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pilate |
governor of jerusalem; washes his hands; jesus to the jews to be crucified |
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crucifixion |
was the method used to kill jesus; nailed to a cross by his hands and feet and left to die |
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golgotha |
hill on which jesus was crucified |
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simon the cyrenean |
man from cryene called upon to carry the cross for christ up the hill to golgotha |
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resurrection |
term meaning rising from the dead |
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the ascension |
occurred 40 days after the resurrection of christ; jesus promised the disciples that they would recieve help in taking the message to the people |
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pentecost |
jewish celebration which occured 50 days after the passover; feast of weeks; on this day the holy spirit decended upon peter and the disciples in the form of tongues of fire |
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paul |
known as saul before he was converted to the christian faith; saul was blinded by the strong light |
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stephen |
first christian matyr; stoned to death while paul/saul watched |
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revelation of st. john |
last book in the new testament; apocryphal means hidden; second coming of christ |
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babylon |
city know for its wealth, grandeur, and wickedness; citizens of jerusalem were taken there in exile |
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armegeddon |
armageddon was a battlefield where several historical events took place |
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second coming |
christians believe that christ will come again to judge the earth. |
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