Genesis Quiz Study Guide

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What vocation, or calling, do the Old Testament patriarchs and holy women illustrate?

Serve as spiritual mothers and fathers

_______, ___________,and ____________ are known as the patriarchs

Abraham, Issac, and Jacob

What are three biblical accounts in Genesis that show the lasting influence of Original Sin?

Cain and Abel, Noah and the flood,Tower of Babel

This vocation continued in the Christian Era through Christ's call of the _____ and the work of the early _____.

1. 12 apostles 2. Church fathers

The book of Genesis repeatedly shows us shows us how God transcends the ___________ of humanity so that all may know his promise of ___________ and ___________.

1. Brokenness 2. reconciliation 3. peace

For Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, one of the great models of _______ in God is Abraham, who entered into a _______ relationship with God.

1. Faith 2. Covenant

Through Abraham, God chose to make his covenant, by which he formed his _______________________. Through this covenant, God later revealed his _______________________ to his people through _______________________.

1. People 2. law 3. Moses

_____________ redeemed humanity and broke the bonds of Original Sin.

Jesus Christ

The leaders in the the Old and New______ were channels for God's plan of _______ goodness.

1. covenants 2. loving

Because of Abraham's _____________ and complete __________ in God, he and Sarah were blessed with countless _____________

1. faith 2. trust 3. descendant

Through Original Sin the first humans and all their descendants lost their original _______________________ and became subject to _______________________.

1. goodness 2. death

The details in the Creation accounts symbolize that _____________ are called in a unqiue way to participate in God's _____________ work.

1. human beings 2. creative

The accounts of Creation, together with the accounts of Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Noah and the flood, Tower of Babel, are called the _______________. The term refers to the time before the invention of _____________.

1. primeval history 2. Writing

What do we call Jacob's descendants, and why?

The Israelites. They are the descendants of Jacob.

In Genesis, what does the first account of Creation describe? What does the second account describe?

The first account is the orderly description of God's creative activity, structured as a seven-day week. The second account is where we learn about the creation of man, Adam. and the first woman, Eve.


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