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82 Cards in this Set
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___ with God depends on complete trust in him and following his will for us
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friendship
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_____ is an abbreviation for “Before Christ”.
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BC
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______ is a gift from God that enables us to believe in Him and accept all that He has revealed.
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Faith
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_________ were people who copied books throughout the ages.
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scribes
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__________ are followers of Jesus Christ.
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disciples
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__________ is another word for the Ten Commandments.
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Decalogue
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____________ is the ability and freedom to choose.
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free will
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____________ is the special bread that God uses to feed the Israelites while in the wilderness.
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manna
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_____________ is how the authors of Sacred Scripture were guided by God in their writing.
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Divine Inspiration
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_____________ tells us right from wrong and good from evil.
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conscience
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A ______ is a story that teaches us a lesson or has a message.
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parable
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A _______ is a strong Biblical woman of the Old Testament.
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matriarch
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A ________ is a father, or founder, of a clan, a group of related families.
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patriarch
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A _________ was someone who spoke on behalf of God.
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prophet
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A leader of King of Egypt
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pharaoh
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a sweet bread like food provided by God
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manna
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a thought word or deed or omission against God's law
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sin
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Abraham, Isaac, Joseph and Jacob are considered to the four ___ of the Old Testament
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patriarchs
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All human beings have _________
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human dignity
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An agreement between God and His people is called a ___________
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covenant
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an area in western Palestine including the present day Israel
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Canaan
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an extraordinary event brought about by God
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Miracle
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an invisible spiritual reality that will never die
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soul
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Ancient peoples often worshiped ______ gods.
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many
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Another word for letter is _______
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epistle
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As humans we are given both the authority over what he or she cares for and the responsibility for seeing that it lives and grows
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Stewardship
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At Mass we celebrate the new covenant between God and his people, sealed with the ____ of Jesus.
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blood
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Baptism can undo the effects of _________
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Original sin
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Biblical writers used ___ to tell a story and at the same time give deeper meaning to the story
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symbols
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Cain slew _____, committing murder and letting the worst kind of evil into the world.
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Abel
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caretakers of our planet
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steward
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Christian people consider the Jewish people of the Old Testament our _________________
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ancestors of faith
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Divine Revelation is God making himself ______ to His people, gradually over time.
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known
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every human being has an invisible spirituality that will never die
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soul
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God calls ____ to be responsible for the earth and all living things in it
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each of us
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God making himself known to us
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Divine Revelation
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God promised to send ___ who would restore humanity's friendship with God
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savior
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God told ________ to sacrifice his only son.
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Abraham
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God's plan and protection for all creation
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providence
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guidance given to the writers of the Bible from the Holy Spirit
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Divine Inspiration
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Humans are created in God’s _______
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image
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In the stories of the creation in the Book of Genesis, God's greatest creation was ____
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Humanity
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In the story of the Tower of Babel, the tower symbolizes human __________ to God’s will.
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resistance
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Isaac described a person as the Suffering Servant who would come to free us from ___
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sin
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Joseph and his 11 brothers were sons of ________
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Jacob
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Moses was angry at the Israelites for not keeping their _________ with God.
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covenant
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One of Joseph’s greatest gifts from God was his ability to ________
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interpret dreams
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One way Jacob was able to trick his father into giving him his blessing was by pretending to be Esau.
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Jacob
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Original sin was __________ by the original humans.
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committed
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Psalms are sacred ____ or _____ or poems and also a book in the Old Testament.
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songs or poems
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Sarai or Sarah was the first matriarch of ___________
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Israel
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The _______ is made up of the New and the Old Testament.
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Bible
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The Bible or Scripture is a _______ _______ of God’s revelation and His relationship with His people.
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written record
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The Book of _________ details the beginning of creation.
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Genesis
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The Book of Genesis is the first book of the ___________
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Old Testament
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the books of the life of Jesus and the teachings of the new testament
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gospels
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The celebration that reminds the Jewish people how their first born children were saved is called ____
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Passover
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The central saving event of the Old Testament is the ___________
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Exodus.
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The first book of the bible is called Genesis, this word means ___
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beginning
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The first five books of the Old Testament are called the _______
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Pentateuch
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the first sin committed by the first human
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Original sin
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The Gospels were written by _____________
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Matthew, Mark, Luke & John
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The Israelites conquered the city of _______ by listening to God. They marched around the city for _______ days.
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Jericho seven
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The Israelites were in agreement with Moses for giving them the ________________.
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Ten Commandments
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The Israelites were saved from the last plague by smearing ___ over their doorway
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lamb's blood
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The Jewish Sabbath is celebrated on ________
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Saturdays
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The land of __ was distributed to the 12 tribes of Israel by ____
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casting lots
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the laws of God's covenant given to Moses on Mt. Sinai
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Ten Commandments
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The leader of the Israelites who revealed God’s commands and led the people out of Egypt was _____
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Moses
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The living teaching office of the church
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Magisterium
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The name of the book in the Bible where we find the story of ______ is called Exodus.
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Moses
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the revelation of the good news of Jesus, past and present
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tradition
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the source of all life
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God
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The story of _________ teaches us about the healing power of God’s love.
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Cain and Abel
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The story of creation can be found in the Book of ________
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Genesis
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The story of Moses leading the Israelites out of Egypt can be found in the Book of ________
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Exodus.
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the story of the tower of Babel symbolizes the ___ among different groups of people
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separation
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The three persons in one God
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Blessed Trinity
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The wooden container, in which the Ten Commandments were carried by the Israelites is called the ________
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Ark of the Covenant
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The written record of God's Revelation and his relationship with his people
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Bible
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We learn about God's relationship with the people of Israel in the ____ Testament
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Old
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When famine struck Canaan, the Israelites headed to _____
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Israel
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