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. Your sins take you away from God where he can’t hear you. However, God has the ability to hear and save humanity.

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? Their moral compass is weak. Spiritual state of people was lost, they did things out of selfishness for themselves rather than others. They struggled to find God and obey his word. 3. What is the prophecy in Genesis 3:15 known as, and what does it mean? Malice will be put between man and woman and between your offspring(s) and her offspring. Eventually there will be a man that stands up to evil. 4. A main idea, according to the textbook, is that the history of humanity is characterized by a departure from what? Wisdom. 5. Which book of the Bible begins with the story of Moses? Exodus. © 2017. Grand Canyon University. All Rights Reserved.

6. What kind of prayer is found in Nehemiah 9, and how does it contrast God and the people? A prayer of confession of their sins. The Israelites proclaimed God’s miraculous acts and how their ancestors doubted God. He is powerful, loving, and gracious when giving his children the compassion they deserve. They continuously turned their back on God, yet he never abandoned them. 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? God created humanity with sin eventually being introduced into the world. No one looks for God even though they should. There is no difference between anyone, because we all fall short of his image. 8. How did the fall (sin of Adam and Eve) affect the world according to Genesis 3:16-19? Pains in childbearing Desire for husband – he rules over you The ground is cursed, painful to eat from it The ground will produce thorns and thistles, but you will eat plants You will work for your food Returning to dust = death It affected Adam and Eve as well as future generations. 9. What metaphor does the textbook use to describe idolatry? The metaphor the textbook uses to describe idolatry is an unfaithful spouse. Another way to explain is infidelity to God. 10. According to the textbook, what was the primary message of the Old Testament prophets? The primary message of the Old Testament prophets is that we must repent for our sins or God will judge our sins. 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? The kingdom of Judah fell to Babylon. 13. According to the textbook, the Wisdom literature (Job through Ecclesiastes) has what central theme? 2

Fear of the Lord. Individuals continue to sin and go against God, but God is will never turn his back on you. 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? We live in a world that is described in Genesis 3. Mankind is corrupt, selfish, prideful. 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”? Dietrich Bonhoeffer explains that God needs to be at the center of our lives just as the tree of forbidden fruit was in the center of the Garden of Eden. With God being the focal point of our lives, we will be guided to success.

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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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