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- The Creation Story. The simple truth of the creation story is that God is the author of creation. In Genesis 1 we are presented with the beginning of a divine drama that can only be examined and understood from the standpoint of faith.
- The Garden of Eden. Explore the Garden of Eden, a perfect paradise created by God for his people. Through this story we learn how sin entered the world, creating a barrier between men and God.
- The Fall of Man. The Fall of Man is described in the first book of the Bible, Genesis, and reveals why the world is in such terrible shape today. As we read the story of Adam and Eve, we learn how sin entered the world and how to escape God's coming judgment on evil.
- Noah's Ark and the Flood. Noah was righteous and blameless, but he was not sinless (see Genesis 9:20). Noah pleased God and found favor because he loved and obeyed God with his whole heart.
- Required Education
- Jesus’ Education
- Jesus’ Learning
- Jewish Schools
- Conclusion
Children in Jesus’ day were not much different than they are today. They were required to get an education and of course that included the Scriptures (the Old Testament). It was written of Jesus that “the child grew and became strong, filled with wisdom. And the favor of God was upon him” (Luke 2:40). Once, when Jesus’ parents attended the Feast of...
Jesus was like most Jewish boys. He learned from His parents at home about the Scriptures and Jewish history and culture. All Jewish males were also offered free public education which was instituted for all male students in the first century, BC. As part of their education all of the boys were taught Scripture and law but also included reading, wr...
We know that Jesus knew how to read since He read the Scriptures in the temple (Luke 4:16) and knew how to write (John 6:6, 8). The responsibility for the first level of formal education belonged to the father but in Jesus’ stepfather’s case it may have been His mother since Joseph may have died early. Just as soon as the child was able to speak, h...
Apparently Joshua ben Gamliel instituted rules regulating schools and this was likely very formalized by the time Jesus was a youth as by age six or seven, all Jewish boys were expected to begin their education. Just as in schools today the boys were taught reading by drawing letters on a board. The child’s first reading was normally done in the bo...
We don’t know precisely every subject that Jesus learned in school and at home but we know it must have been the Law, the Torah, Jewish history but as I wrote earlier, it probably contained included reading, writing, history, elementary sciences and mathematics. Jesus must have had education in non-religious areas since he was a carpenter and carpe...
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- The Creation Day by Day. The creation story takes place in Genesis 1:1-2:3. Day 1 - God created light and separated the light from the darkness, calling light "day" and darkness "night."
- A Simple—Not Scientific—Truth. Genesis 1, the opening scene of the biblical drama, introduces us to the two main characters in the Bible: God and man. Author Gene Edwards refers to this drama as "the divine romance."
- It Is Good. God was very pleased with his creation. Six times throughout the process of creating, God stopped, observed his handiwork, and saw that it was good.
- The Trinity in the Creation. In verse 26, God says, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness ..." This is the only instance in the creation account that God uses the plural form to refer to himself.
In watching the potter mould the clay, Jeremiah learned that Judah was in the hands of God just as the clay was in the hands of the potter. Later, the Lord told Jeremiah to destroy one of the potter’s clay jars by smashing it in front of the leaders of Judah.
- Creation (or Before the Flood) Genesis 1:1 says, “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” This is the beginning of the physical universe and so the beginning of history.
- The Flood. God saved Noah and his family (8 people altogether) along with all kinds of land animals and birds through the ark that Noah built at God’s instruction.
- The Scattering. After the flood, Noah’s sons had many children with their wives and their children multiplied until there were many people on the earth again.
- The Patriarchs. The word “patriarch” means a man who rules his family. In a sense, there was a patriarchal age from Adam until Moses, but we are using the term here to refer to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Jacob’s 12 sons.
Book of Ruth: summary. A man named Elimelech, from Bethlehem-Judah, left his hometown when a famine struck. He and his wife Naomi, along with their two sons Mahlon and Chilion, left for Moab. Elimelech died, leaving Naomi with her two sons.
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Isobel Selina Miller Kuhn, born Isobel Selina Miller, aka, " Belle " (December 17, 1901 – March 20, 1957), known as Isobel Kuhn, was a Canadian Christian missionary to the Lisu people of Yunnan Province, China, and northern Thailand. She served with the China Inland Mission, along with her husband, John, as a Bible translator, church planter ...
