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Faith and Revelation

Faith and Revelation. Knowing God Through Sacred Scripture. Faith and Revelation. Chapter 5. Chapter 5. The Old Testament: God Reveals Himself. Chapter Objectives. The student will be able to understand:. The good creation Man as image of God The fall of Adam and Eve in the garden

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Faith and Revelation

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  1. Faith and Revelation Knowing God Through Sacred Scripture

  2. Faith and Revelation Chapter 5

  3. Chapter 5 The Old Testament: God Reveals Himself

  4. Chapter Objectives The student will be able to understand: The good creation Man as image of God The fall of Adam and Eve in the garden The promise of a future savior Original Sin The Flood and the covenant with Noah The covenant with Abraham Isaac as a type of Christ Joseph as a type of Christ Exodus The Mosaic covenant Israel in the desert The conquest of Canaan Kingship of Israel The primary features of the Davidic Covenant The secondary features of the Davidic Covenant Solomon’s kingdom Good and bad kings and the prophets The Assyrian captivity The fall of Judah The prophets The return to Jerusalem An independent Israel

  5. Keys to Chapter 5 Man has married God’s image in himself, a Fall God desires to repair God established covenants with Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses and David. These set the stage for Christ’s New Covenant. The story of Israel is one of God’s faithfulness and the Chosen’s People’s infidelity. Christ and his Church are present in the Old Testament under the veil of type and prophecy.

  6. For Discussion: A basic overview of the Old Testament. The meaning of Creation as revealed by God. The gradual formation of the People of God. How God revealed himself to his people. The meaning of covenant, and the various promises made to his people. How the Old Testament prepared the way for Jesus Christ.

  7. God’s Covenant with Adam - Lesson Objectives - The good creation Man as image of God

  8. God’s Covenant with Adam - Basic Questions - • Is creation good, evil or both? • God’s creation is good. • What does it mean to say man is made in • the image of God? • God made man in the image of God, which means human beings are persons in a family relationship with God and their fellow human beings.

  9. God’s Covenant with Adam - Anticipatory Set - • Incorporate Genesis 1:1-2:3 into opening prayer. Discuss the following question. • What truths about the universe can be • drawn from the first creation narrative?

  10. God’s Covenant with Adam - Focus Question - • What does inspiration mean? • God inspired the Sacred Authors to write the things • he wanted and nothing more by an interior, silent prompting in which the writer wrote in his own style of expression without necessarily sensing any divine action.

  11. God’s Covenant with Adam - Focus Question - • Why is the Bible free from error? • It is free from error because God himself is its author.

  12. God’s Covenant with Adam - Focus Question - • What is the Church’s role in the inerrancy • of Scripture? • The Church’s role has been to teach which of the ancient writings are the inspired ones and to preserve and interpret them for us.

  13. God’s Covenant with Adam - Focus Question - • How can the Bible be read both as individual books and as a whole? • Each individual story in the Bible contains its own truths and reveals something about the nature of God. When read in its entirety, the Bible emerges as a complete vision of salvation history.

  14. God’s Covenant with Adam - Focus Question - • How does Genesis oppose the belief matter is evil and only the spiritual is good? • God saw each stage of his creation as good and the totality of it as very good.

  15. God’s Covenant with Adam - Focus Question - • What is the origin of the temptation to believe matter is evil? • It comes from human experience, living in a fallen world with its pain, suffering, and moral evil. This evil can blind people to the inherent goodness of God’s creation.

  16. God’s Covenant with Adam - Focus Question - • What is the origin of evil in the world? • The sin committed by our first parents—Original Sin—allowed evil to enter into God’s good creation.

  17. God’s Covenant with Adam - Guided Exercise - • Discuss the following question: • “God spoke all creation into being.” Why is this a profound statement especially in light of the New Testament?

  18. God’s Covenant with Adam - Focus Question - • What is reasoning by analogy? • It is the tool of theology by which something is understood because of its likeness to another.

  19. God’s Covenant with Adam - Focus Question - • What can be learned by analogy from the idea of image of God? • Scripture teaches human beings are made in the image and likeness of God; from this, something can be known about God’s nature.

  20. God’s Covenant with Adam - Focus Question - • According to reason, what is a perfect father? • Human fathers are responsible for their families, are to give everything to their children, and should be willing to die for them, if necessary.

  21. God’s Covenant with Adam - Focus Question - • What does perfect human fatherhood reveal about the Fatherhood of God? • The perfect quality of fatherhood by analogy is life-giving love.

  22. God’s Covenant with Adam - Focus Question - • What does Divine Revelation teach about God’s inner nature as Trinity? • God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit are the perfect “family.”

  23. God’s Covenant with Adam - Focus Question - • How does Genesis reveal human beings were created to live as a family? • God created man male and female and said, “Be fruitful and multiply” (Gn 1:28). Thus, human beings are images of God not only as individuals but also in their relationships—especially as families—mirroring the perfect “family” love of God.

