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is the first book of the Torah, the first book of the Tanakh and also the first book of the Christian Old Testament. As Jewish tradition considers it to have been written by Moses, it is sometimes also called The First Book of Moses.
• The story of Genesis begins with a deity, called "God" in English versions, creating the world, Adam, Eve, and creatures. It describes their banishment from the Garden of Eden, a story about two brothers, Cain and Abel, and a story about Noah and the great flood. |
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| What lifted Jews out of obscurity? |
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| What distinguishes "the other" of Judaism from that of its neighbors at the time? |
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| not its personalism, but its single, supreme, nature-transcending will...monotheism |
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| In Judaism, if God's will can't be thwarted and his will is good, how do we explain it when things go wrong? |
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fault either lies in the stars or in ourselves. If it lies in ourselves, we are the ones with the power, working with nature and embracing the material aspects of life is important. If it is God's doing, then it is him looking to install richeousness into society.
When the Jews forsake righteousness it was god’s decision to “make this city a curse for all the nations of the earth” |
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Genesis 1-11 • Describes the steady deterioration of the world from its original, pristine goodness
• Disobedience (eating of the forbidden fruit) is followed by murder (Cain and Abel)
• Followed by promiscuity (the sons of god and the daughters of men)
• Followed by incest (the Sons of Noah)
• A flood is needed to flush it all away, God is not inactive
• God calls Abraham to go fourth and establish a new people, he becomes the first Hebrew, the first of the “chosen people” |
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| How do Jews view history? |
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| Everything that happens is at Yahwe's hand, nothing is on accident. We are to take lessons from history |
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| In Judaism, the three categorizations of the prophets are |
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| prophetic guilds, pre-writing prophets, writing prophets. Ethics are addressed by the pre-writing prophets, continued by the writing prophets. Writing prophets challenge social order and corruption, establish justice based on every human being a child of god |
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| What do the Jews look for in a messiah and what are the two types of Messianism |
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| look for political freedom, moral perfection, and earthly bliss for the people of Isreal. The two types are restorative messianism (looking for a recreation of past conditions) and Apocalypticism. |
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| movement for spiritual and political renewal of the Jewish people |
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| a Jewish ritual upon death in the family. Along with other rituals, passover, atonement, tree of life, bar mitzvah, is meant to help us deal with awkward but necessary parts of life. |
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| What is the main revelation God made to the Jews |
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| that he is is powerful, good and loving |
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| Why do the Jews consider themselves the "chosen people" |
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| because they overcame ridiculous odds in establishing themselves, beleived it must have been by the grace of god |
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| What, in terms of "family history," separates the Jews from the Muslims |
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| both descendants of Abraham, only Muslims came from Ishmael (Abraham's son with Hagar) and Jews came from Isaac (Abraham's son with Sarah) |
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| True or false: (Islam) Muhammad is the first authentic prophet and no valid ones will ever come after him |
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| where Muhammad would go for solitude and to reach out for God |
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| the small group of the original Allah believers |
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| an angel tells Muhammad to proclaim the name of God, Muhammad becomes a prophet |
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| (Islam) whats the only miracle that occured in the Prophecy? |
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| the writing of the Koran by Muhammmad, who was practically iiliterate |
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| How is god different in the Koran than in the Bible or Torah |
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God speaks in the first person.
