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Topic 3 Study Guide This study guide is a tool designed to prepare students for the Topic 3 Quiz. Instructors will grade the study guide for completion, not for accuracy. Download the study guide and type in your answers below the questions. Save the study guide to your computer and submit when complete. There is no need to submit the study guide to Turnitin. After submitting the study guide to the instructor, save it for use when taking the Topic 3 Quiz. The quiz will be graded for accuracy, so take time to seek the correct answers for this 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 God can save everyone and hears everyone, our failure separates us from God, and He can't hear us 2. The textbook and lecture 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? The people followed no rules and followed temptation instead. Their morals were not strong. 3. What is the prophecy in Genesis 3:15 known as and what does it mean? Pro-evangelism or first gospel. Although Satan will strike the seed of woman (Jesus) on the heel, he would strike Satan on the head. 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 6. What kind of prayer is found in Nehemiah 9 and how does it contrast God and the people? A prayer of confession is found in Nehemiah 9. The prayer highlights the greatness of God. The acknowledge how powerful, wonderful, loving, and forgiving He is. They also © 2015. Grand Canyon University. All Rights Reserved.

understand that even though he is all of these thing they went against him, but they repent completely and intend to change. 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? The effect is far reaching. No one is righteous, understands, or seeks God. All have turned away, become worthless, no one does good, they spread lies and deceit, ruin marks their way, and there is no fear of God. No one can earn justification, but God can give it. All sin and fall short of the glory of God 8. How did the Fall (sin of Adam and Eve) affect the world according to Genesis 3:16-19? Pain in childbearing, desire for husband and he is your ruler. Cursed is the ground, it will be painful to eat from it. The ground will produce thorns and thistle, but you must eat from it. All return to dust when they die. 9. What metaphor does the textbook use to describe idolatry? Hosea, loves his wife even though she strayed from him. 10. According to the textbook, what was the primary message of the Old Testament prophets? The primary message is to get people to return to God and leave idolatry. 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? God was faithful in his promises and although the people were unfaithful, he did as he said he would. 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 Marguerite Shuster, what is the problem with the world? The world of Genesis 3 is the world we live in. Seemingly insignificant choices, unbelief, and pride are key aspects of the Genesis account, and our ongoing struggle. The problem is ultimately that we pay for the sins of Adam and Eve and our lapse in judgment and own sins. 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?” 2

God belongs in the center of our lives and not doing so may lead us to not obeying, trusting, or believing in Him.

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