  24. God’s Covenant with Adam - Graphic Organizer - • Complete the following table about the meaning of human beings having been created in the image of God.

  25. God’s Covenant with Adam - Focus Question - • What is the five-stage pattern of the Old Covenant? • Each covenant was made with a larger group of people, from marriage—through household, tribe, and nation—to kingdom.

  26. God’s Covenant with Adam - Focus Question - • Why did the Son of God become the Son of Man? • Human beings can become adopted children of God.

  27. God’s Covenant with Adam - Focus Question - • What does it mean to be a child of God? • It means sharing in the very life of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

  28. God’s Covenant with Adam - Guided Exercise - • Discuss the following question: • What new dimension of the image of • God did the early Christians begin to discover?

  29. Adam breaks the covenant - Lesson Objectives - The fall of Adam and Eve in the garden The promise of a future savior Original Sin

  30. Adam breaks the covenant - Basic Questions - • How did Adam and Eve fall from grace? • • Adam and Eve were seduced by the “serpent” and brought spiritual death to themselves and their descendants; this is called Original Sin. • What is the Protoevangelium? • The curse Adam and Eve incurred is a manifestation of God’s love, which included the promise of a savior.

  31. Adam breaks the covenant - Basic Questions - • What is Original Sin? • Original Sin is a wound in human nature that became evident in Adam and Eve’s offspring.

  32. Adam breaks the covenant - Anticipatory Set - • Read Genesis 3. • Compose and answer 3 Focus Questions based on the text about the Fall of man.

  33. Adam breaks the covenant - Focus Question - • Who is the serpent according to the New Testament? • It is the Devil (or Satan), the deceiver who works against God’s plans for his people.

  34. Adam breaks the covenant - Focus Question - • What kind of death did Adam and Eve immediately experience when they disobeyed God’s command? • They lost supernatural life, the life of grace in their souls.

  35. Adam breaks the covenant - Focus Question - • According to the Catechism, no. 403, why does the Church baptize infants who have committed no personal sin? • Adam has transmitted Original Sin through human conception.

  36. Adam breaks the covenant - Guided Exercise - • Mini-lecture on the effects of Original Sin

  37. Adam breaks the covenant - Focus Question - • What does the Old Testament mean by “the wrath of God”? • It refers to God’s just punishment for sin, which is intended to lead his people to repentance and back to his friendship.

  38. Adam breaks the covenant - Focus Question - • How is suffering not necessarily an evil? • Suffering can be a needed remedy for sin, a cure for illness.

  39. Adam breaks the covenant - Focus Question - • Why did Cain kill Abel? • He killed out of envy.

  40. Adam breaks the covenant - Focus Question - • What does the sin of Cain demonstrate? • Actions and desires can become disordered by sin.

  41. Adam breaks the covenant - Guided Exercise - • Discuss the following question: • Why does the Church see God’s words to the serpent • as the Protoevangelium (or First Gospel)?

  42. Adam breaks the covenant - Focus Question - • What was the general, moral condition of the world not long after Cain killed Abel? • The world became dominated by unjust, violent people. “The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually” (Gn 6:5)

  43. Adam breaks the covenant - Graphic Organizer - • Complete the following table about the consequences of Original Sin.

  44. The covenants with noah and abraham - Lesson Objectives - The Flood and the covenant with Noah The covenant with Abraham Isaac as a type of Christ Joseph as a type of Christ

  45. The covenants with noah and abraham - Basic Questions - • What is the significance of the Flood and God’s covenant with Noah? • Because of the wicked violence of the human race, God sent a Flood to destroy life on earth. God saved the only righteous man, Noah, (and his family) and created a new covenant with humanity, the sign of which is the rainbow. The Flood is a type of the Sacrament of Baptism and the Ark a type of the Church.

  46. The covenants with noah and abraham - Basic Questions - • What kind of covenant did God make with Abraham? • God made a covenant with Abraham, promising him countless descendants, the land of Canaan as a dwelling place, a line of kings, and a worldwide blessing. • How is Isaac a type of Christ? • Abraham was obedient to the point he offered his son Isaac, a type of Christ, in sacrifice. • How is Joseph a type of Christ? • Joseph, who saved his tribe through his innocent suffering, • is a type of Christ.

  47. The covenants with noah and abraham - Anticipatory Set - • Read Genesis 11:27-13:18. Whatever reason God had to choose Abram, it was not because he was what we would call a saint. • Point out examples of Abram’s imperfect values.

  48. The covenants with noah and abraham - Guided Exercise - • Complete a paragraph shrink on the paragraph • “Christians see the Flood…” (p. 135)

  49. The covenants with noah and abraham - Focus Question - • Why did God decide to start the human race again? • He was disheartened by their evil.

  50. The covenants with noah and abraham - Focus Question - • What did God promise in his covenant with Noah? • He promised never to destroy the world again by flood and gave Noah and his family dominion over it.

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