Topic 3 Study Guide with Answers

Topic 3 Study Guide This study guide is optional. It is not an assignment and cannot be submitted. The purpose of the study guide is to prepare for the topic quiz. The more answers you find in the topic reading, the better you will be prepared. All answers can be found in the topic reading. The quiz will be graded for accuracy, so take time to seek the correct answers for this topic study guide before you attempt the quiz. Once you start the quiz, do not exit the quiz until the entire quiz is completed. Exiting out of the quiz before it is complete may result in a zero grade. Please type your answers below each question. 1. Summarize Isaiah 59:1-2. Sin offends God and it separates us from him, it hides him from us so he will not hear us 2. The textbook and overview make mention of Judges 21:25, "In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did what was right in his own eyes" (ESV). This is a common refrain in Scripture (Deut. 12:8; Prov. 12:15; 26:12). What does this refrain indicate about the spiritual state of the people? Israel needed was a king who would lead them in the right worship of God. 3. What is the prophecy in Genesis 3:15 known as, and what does it mean? God pronounced the earliest prophecy, known as the proto-evangelium or first gospel, that although Satan would strike the seed of the woman (Jesus) on the heel, Jesus would strike Satan on the head—a mortal blow (Gen. 3:15) 4. A main idea, according to the textbook, is that the history of humanity is characterized by a departure from what? The history of humanity is characterized by a departure from wisdom, but God brings hope, deliverance, and redemption. 5. Which book of the Bible begins with the story of Moses? Exodus 6. What kind of prayer is found in Nehemiah 9, and how does it contrast God and the people? Confession, admitting their sins to others 7. Although created in the image of God, humanity became sinful by nature after the fall. How extensively does this original sin or depravity affect us according to Romans 3:10-23? . all humans are sinful by nature 8. How did the fall (sin of Adam and Eve) affect the world according to Genesis 3:16-19? Affected all creation, including the environment. Notice also that the fall introduced pain into the world and into each of our creational purposes—pain in childbirth, pain in marriage, and pain in work (Gen. 3:16–19). 9. What metaphor does the textbook use to describe idolatry? prioritize anything more than God 10. According to the textbook, what was the primary message of the Old Testament prophets? God's people repenting and obeying God. 11. List the names of Israel's first three kings. Saul, David and Solomon 12. After Israel divided into the northern kingdom and the southern kingdom, the southern kingdom of Judah endured much longer but eventually fell to what nation? Babylon 13. According to the textbook, the Wisdom literature (Job through Ecclesiastes) has what central theme? the fear of the Lord 14. According to this topic's assigned reading, "The Mystery of Original Sin: We Don't Know Why God Permitted the Fall, but We Know All Too Well the Evil and Sin That Still Plague Us," by Shuster, what is the problem with the world? I am 15. According to that same Shuster article, why might God want us "to believe, trust, and obey him even when there is not a reason to do so that we can wrap our minds around"? God belongs in the center 2