CWV-101-Topic 3 Review PDF

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Topic 3 Review This topic review is a tool designed to prepare students for the Topic 3 Quiz. Instructors will grade the topic review for completion. Save the topic review to your computer and submit when complete. When completing this review, answers should be in your own words or quoted with quotation marks and be drawn from one of the course readings (textbook and overview referenced below), or other sources listed in the syllabus. Outside sources, including internet sites, are not acceptable. When quoting and paraphrasing, include all authors' last names for citations that have multiple authors. For quoted citations, be sure to include the page or paragraph number(s). The quiz will be graded for accuracy, so take time to seek the correct answers for this topic review 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. God is not a Genie. He loves to help and save His people! He knows us and hears us every time we call. However, to have alignment with God, you must have obedience to God. Sin is not of God therefore sin get you out of alignment with Him.

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? It indicates the humans are naturally self-serving. They tend to think their own way is right and do what ever make them feel good.

3. What is the prophecy in Genesis 3:15 known as, and what does it mean? The prophecy is that the serpent would strike the offspring of man n the head, but the offspring would strike the enemy’s heel. It was referencing Jesus. It is known as the protoevangelium or, the first gospel (Topic 3 Overview, 2017). It means even when the fall happen God had a plan for reconcile (Christ). That he always gets the victory

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4. A main idea, according to the textbook, is that the history of humanity is characterized by a departure from what? The departure from wisdom (Diffey, 2015).

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? It is a prayer of repentance. It contrasts God a s forever forgiving, merciful and loving, but does show that there are times when His anger rises, and He lets bad things happen to His people due to constant rebellion and disobedience. He always forgives, and past bad acts do not affect previous covenants made or future ones. Despite all the good things that Nehemiah list God has done for His people in the past, the Israelites easily forget God when they get comfortable and do what they want during these times. They even kill prophets when they give them warnings of Gods judgement and upcoming punishments because it was not what they wanted to hear. Even so, God always kept His covenant of unfailing love. 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? It makes us all deserving of punishment. God has made our spirits in His image but are flesh (or minds) are cursed because of the fall. This means that human nature is naturally hostile to God (Romans 8:7, New Living Translation). Without a conscious submission to Christ, people in their natural states of mind are not righteous, don’t seek God or the wisdom that comes from Him, speak badly about others, lie and are filled with corruption (Romans 3:1016).

8. How did the fall (sin of Adam and Eve) affect the world according to Genesis 3:16-19? Women now must endure pain during childbirth. Women desire to control their husbands but cannot. It made it so humans must work to live and introduced death to the world as well.

9. What metaphor does the textbook use to describe idolatry? Idolatry is pretty much cheating. I could not find an exact metaphor in the textbook except when the Israelites were compared to Sodom and Gomorrah. However, the idolatry of the Israelites, is expressed from God’s point of view very well in the book of Hosea with the

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relationship of God and the Israelites being compared to that of Hosea and his wife who was a prostitute. 10. According to the textbook, what was the primary message of the Old Testament prophets? That God’s people have broken their covenant with God and need to repent (or turn) from wickedness. That if there is no true change God will give His judgement. Once that happens there is no hope and no turning back (Diffey, 2015).

11. List the names of Israel’s first three kings. Saul, David, 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? Fear of the Lord is the key to true wisdom (Diffey, 2015).

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? According to this reading, Humans and human nature is what is wrong with the world. Because all people are born sinners, all people will sin which affects others and what happens in this world.

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”? So, He can be the center of our lives. Thinking with the perspective of God keeping certain things off limits makes you feel bound. But “glad obedience” to God is what brings true

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freedom (Shuster, 2013). Trusting that even when it does not make sense God knows better than me and that he has the best possible plan and outcomes for me,

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References Diffey, D. (2015). Departure from wisdom. In Grand Canyon University (Ed.), The beginning of wisdom: An introduction to Christian thought and life (2nd ed.). Available from http://gcumedia.com/digital-resources/grand-canyon-university/2015/the-beginning-ofwisdom_an-introduction-to-christian-thought-and-life_ebook_2e.php Topic 3 Overview. (2017). CWV-101: Christian Worldview. Phoenix, AZ: Grand Canyon University.

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