Unit 2 Review

Unit 2 Review

1. Creation

   • Wasn't written to answer specific questins
     • Written to give us picture of who God is
   • There were seven days
     • 1-Light
     • 3-Land/Vegetation
     • 2-Sky/Waters
     • 4-Lights- Sun, Moon, Stars, etc.
     • 5-Sea Creatures/ Birds
     • 6-Animals/man/Food
     • 7-Sabbath/Completion
   • God created order in the universe
   • God made man in his image.
   • Loneliness- first thing God says is "not good"
   • God literally spoke creation into being.

2. The Fall

   • Two trees in the gared
     • Tree of Life
     • Tree of Knowledge of good and evil
   • Eve was told 3 lies from Satan
     • You shall not eat of any tree in the garden
     • You will surely not die
     • You will be like God
   • Temptation based on three things
     • desires of flesh
     • desires of eyes
     • pride of life
   • Eve's temptations were
     • saw the tree was good for food (flesh)
     • it was delight to eyes (eyes)
     • was to be desired to make one wise (pride)
   • The consequences for sin are
     • separation from God
     • multiply pain in childbirth
     • must work hard for food
     • death
   • This story tells us God created man to
     • life forever (not experience death)
     • have a close relationship w/ Him
     • he sinless and free of shame & guilt
     • be innocent
     • live in harmony with nature (His creation)
     • have free will or choice

3. Cain & Abel

   • First children born to Eve.
   • First offerings to God.
     • Abel's offering accepted
     • Cain's offering rejected
   • Cain is very angry that his offering is rejected.
   • Cain kills Abel because he is jealous.
     • Cain commits the first murder in the Bible
   • God punishes Cain.
     • God curses the ground
     • Cain will be a fugitive and a wanderer on Earth
   • Even though Cain is 1stborn, linage in the Bible doesn't follow him

4. The Flood

   • Man becomes more corrupt and sinful.
   • Noah is instructed to build an ark of gopher wood.
   • God gives further instructions to Noah.
     • Bring your wife.
     • Bring your 3 sons & their wives.
     • Bring 2 of every kind of animal (male and female)
     • Bring 7 pairs of clean animals
   • It rains for 40 days and 40 nights on Earth.
   • All living things die. The waters stay for 150 days.
   • God makes his first covenant with man.
     • God will never destroy the life on Earth with a flood.

5. Tower of Babel

   • God scatters their language
   • Man disobeys God by building a tower to honor themselves.
   • God doesn't like the proud and disobedient.
   • Man moves east to the plain of shinar.
   • This is the beginning of different languages.
   • By now, all of man has the same language.