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Old Testament

The Creation (1)
- Life
  - God created plants, animals, and humans; restec 7th day
- Babylonian Myth
  - The creation story basically discredits the myth
- 7 days
  - Multiples of 7 are used throughout this story
- God
  - Whatever he spoke was created
- Night and Day
  - It was evening and then morning, then the day ended
- Lights
  - The bible never says the sun
The Flood (3)
- Noah
  - Didn't tell anyone about the flood
- Animals
  - Saved 2 animals of each kind
- The Ark
  - 8 people were on the Ark
- Rain
  - Rained for 40 days and 40 nights
- Others
  - People questioned Noah about what he was doing
- Guilt
  - The first thing Noah did when he got off the boat was get drunk. I bet he felt guilty after basically watching the world die
Blessings of Abraham (4)
- Sons of Abram
  - Ishmael and Issac
- Tests
  - God told Abraham to kill Issac on a mountain
- Jealousy
  - Sarah was jealous of Hagar and made then get sent away
- Promises
  - God promised Abraham things because he obeyed
- Sarah
  - Wife of Abraham
- Symbolism
  - Issac walking up with sticks on his back represents Jesus
The Fall (2)
- Eve
  - Mother or Life
- Adam
  - Humanity
- Rules
  - God told them they could do anything but eat from the trees
- Trees
  - When Adam and Eve ate the fruit they thought they would become as wise as God
- Sin
  - Sin was not in the world before the fall
- Satan
  - Satan in the form of the serpant tempted Eve to eat the fruit
The Exile (8)
- Persians
  - Persian King let the Jews go
- Israel and Judah
  - Israel by Assyria; Judah was taken by Babylonians
- Assyrians
  - Cruel; taken over by Persians
- Refocus
  - When Judah was taken the Jews decided to start following God again
- Rebuild
  - Jews were allowed to go back and rebuild their temple and worship God
- Promises
  - By the end of the OT the Jews were thinking that God will fulfill his promises to Abraham
The Kings (7)
- Solomon
  - Know for being wise
- Rehaboam
  - Causes civil war
- David
  - After God's own heart; kills Galiath
- Saul
  - Went crazy
- Taxes
  - Solomon taxed the north the a lot
- Civil War
  - Splits into Israel and Judah
The Exodus (5)
- Moses
  - Part the Red Sea
- Aaron
  - Went with Moses to talk to the Pharoah
- Miracles
  - Aaron and Moses did miracles for the Pharoah to persaude him
- Plaques
  - Choose to only remember 7 of them
- Passover
  - Jews needed to have blood on door frames so the first born boys could live
- Stubborn
  - The Pharaoh was stubborn and would not let the Jews go
Mt. Sinai (6)
- Moses
  - Led the people out of Egypt
- Ten Commands
  - Written on stone tablets; later had to be rewritten
- Joshua
  - Moses's 2nd in command
- God
  - He appeared in a dense cloud
- At the mountain
  - The people were not allowed to touch the mountain
- While Moses was gone
  - The people started the worship a golden calf while Moses was up in the mountians