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Son of God: The Fall and the God of Israel POWERPOINT 5A

Son of God: The Fall and the God of Israel POWERPOINT 5A. Red Letter Outline. What is “ adam ” and what is “ adamah ”? What does God do to “ adamah ” to make “ adam ”? And what is Adam’s punishment at the end of the chapter?

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Son of God: The Fall and the God of Israel POWERPOINT 5A

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  1. Son of God: The Fall and the God of IsraelPOWERPOINT 5A

  2. Red Letter Outline • What is “adam” and what is “adamah”? What does God do to “adamah” to make “adam”? And what is Adam’s punishment at the end of the chapter? • What does God see is “not good” in the garden? What is the first step God takes to correct it? What is the second step he takes? • How may the “tree of the knowledge of good and evil” be said to represent free will? • How does temptation seem to work in Genesis 3? What is the experience like? • God confronts the couple with a series of questions, after they eat the fruit. What are the questions? If God already knows the answers to the questions, why then might He ask?

  3. Christian Doctrine 1 / Dr. Billings Prayer of the Weekattributed to Mother Teresa: “Anyway” People are often unreasonable, irrational, and self-centered.  Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives.  Be kind anyway. If you are successful, you will win some unfaithful friends and some genuine enemies.  Succeed anyway. If you are honest and sincere people may deceive you.  Be honest and sincere anyway. What you spend years creating, others could destroy overnight.  Create anyway. If you find serenity and happiness, some may be jealous.  Be happy anyway. The good you do today, will often be forgotten.  Do good anyway. Give the best you have, and it will never be enough.  Give your best anyway. In the final analysis, it is between you and God.  It was never between you and them anyway.

  4. Patron Saint of the WeekCatherine of Sienna • 1347-1380; from Sienna, Italy; • Worked to bring the papacy back to Rome after it was displaced to Avignon (which is currently in France); • Theological works with great mystical and rational insight • A “doctor of the church” – one of 3 women • Dedicated to help the ill and the poor. QUOTATION • "You are rewarded not according to your work or your time but according to the measure of your love." Dialogue 165

  5. Genesis 2-3: the Creation of Adam and Eve What is “adam” and what is “adamah”? What does God do to “adamah” to make “adam”? • “Adam” is Hebrew for man • “Adamah” is Hebrew for “ground” • God shapes the ground and breathes life into it.

  6. Genesis 3 – Free Will? What does God see is “not good” in the garden? What is the first step God takes to correct it? What is the second step he takes? • Not good the man is alone • Creates all the animals (not sufficient) • Creates Eve from his rib (finally!)

  7. Genesis 3 – Free Will? How may the “tree of the knowledge of good and evil” be said to represent free will? • The tree provides the humans with a choice; • The choice is to follow God’s will or not; • Without such a tree, humans could neither choose to reject God, nor to accept His will; • They would not be capable of choosing God (it would be “automatic” (like puppets?) • God (who is the N.T. says IS love) seems to think being able to love is preferable to being puppets

  8. Genesis 3 - Temptation How does temptation seem to work in Genesis 3? What is the experience like? • It minimizes the significance of the action; • It questions the commandment, which causes Eve to “second guess” herself (“What did He ask?”); • It distortsthe truth, creating a distorted focus and obscures what God really said(obscures the truth); • It rejects the command: at its core: a simple and NOT subtle rejection of the truth: the serpent says, “You will not die” - boldly contradicting the word of God (Gen 3:4) NOTE: To give Eve a break - God commanded the man, not Eve directly - she was not in existence when this occurred. She heard it indirectly, from Adam.

  9. Genesis 3 – God calls God confronts the couple with a series of questions, after they eat the fruit. What are the questions? If God already knows the answers to the questions, why then might He ask? • God poses a series of questions • Where are you? • Who told you that you were naked? • Have you eaten from the tree of which I had forbidden you to eat? • What is this you have done? • They can be seen as “rhetorical”: to make a point or convey a message. The questions can be seen as calling for an “examination of conscience” • God is not seeking information, but seeking responsibility • These are questions they should ask themselves (mirroring the questions God asks them): Are they where God wants them? Did God tell them they were naked? Did God want them to eat the fruit? Do they understand what they have done? • The couple have a chance to repent, but they evade, blame others, and try to cover it up: Eve blames the serpent; Adam blames Eve.

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