Divine Rev Ch. 3 & 4 Intro to OT & Pentateuch

Match the source with the characteristic of literal sense of the creation stories: The gods created "savage" man.

587 BC, remaining Israelites taken into captivity by the Babylonians in a foreign land, there they wrote "The Six Days..

The dogma that God's eternal Son assumed a human nature & became man in order to save us from our sins.

"P Source" 6th century BC, authors of "The Six Days of Creation and the Sabbath."

Match the source with the characteristic of literal sense: God is seen as anthropomorphic (human) terms.

To give human characteristics to a god in a story.

Match the source with the characteristic of literal sense of the creation stories: God has cosmic power.

Jesus presence on Earth is foreshadowed in both biblical accounts of creation.

First five books of the Tanakh/ The "Law" and primary scriptural authority for Jews.

Match sense to this religious Truth found in Creation stories: Follow God's commands to keep creation & ourselves pure.

Babylonian creation myth.

Match the sense to this religious Truth found in the Creation stories: God's light will direct us to Heaven.

Covenant

Match the source of literal sense of the creation stories: God created the earth & heavens, man, animals, & then woman.

The name Jews call their Hebrew Scriptures/ T=Torah N=Nevi'im K=Ketuvim

Name for God meaning: the one God who possesses all divine traits.

"J Source", 10th century BC. Israel began putting their stories in written form. "Aother Account of Creation" came 1st

Stories of Creation in the book of Genesis can complement scientific theories about the origin of the Universe & Life.

The biblical accounts of creation are "mystical and poetic compressions" of

1st 5 books of the Bible in the Old Testament G-E-L-N-D.