- Next Friday is your Unit 1 Test!
Handouts: None given
Reminders:
- Book Report Key Due-Dates: Title & Author (Mon, Sep. 11, written on a paper in class), Pre-Reading Form (Mon, Sep. 25, @ start of class), Book Report/Project (Mon, Nov. 13, report on TurnItIn.com / Art @ start of class)
Instructional Time: Unit 1 - Genesis 1-11
Journal: None given, students studied for & then took our quizzes. Afterwards we worked on the notes below.
Genesis 5-10: The Great Flood: Fill this in on page 2 of your Study Packet
Journal: None given, students studied for & then took our quizzes. Afterwards we worked on the notes below.
Genesis 5-10: The Great Flood: Fill this in on page 2 of your Study Packet
- It's not like the movie!
- Introductory Notes:
- - Genesis 6:1-2) What are the ‘Sons of God’?
- - - Angels? This term sometimes refers to angels, thus some suggest these were 'bad angels' who chose to have a married relationships with people.
- - - - But the Bible never elsewhere shows this as even being possible.
- - - God-Following People? This term sometimes refers to people who follow God.
- - - - This seems like a more likely interpretations.
- - - - Those families (likely Seth's descendants) who use to just follow God began to marry into the families who did not ('daughters of men,' e.g. Cain's descendants).
- - - - Over time this usually leads a family to abandon being faithful to only follow God.
- - - - The Old & New Testament both warn men not to marry women who do not follow God.
- - - - Due to this common theme and problem for people, this is the more likely interpretation.
- - Genesis 6:3) What is that 120 years for?
- - Some say this is a limit to how old people can get, but many people still lived past 120 years after this point!
- - Instead, this is the 'final countdown' of time until God would send the flood.
- Many people came from Adam and Eve.
- - Some were good (e.g. Enoch), but sin finally became so bad that only one good family was left:
- - - “The wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually” (6:5)
- - - Therefore,
- - - - Because of man's evil, God was grieved
- - - - God planned a judgment as the fair consequence to people
- - - But there is a glimmer of hope...
- v8) Noah found favor in the eyes of God
- - He was righteous and blameless.
- - God chose him to build a boat (the 'Ark') to save his family and the animals from a world-wide flood.
- - Noah trusted and obeyed God.
- - - Some think the 120 years God mentioned in 6:3 is the time it took Noah to build this!
- - - Imagine the ridicule and hardships he must have faced from his neighbors...
- The flood came...
- - Noah, his family, and the animals got into the boat and God shut them in
- - - Closing the door as a final sign of His judgment against those who lived in sin
- - For 40 days water fell onto the earth
- - - Water covered the *whole earth*!
- - - Every high mountain was covered by at least 20 feet
- - - The water was on the earth for 150 days
- - Every person and animal not on the Ark was destroyed
- - - But God brought the flood to an end, allowing a new beginning.
- Noah worships God,
- - Noah gives thanks to God by building an alter and offering sacrifices to Him.
- - God uses the rainbow as a sign of His covenant (promise) never to destroy the earth like this again.
- - - A Covenant is. "A promise between two or more that defines their relationship"
- - - He makes this promise while also knowing and noting that we evil from our childhood.
- Some Final Notes: Genesis 9:1-6) God then decides several key things:
- - God Commands that mankind be fruitful, multiply, and fill the earth
- - God puts into animals a fear of people, they would now run from us
- - God allows us to eat meat (without the blood still in it)
- - God institutes the death penalty for killing another person
- - - Cain and Lamech got to keep living after their murders.
- - - - Perhaps God now does this to help keep sin from spreading and becoming as bad as it was
- - - Interestingly, although we are still evil, God here notes that we are still made in His image!
- - - - God never removes this from us! That's grace!
- Genesis 9:20-23: Noah has some problems...
- - Noah plants a vineyard, creates wine, drinks it, becomes drunk, and passes out naked in his tent!
- - His youngest son, Ham, saw him and instead of covering him up he goes outside to his brothers and starts to gossip about it!
- - - His brothers, Shem and Japheth, go into Noah's tent backwards (so they don't see their father naked) with a blanket and cover him up.
- - - Noah ends up cursing Ham's family (through his son Canaan) due to their sinful decision.
- - We know Noah as a righteous man, yet here we see him making a mistake by getting drunk!
- - - What can we learn from this?
- - - - That God can use us no matter what faults we have!
- - - - Even though Noah had a problem like this, God still used him in an amazing way
- - - - Even though we aren't perfect, when we choose to trust and obey God, He can use us in amazing ways, too!
- All of the future people on earth came from Noah and his family
- - Genesis 10 shows 'The Table of Nations’
- - This is a list of how Noah's three sons repopulated the earth after the flood (their families and where they moved)
Genesis 5-10: What does this teach us about God (Theology) and People (Anthropology)
- Fill this out on page 3 of your Study Packet
- God:
- - Has Patience: He will let us continue to disobey Him for a long time
- - Has Judgment: When unrepented sin reaches a certain level
- - Has Grace: He provides salvation for those who follow Him
- - - Noah’s ark symbolize our final, future salvation through Jesus
- - - God offers us a new beginning through this
- We are utterly destroyed by uncontrolled sin
If we had extra time in class, we went over these things:
Points to Ponder of Noah: Concerning the flood...
- There are over 250 flood stories from all parts of the world…
- - Perhaps they all come from an actual event? Perhaps all the stories are related to the fact that all people came from Noah and his kids? Then from them this story was passed down through the generations, although changed in some cultures who did not truly remember what God did through this.
- On the Ark...
- - Did the animals have to be full grown?
- - - Not at all! They could have been very young, which means they were smaller and ate less! Two things important for the Ark
- - Could they have hibernated?
- - - Absolutely! This would mean they ate even less
- - Were every type of an animal (e.g. every type of ‘dog’) needed?
- - - Nope! Only the 'type' of dog (or other animal) that all the others could come from, the 'master breed,' so to speak.
- Did Noah have to get every animal on his own?
- - - Nope, God sent the animals to Noah (Gen. 6:20)
- How did animals get on every continent if they all started again in just one spot?
- - A few ways to answer this...
- - - Perhaps God simply put them there when He spread out people after the Tower of Babel
- - - Perhaps the continents were not yet fully divided when the flood ended. See Genesis 10:25, in the days of Peleg, the earth was divided--perhaps this refers to the moving of the continents? (see the Pangaea Theory in modern science)
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