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Yayi
Oldtestementsurveycopy.docx
Exam instructions
•Pick from the various Themes two items to write on.
•Pick from the People of the Pentateuch two people to write on.
•Pick from the theological connection to Jesus two ideas to write on.
•Write enough to show that you have grasped the ideas in the Theme, the People and the connection. This will probably be about 5 – 10 sentences capturing the who, what, where, and why of each item.
Do 3 pages total
Themes from the Pentateuch
•Creation of the Heavens and Earth – Out of Nothing (ex nihilo) – Follow this theme in birth of Sons
•God Creates what God Elects and Loves – He chooses not from what exists, but what he loves prior to its existence
•The Story of the “Tree of the Knowledge of Good AND Evil” - Possesses a challenge to all form of thinking about Good AND Evil (not just about Evil). God does not ask us to render a separate judgement on what was created after it was called “Good”.
•Various Interruptions in History as a judgement to END and to Start over.
•Human determination of “Value” is not valid.
•Humanities attempt to “Be like God.”
•The Role of Male and Female as Parents of God’s People
•What is not possible “from the human” is possible with God.
•Barren Women – Give Birth
•Sin – What is it?
Themes from the Pentateuch
•Follow Genealogies – Who is important?
•The rise of the People of God – Created as a Promise and Covenant out of God’s Love of Creation
•The oldest shall serve the younger. God breaks with traditions.
•Numerology: 7, 12, 40, 3
•Promises become fulfillments
•God’s Presence with the People Of God
•God reserves the right to Increase Growth with His People
•What’s in a Name, Abram -> Abraham, Israel -> Wrestles with God
•Passover – Remember how God delivered you.
•The Law – the role of Holiness and Obedience
•The function of Tabernacle and it’s New Testament form
People from the Pentateuch
•Adam & Eve
•Children of Adam & Eve
•Noah
•Children of Noah
•Abraham & Sarah
•Children of Abraham and their wives
•Isaac & Ishmael (Rebeckah)
•Jacob & Esau (Rachel)
•Joseph
•Moses - Aaron
•Joshua
Jesus in the Pentateuch
•Jesus Christ and Adam
•Jesus Christ and Abraham
•Jesus Christ and the Creation
•Jesus Christ and the Covenant
•Jesus Christ and the Passover
•Jesus Christ and the Law
•Joshua means Jesus
•New Testament Themes of Old Testament Stories
•Jesus as the sacrificial Lamb (Isaac)
•Jesus in the Wilderness
•Jesus and the Law (Sermon on the Mount)
