Unit 2 Review

Unit 2 Review

1. Tower of Babel

   • God tells man to move disperse throughout the world
     • As they move East, they find a plain called Shinar, and decide to build a city there so they will not be spread out, and build a tower to Heaven as a monument to their own greatness.
       • They directly disobey God by not dispersing over the earth.
       • As they build the tower, God walks among them and changes their language. They stop building the tower and resume dispersing over the land. From then on, the place was called Babel.
         • We see from this story that God opposes the proud.
         • This is the beginning of different languages.
   • This event most likely happened many hundred years after the flood.

2. Creation

   • 6 days of creation, 1 day of rest
     • God said it all was good, except that man had no partner.
       • God Creates Eve to accompany Adam
       • God makes Man in his image.
         • God set man over all creation, giving them dominion over the earth.
   • Day 1-Heavens, Earth, and Light
   • Day 2-Sky and the Waters
   • Day 3-Land and the Plants
   • Day 4- The Sun, Moon, and Stars
   • Day 5-Birds and Fish
   • Day 6-Animals and Man

3. Flood

   • Over time, the world becomes more and more corrupt.
     • God looks down and sees what His creation is doing, he says that he is sorry that he made it, and plans to destroy it all.
       • Noah is the one righteous man in his entire generation, and finds favor in the eyes of the Lord.
         • Noah is told to build an arc out of gopher wood, and that when it is finished, he is to take his wife, their son sons, and their wives on the boat, and 2 animals of every kind, and 7 clean animals of each kind.
           • When Noah and his family disembark the ark, God sends them a rainbow as a covenant that he will never flood the earth again.
             • This is God's first promise to man.
           • It may have taken Noah and his family over three years to build the ark.
       • God sends rain for 40 days and nights, and the entire earth is covered.

4. Fall

   • 2 Trees in the Garden, the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
     • God allows man to eat from the tree of life, signifying that in the beginning, we were made to live forever.
       • Besides living forever, other things point to the fact that creation was much different in the garden. For example, when the snake speaks to Eve, she is not startled at all. This might be because all animals were able to speak.
     • God does not allow for man to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
       • In the beginning, man was innocent and pure, like a child
       • Satan tempts Eve to eat from the tree using three lies, that she would not die, would be like God, and that God said that she could not eat from any tree.

5. Cain and Abel

   • First child of Adam and Eve.
     • Abel was a shepherd, and Cain was a farmer.
     • Both brought offerings, but while Abel brought his first fruits, Cain only brought a portion of his crops.
       • Cain's offering was rejected while Abel's was accepted.
         • God asks Cain why he should be angry and sad, and tell him that if he was to to what is right, he would be accepted.
           • God warns Cain that if he is to to do wrong, sin is crouching outside the door, waiting to take control.
           • Even though God warns Cain, he still lures Abel out into a field and kills him. God curses him to be a wanderer for life, and also that the ground will be even more hard to farm.
             • God uses many interesting people in the lineage of Christ, but Cain is not one of them. Instead, He uses Seth, who is born after Abel dies.