creation & origins

Question 1

conception

Answer 1

The moment when a baby starts to form in its
mother’s womb

Question 2

image and likeness

Answer 2

Resembling; looking or being like.

Question 3

material things

Answer 3

Things that we gather around us; possessions.

Question 4

Stewardship

Answer 4

The task of looking after/caring for things.

Question 5

Sustainer

Answer 5

God, who keeps creation in existence.

Question 6

Symbol

Answer 6

Something that is used to help people understand
difficult ideas

Question 7

Symbolic

Answer 7

Using a sign or story to explain something difficult.

Question 8

What’s does theological truth mean

Answer 8

Statements about God and his relationship with
humans which cannot be proven scientifically but
which are nonetheless believed to be true.

Question 9

The tempter

Answer 9

The devil or evil one.

Question 10

Vision

Answer 10

A supernatural revelation

Question 11

Genesis

Answer 11

Beginning or origins

Question 12

Ex nihilo

Answer 12

Used to describe the way in which God creates out of nothing

Question 13

Day one

Answer 13

God creates light and separates it from darkness, creating day and night

Question 14

Day two

Answer 14

God divides the waters of the earth by a vault called
heaven, with water above and below.

Question 15

Day three

Answer 15

God brings the water together to let dry land appear, and
upon it he creates vegetation and trees

Question 16

Day four

Answer 16

God creates the sun, moon and stars

Question 17

Day five

Answer 17

God creates sea creatures and birds.

Question 18

Day six

Answer 18

God creates humanity in His image

Question 19

Day seven

Answer 19

God rests and blesses this day as a day of rest.

Question 20

Who named all the animals ?

Answer 20

Adam

Question 21

How was Eve created ?

Answer 21

A rib of Adam’s

Question 22

What was Adam’s and Eve’s task

Answer 22

Of looking after the Garden of Eden

Question 23

What were Adam and Eve told not to do ?

Answer 23

Adam and Eve were told by God not to eat of the Tree of Knowledge
of Good and Evil

Question 24

Why were Adam and Eve banished from the garden

Answer 24

Because of their actions

Question 25

What are some theological truths

Answer 25

God is the Creator of the universe. • Creation is good. • Creation is ordered and deliberate. • Human beings are the high point of creation. • Human beings are made in God’s image and likeness. • Human beings have free will. • Sin has its consequences.

Question 26

Being made in God’s image and likeness means

Answer 26

• Human beings are more important than other parts of creation. • We are like God and so can relate to him. • We have consciousness and self-awareness.

Question 27

What does the Book of Genesis say ?

Answer 27

The Book of Genesis says that human beings have dominion over all animals. This means that humans are stewards who have control over all animals in the world, and the responsibility to look after them

Question 28

A steward of creation

Answer 28

A steward of creation means that you have to look after the environment because we have the power to protect or destroy it

Question 29

How can we be good steward of creation ?

Answer 29

• Recycle • Raise awareness of climate change (or any environmental issue) • Joini the Eco-Group • Save electricity, water, gas etc

Question 30

How can the stories in Genesis be theologically true without being literally true ?

Answer 30

The stories in Genesis can theologically true without being literally true because the meaning of the stories can be true without them being factual, the stories are inspired by God, and they are designed to get a point across that is true

Question 31

How does science help us ?

Answer 31

Science helps us to understand how the universe was created