The One and Only God Flashcards
(50 cards)
Between which two countries was the land of deep valleys and rich pastures?
Egypt and Mesopotamia
Between Egypt and Mesopotamia the land was of ________.
Deep valleys and rich pastures.
For thousand of years what did herdsmen do?
For thousands of years, herdsmen tended their flocks.
What did herdsmen plant?
They planted vines and cereals.
What did herdsmen do in the evenings?
In the evenings they sang songs, as country people do.
Who ruled the land between two countries?
Because it lay between those two countries, it would be conquered and ruled by the Egyptians.
Who would invade the land?
The Babylonians would invade.
Why did the Babylonians invade the land?
The Babylonians would invade so that the people who lived there were constantly being driven from one place to another.
What did the herdsmen build themselves?
They built themselves towns and fortresses, to no avail.
Where the herdsmen strong enough to resist the mighty armies of their neighbors.
The herdsmen were still not strong enough to resist the mighty armies of their neighbors.
Why were the herdsmen so special?
They didn’t just become part of history, they made history.
How did the herdsmen create history?
They shaped the course of all history to come.
What was the herdsmen religion?
They shaped the course of all history to come.
Who did the herdsmen pray to?
These herdsmen only prayed to one god, their own special protector and leader.
What did the herdsmen do when they sat beside their campfires in the evenings?
They sang songs about their deeds and their battles and about they sang their gods deeds and his battles.
Who did the herdsmen insist their good was?
The One and Only God, Creator of heaven and earth, sun and moon, land and river, plant and beast, and all of mankind as well.
What did the herdsmen say their God created?
Creator of heaven and earth, sun and moon, land and river, plant and beast, and all of mankind as well.
Why did the herdsmen believe in their God a lot.
It was he who raged furiously against them in the storm, but he never abandoned his people. Not when they were persecuted by the Egyptians, nor when they were carried off by the Babylonians. For that was their faith and their pride: they were his people, and he was their God.
Who were these strange and powerless herdsmen?
They were the Jews.
What were the songs of deeds the Jews used to sing?
The songs of deeds, which were the deeds of their gods, are the Old Testament of the Bible.
Where did Abraham come from?
He came from Ur in the Chaldees.
Where was Ur found?
Ur- that mound of rubble near the Persian Gulf, where they dug up all those ancient things like harps and game-boards and weapons and jewelry.
Did Abraham live in the Ur in his earliest times?
Abraham didn’t live there in the earliest times.
When was Abraham alive?
He was probably alive at the time of Hammurabi.
