Mythology and the Creation Stories Test

7 Day story: God controls

A theme of the 7 Day Story is God makes order from chaos

Sabbath is

Original Sin is

Day 1: our God takes control of this task that high ranking deities often had

Christians do not have to keep Kosher because

Pope Francis: “Dominion” =

Adam's command to name the animals suggests this relationship

"Made in God's Image" traditional means

The Bible has only one literary form: Non-fiction history

What can demons do?

A demon and an angel are the same species. Demons have bad intentions and angels have good intentions.

Our God will be perceived to reign from "here" because this location's deity was often the main deity

Sacred Tradition has been inspired by

Extra Credit: Many scholars believe this is the older Biblical creation story

Day 2: The ancient reader would be shocked to have learned

Organized Religion comes from this "day"

Kosher means

The Rib that Eve is created from represents

The Creator of Evil

God creating the Sun would have been seen as a criticism of

Demons are limited to what God allows. In the end, God is much more powerful than Satan

Natural Law:

How many creation stories are myths?

Extra Credit: The Temple had images of hundreds of

Day 3: Land ownership theology

Evolution is ok to believe in if we believe that humans are the goal and...

Day 3: This was the national symbol of ancient Israel

Christians see the virtue of freedom as pure freedom. You should do whatever you want to do

Baal, an ancient deity that Israelites often turned to, was a god of

Extra Credit: The 7 Day Story was influenced by this Babylonian myth story

In Adam and Eve, the gender relationship is

Extra credit: Adam and Eve shares similarities with

Mythology as a literary form is focused on

Since the beginning, organized Jewish worship has been

Free Will means you were made

The Jewish calendar is centered around

Day 5:  The Jews saw the world in two phases:

Day 6: This is made in God's Image

Often times, even when being written, mythology was never meant to be taken as scientifically true

What does the Adam and Eve story do uniquely that the 7 Day story does not?