Jewish and Christian doctrine is more distant from God, it looks more at events |
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| what is the real definition of an infidel |
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| True or False, Islam emphasizes consistency in lifestyle among all its members |
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| false, it much more emphasizes Individuality and Freedom |
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| name some things your not supposed to do if your Muslim |
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| Gambling, drinking, being sexually promiscuous, eating pork, thieving, lying |
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| How does the Koran relate to Jesus? |
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| The Koran is the teacher that finished Jesus’ unfinished work |
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| traditions based on what Muhammad did or said on his own initiative |
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| which Sect of Islam is this: Traditionalists, 87 percent of all Muslims, commonly in Middle East, Turkey, Africa, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Indonesia |
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| which Sect of Islam is this: Partisans of Ali, Muhammad’s son-in-law, Cluster in Iran and Iraq |
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| What three routes to God did the Sufi's develop? |
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| How does "ecstasy" bring the Sufis closer to god? |
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| it literally means to stand outside oneself. They try to have dissociated psychological experiences, losing consciousness of the world as it is normally perceived. Transcendence must be made immanent, when they are “drunken” they must understand and apply it “sober” |
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| why is Sufism controversial? |
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| They take a more transcendental role that covers more religions than just Islamic and almost suggest to have authority straight from God and to have learned things directly from him rather than from school, They tightened “there is no god but God” to read “there is nothing but God,” which is kinda dangerous |
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| what's Islam's main problem in current times? |
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| It’s main problem is that it accepts modernization, but not westernization. Also the pressures of nationalism are detrimental. |
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| Whats the main divison of the Australian primal religion? |
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| Main division is between ordinary life and the “mythic world” or “the dreaming” |
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| How doees writing disrupt the virtues of oral tradition? |
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| Reduces the need for memory of important stories, Everyone feeds on a living reservoir of shared knowledge, Lots of rituals are about doing things from memory, writing makes these useless, Written religious doctrine makes it hard to sense the sacred in art and sculpture, Writing has no limits, can make people get lost in the endlessness |
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| how do the primal religions view time? |
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| it is atemporal, we are constantly living in an eternal now, the past refers to a time closer to the source of life, which is what religion is about showing faith and respect to. Animals and elders are considered closer to the source. |
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| is a religious belief that is frequently associated with shamanistic religions. The totem is usually an animal or other naturalistic figure that spiritually represents a group of related people such as a clan. |
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| True or False, primal religions sesek a goal of salvation? |
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| where does the Jesus Fish come from? |
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| In Greek ‘Jesus Christ Son of God Savior’ (take first letters) anagram spells FISH |
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| What drew people to early Christianity? |
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1st equality- among members of church; people have social rank yet they would meet on the same level for religion.
2nd cheerfulness- they had heard the good news ‘Jesus Christ has risen.’
Christianity spread through ‘networking’ (word of mouth) because of Roman persecution. |
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| what was shoking about Jesus' divinity? |
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| not that he was God (that was a fairly common claim in those times) but that he was God and still managed to be so human-like. |
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| what the original Christianity was called |
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| which division of Christianity does not accept "innovations" such as Immaculate Conception, purgatory, the bodily consumption of Mary? |
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| Name three things Eatern Orthodoxy emphasizes more than Roman Catholicism |
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| 1. church members as "members of on another," lacking "holy selfishness" and searching for salvation together. 2. Keeping the laity's administrative power, the patriarch is "fist among equals." 3. Mystical life, theosis. |
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| What is a major reason the Roman Catholic church considers itself a teaching authority? |
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| The bible can be hard to interpret |
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| Under Roman Catholicism, Is the pope infallible about everything? |
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| No, only when he speaks officially about faith or morals |
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| Why is there a need for sacraments? |
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| To help us actually do what we know we ought to do |
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| who said “everyone must do their own believing for they will do their own dying” |
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| Martin Luther of Protestantism |
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| Unless faith is accompanied by God’s love and a return of love for him, it is useless, what sect of the church does this correlate to? |
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| What is the Protestant Principle? |
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• Warns against absolutizing the relative
• God is infinite but we must resist the temptation to consider him something more tangible than he is
• Do not interpret the every word of the bible literally, for the word of God has to come through human hands
• Protests against idolatry
• Must consider the bible to be evolving
• Has about 12 major denominations, hundreds of smaller ones, which they think isn’t a bad thing, just diversity. |
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| whats the basic story of Cain and Abel |
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| Adam and Eve have two sons, Cain and Abel, the first a tiller of the ground, the second a keeper of sheep. Both bring offerings to God, but God accepts only Abel's, "the firstlings of his flock and of their fat portions." Cain murders his brother, and, asked by God what has become of Abel, replies, "Am I my brother's keeper?" God then curses Cain |
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| what are the 4 things the Jewish God is not? |
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Not Prosaic- God is not ordinary or common
Not Chaotic- monotheism God, many Gods means a divided loyalty to the people/followers (each taken care of in terms of devotion and commitment), one God to avoid chaos
Not Amoral- God must support moral behavior, punishes amoral behavior, individually and collectively
Not Hostile- define as being friendly, always in support of the oppressed, orphans, loving kindness and mercy without limit
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| what does Messiah literally mean in Judasim? |
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| a greek word that refers to the 5 (penta) books of the Hebrew Bible |
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| Jewish Morality, what are the 4 things that can most easily get out of hand? |
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o Force- not murder
o Wealth- not steal
o Sex- not commit adultery
o Speech- no bear false witness |
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| what does christos mean in Greek? |
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| simplicity, concentration, sense of what is vital, but at the same time carrying an extravagance, balanced judgement, passion. It also had invitational style, told people how to see things differently rather than what to do or believe. |
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| What three things did god's love make christians feel after the resurrection |
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| free from the fear of death, free from guilt, free from the confines of the ego |
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