"While Adam and Eve obeyed God's commands , they had the greatest human paradise possible."

"Placing their trust in Satan rather than God, Adam and Eve chose to obey God over their own will. "

Thinking about evil requires thinking about:

"If there were no freedom and opportunity to choose, we would naturally be like? "

"When you move away from God, you move away from what ?"

"When God created angels, he created them as what?"

Names for angels who reject God radically and choose evil.

"Satan is equal to God in power, and is infinite. "

"Satan is only a creature, he cannot destroy the establishment of God's kingdom."

"God had created Adam and Eve to be his friends, giving them paradise with only ONE restriction. What was that restriction?"

"We can say that by restricting that one tree in the garden, God made Adam free. That is he was free to what?"

In what did Adam and Eve's sin consist on first and foremost ?

"The sin by which the first human beings disobeyed the commandments of God, choosing to follow their own will rather than God's will."

Original sin is "committed" rather than "contracted". It is a state, not an act.

The heretical belief that people , because of their natural powers of free will, can lead morally good lives without God's help.

God did not abandon Adam and Eve or their descendants after original sin.

"After Adam and Eve's sin, what did God do ?"

A name for Jesus Christ, who, through his obedience in his life and death, makes amends for the disobedience of the first Adam.

What do we mean by the term "Protoevangelium" ?

Consider the following passage: "I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; They will strike at your head, while you strike at their heel." (Genesis 3:15). Early church fathers, and Christian writers have identified the "woman" in this passage with who?

Without Sin the world would have never known Jesus Christ.

Without the presence of sin there is no need for a redeemer.

A method of biblical interpretation in which persons, events, places, or things in the Old Testament are seen to prefigure ones found in the New Testament.

"Typology, is a method of biblical interpretation”.

A typological reading of the Old Testament means what ?

The Gospels recognize Jesus as the fulfilment of the promise of redemption.

"In terms of Biblical interpretation, when we speak of types and antitypes we are referring to what? "

"Adam and Eve son‘s jealousy, led to the killing of Cain by his brother Abel."

The Genesis accounts detailed in the stories immediately after the fall of Adam and Eve stress all of the following EXCEPT:

In the story of the great flood, God chose Noah because of what reason?

The stories that follow the account of Adam and Eve's sin make clear that God is both just and loving.

Noah was a gentile. God's covenant with him and the gentiles remained valid up to the point when Jesus came.

The tower of Babel was a Ziggurat.

Overall, the Genesis account of the Tower of Babel makes clear:

However, the Lord came down to see the city and the tower the people were building. The Lord said, If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.

"The Lord said, What have you done? Listen! Your brother s blood cries out to me from the ground. Now you are under a curse and driven from the ground, which opened its mouth to receive your brother s blood from your hand."

"I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers."

" Go into the ark, you and your whole family, because I have found you righteous in this generation. Take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate, and one pair of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate, and also seven pairs of every kind of bird, male and female, to keep their various kinds alive throughout the earth. Seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living creature I have made. "

God reached out to his people through covenants.

New Testament covenants foretold of a Old Testament covenant that would be written on the hearts of humankind.

God entrusted the ancient people of Greece with knowledge of his promise as it would be fulfilled in the person of Jesus Christ.

The covenant between God and Noah is the first of the Old Testament covenants.

The covenant between God and Abraham included the promise of all of the following EXCEPT:

In the covenant between God and David it was promised that a future messiah and savior would come from David's dynasty.

All biblical covenants have two sacred parts:

What are some of the key elements of Old Testament Biblical Covenants ?

All of the following are correct about Abraham EXCEPT:

"When God gave Moses the Law on Mount Sinai, all of the chosen people were required to do what?"

"In terms of God's law, what does the decalogue summarize?"

Decalogue means "ten words", and it describes the ten commandments given by God to Moses.

The chosen people of Israel were meant to be a beacon of God's revelation to the whole world by primarily doing what?

Based on your reading, the Law foreshadows the Paschal mystery, pointing forward to Christ Sacrifice.

The key promise of God's covenant with David was that Israel would be a great nation, as numerous as the stars in the sky.

The Law of Moses also encompassed many ceremonial laws of the Old testament that regulated all of the following EXCEPT:

"The last judge and prophet, Samuel, appointed Saul to be the first Israelite king."

David was anointed successor to be King of Israel while Saul still lived.

Why is the reign of Kind David considered the "Golden Period" in Israel's monarchy?

What great sin did king David commit, and for which he later repented and was pardoned by God ?

King Solomon was best known by all because of his:

Which King of Israel supervised the building of the first temple in Jerusalem ?

The temple of Jerusalem was a center for worship and pilgrimage for the chosen people of Israel.

All of the following are a direct consequence of the split of Solomon's kingdom EXCEPT:

How did the Prophets spread the message to the chosen people during the time the kingdoms were split into North and Southern Kingdoms?

The covenant established by God in Jesus Christ to fulfill and perfect the Old Covenant.

" What is another name for the "New Covenant"?

God's chosen people fought attempts by their foreign rulers to Hellenize them - that is, to impose Greek culture on their way of life and religion. What are some of the ways that faithful Jews kept their religion alive?

"The romans imposed their rule on Israel, and appointed Herod the great who was Half-Jewish, to govern Palestine."

"Shortly before Herod's death, Jesus was Born in Nazareth. It is now estimated his birth took place in the year 4BC."