Questions on Reading

Questions to Discuss:

• What is a covenant?
• When God says "I set my bow in the clouds" what does it mean?
• Fr Shamon mentions 1 Peter 3:20-21. Read the text in context:

For Christ died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive by the Spirit,through whom also he went and preached to the spirits in prison who disobeyed long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. In it only a few people, eight in all, were saved through water, and this water symbolizes baptism that now saves you also—not the removal of dirt from the body but the pledge of a good conscience toward God. It saves you by the resurrection of Jesus Christ, who has gone into heaven and is at God's right hand—with angels, authorities and powers in submission to him.

• Fr Shamon mentions the Table of the Nations in Genesis 10-11. Look at it here-- genealogies were important to the Israelites, as already mentioned. This one, he says, is meant to teach the basic family unity of all the nations.
• What do the stories in Genesis 4-11 show as a whole?

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