Religion Notes
Diapositivas del conjunto (14)
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Chapter One. (Answers in light blue)
- Old testament - Ancient Legal document
- New Testament - New legal document, 2nd half of bible
- Bible - 66 books, 2 parts, many authors, word of god
- Testament - legal document
- Biblical Books: Protestant and Jewish faiths have ____ OT books - 39
- Catholics and Anglicans faiths have ____ OT books - 46
- Disobedience to god brings - quick and severe punishment
- Obedience to god brings - blessings
- The story of god and abraham- Abraham creates covenant with God that promises offspring and land, prophets give us laws, chosen ones are Abraham's family, the torah is 614 laws
- Abraham- god creates a contract w/ him
- Covenant- offspring and land contract
- Prophets- gives us laws (614)
- Chosen ones- Abraham's descendants
- Torah- 614 laws
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- Circumcision- practices on the new faith
- Laws- 614
- Abraham's offspring and religions- Ishmael: islamic faith, Isaac: jewish faith
- Genesis- origin of humanity
- Exodus- 10 commandments, fleeing egypt
- Leviticus- more laws
- Numbers- census, counting everyone
- Deuteronomy- last book, repeats laws, moses last speeches
- How to look up a bible verse- Chapter, book, verse
- 1 Reason to study OT- book of faith, political reasonsCouncil of Jamnia (short summary)- Divided the books and different faiths
- Believers hoped for ___ w/ god- eternal life
- Age of the earth- 4.5 billion
- Carbon dating- testing age old materials using carbon
- Archaeology- the study of human history through physical remains
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- Astronomy- space, stars, etc
- Paleontology- past life from fossils
- Geological Record- the long period of time as recorded in the rocks earth
- Day 1- Light was created, day and night
- Day 2- Sky and air was created to separate water on earth from the water above
- Day 3- Water on earth was gathered to form seas and separate land
- Day 4- Sun moon and stars were created to provide light and mark seasons
- Day 5- Birds and sea creatures
- Day 6- Land creatures and humans
- Day 7- god rested
- And why he does do this - sometimes he modeled what he wanted his people to do
- 2 views of time in 1st creation story- Earth is thousands of years old, earth is billions of years old
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- difference of 1st and 2nd creation stories- The first story is an overview of creation and the second story zooms in on the creation of human beings
- 2nd creation story: how men and women are created- God made man from dirt and then put him in a deep sleep and took a part from him (his rib) and created women
- Garden of Eden- God's garden that he places Adam and Eve in
- 2 trees in GoE- Tree of Life and The tree of knowledge of good and evil
- 2 rivers on GoE- Tigris and Euphrates
- 1 restriction in GoE- Do not eat from the tree of of knowledge of good and evil
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- “The fall”-
- A serpent tells eve to eat from the tree of good and evil
- Eve eats from the tree of good and evil, so she can become as powerful as god
- She shares with Adam
- Adam & Eve realized they were naked, ran to the bushes & sewed fig leaves to cover
- They tried to hide from God
- God knows something is up, asks how they know that they even are naked
- Adam blames Eve
- Eve blames the serpent
- This event caused Adam & Eve from a state of perfection and innocence to sin & death
- 2 punishments of “the fall”- Women: pain in childbirth, Men: work to get food
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Chapter Two. (Answers in green)
- Cain - older son of adam and eve, becomes a farmer
- Abel - younger son who raised flocks
- 1st Born- most valued
- Cain vs Abel- they made an offering to god
- Cain offered some fruit (doesn't care, no effort was put into his offering)
- Abel offered some of the 1st born flock (does care and puts effort into his offering)
- Mrs Cain - Cain’s wife just appeared, could have been a very distant child of adam and eve
- God’s protection of Cain- special mark
- Next child for Adam & Eve after Cain vs Abel - Seth
- Nephilim - a large and mighty people
- Noah - God wanted to wipe the wickedness of the earth w the exception being Noah and his family
