- Question 1: What is repeated seven times during the Creation event in Genesis chapter I?
- Answer: That everything created was "good" (vs. 4, 10, 12, 18, 21, 25, 31).
- Question 2: What was the climax of the sacrifice?
- Answer: The time sequence is from evening to morning (repeated six times: vs. 5, 8, 13, 19, 23, 31). This is why the Jewish day begins at sundown.
- Question 3: How many rivers flowed out of Eden?
- Answer: One river that divided to make four streams.
- Question 4: What low-life resident of Eden promised Adam and Eve if they followed his advice they would become like gods themselves?
- Question 5: What did God use to guard the entrance to the Garden of Eden after Adam and Eve were cast out of the Garden?
- Answer: Great winged creatures (Cherubim) and a fiery flashing sword.
- Question 6: What was the name of Adam and Eve's elder son and what was his occupation?
- Answer: His name was Cain, and his occupation was farming.
- Question 7: What was the name of their younger son and what was his occupation?
- Answer: His name was Abel, and he was a shepherd.
- Question 8: What did Abel bring to God that was an acceptable offering?
- Answer: Abel brought the firstborn of his flock and their fat as an altar sacrifice.
- Question 9: 9. Where did Cain reside after he killed his brother and was cast out from God's presence?
- Answer: He settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden.
- Question 10: What was the name of the son Eve bore after Cain was sent into exile?
- Answer: His name was Seth.
- Question 11: Who was the first descendant of Adam and Eve to invoke Yahweh's name in worship?
- Answer: Adam's grandson Enosh.
- Question 12: How old was Adam when he died?
- Answer: Adam was 930 years old when he died.
- Question 13: The oldest recorded age in the Bible is the age of Methuselah son of Enoch. How old was he when he died?
- Answer: He was 969 years.
- Question 14: Enoch is known as Methuselah's father and for what other reasons is he distinguished among the patriarchs before the Flood?
- Answer: Enoch was a righteous man who "walked with God" as Noah did (Gen 6:9) and attained the perfect age of the solar year, 365 years. At the end of his life he was carried off by God, apparently not suffering an earthly death. He is held up in Jewish and Christian traditions as a model of piety (see Sirach 44:16; 49:14 Jude vs. 14-15).
- Question 15: What other Biblical personage was blessed like Enoch, not suffering an earthly death but being directly assumed into heaven?
- Answer: The 9th century BC prophet Elijah (see 2 Kings 2:11ff).
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