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- Ark -> 3 docks are equal to- 1 ½ football fields
- 3 categories of animals
- 2 of each kind of- living animal
- 7 of each - clean animal (for offerings or food)
- 7 of each kind of - bird
- Olive Branch - can only grow in low elevations so when the 3rd bird came back w an olive branch Noah knew it was safe to come home
- 1st thing Noah did after the flood- made an altar to god
- God's promise and symbol - rainbow
- Noah’s indecent exposure story- Noah fell asleep drunk and w/out his clothes on, his son Ham saw him and jokingly told his brothers, his 2 brothers covered him w/out seeing him. Noah blessed Shem & Japheth and cursed Ham
- Tower of Babel - 1 group tried to make a tower that reached the heavens and god made them all speak different languages so they gave up
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- Ziggurats - towering buildings usually w/ a shrine on top to honor the gods
- 2 things about the Sumerians - created earliest form of writing and lived in southern Mesopotamia
- Credibility of Gilgamesh - 2 other living kings named in the story connect the story to history
- Gilgamesh - searching for immortality
- Utnapishtim- human who joined the gods; immortality
- Enlil- angry god who decides to flood the earth bc humans were loud
- Ea- nice god, tells Utnapishtim Enlil’s plan
- How the epic of Atrahasis connects to the epic of Gilgamesh - The story is very similar and in the EoA there was a flood myth based on a local river flood
- How the epic of gilgamesh connects to Noah’s flood - both stories are about floods
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- Canaan- land in and around modern day Israel
- Sarai - Abram's wife
- Lot - Abe's nephew
- Pattern in Bible:
- 1st - faith
- 2nd - reward
- Dead sea scrolls & Sarai- they explain Sarai's beauty
- Abram’s fear of Egypt - people will kill him to get to sarai if they find out she's his wife
- Abrams plan in egypt - Abram pretends that Sarai is his sister
- Trade between Abram and Pharaoh- Abe will get sheep/cattle and servants in exchange for Sarai becoming one of the Pharaohs maidans
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- How Abram and Sarai leave Egypt - Bc of disease Abe is dismissed
- Covenant- a promise/binding contract
- Who- between god and abe
- What- to keep his promises of land
- How- cut an animal in 2 to show that if you break the contract the same will happen to you
- Why- to negotiate the deal
- Abrams troubled sleep (good and bad) God warned abe that his offspring would be carried off and enslaved but it would be for the best
- Childbearing and ancient customs- bearing a child if very important and boosts self esteem
- Hagar - Sarai’s egyptian servant
- Hagar vs. Sarai- Sarai was mad bc Hagar was pregnant so she mistreated her
- Hagar’s escape and return- She ran to the desert but an angel appeared and told her to go back
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- Ishmael- god hears
- Abraham - father of many
- Abram - exalted father
- Sarah - princess
- Isaac - he laughs
- Circumcision and religion - A right/passage of religion that shows your solidarity to god
- Abraham’s visitors - 2 visitors that were angels, 1 that was god. they said sarah was going to have a child
- 2 reasons of Isaac’s name - Abe and Sarah laugh
- Seth - the first child for adam and eve after cain vs abel
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Chapter Three. (Answers in bright purple)
- Abimelech- King of the Philistines
- Rachel- Leban’s youngest daughter
- Zilpah- Mother of Gad and Asher
- Laban- Rebekah’s brother
- Leah- Laban’s oldest daughter
- Israel- means “struggles with god”
- Jacob’s Ladder- aka jacob’s dream
- Potiphar- one of the pharaoh’s officials
- Manassah- Means “forget”, Joseph’s son
- Jacob- Rebekah’s favorite child
- Arabs, Muslims, Islam- Ishmael's descendants
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- Rebekah- Isaac’s wife
- Cistern- a large hole used for storage
- Bilhah- mother of dan and naphtali
- Ephraim- means “fruitful” Joseph's son
- Esau - Isaac’s favorite child
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- High School Diploma Religion Diapositivas sobre Religion Notes, creado por Grace Alfiero el 15/01/2016.
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