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Lesson OneIntroduction to the Old Testament6 Activities1 Assessment
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Lesson TwoOld Testament: Beginnings Through Settlement5 Activities1 Assessment
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Lesson ThreeOld Testament: Kings Through Exile5 Activities1 Assessment
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Lesson FourIntroduction to the New Testament6 Activities1 Assessment
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Lesson FiveNew Testament: The Gospels and Acts5 Activities1 Assessment
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Lesson SixNew Testament: Letters and Revelation5 Activities1 Assessment
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Course Wrap-UpCourse Completion1 Activity1 Assessment
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Discussion Questions
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What are some reasons one should study the Old Testament?
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To help understand Gods character. Without the OT the NT will not be completely understood
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To properly understand the reasons behind our desperate need for God’s saving grace!
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Because it lays the foundation. It gives us the knowledge we otherwise wouldn’t have.
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One should read the Old Testament because it lays the foundation for the New Testament. It helps gives us the complete story. It tells us why. It also gives us insight to get to know God on a more personal level.
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to know the work of God throughout his redemption story and for us to understand the culture of His people will give us a better understanding of history itself.
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Why would a lack of knowledge of the Old Testament weaken our understanding of the New Testament?
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Well we would’nt completly understand or appreciate its teaching. Also to keep us inform of the Basic Truths, the coming of Jesus the purpose and our factual ,personal and practical knowlege of God.
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Whatever happens in the New Testament is a fruition of what remotely occurs in the Old Testament. Therefore a solid understanding of the New Testament is dependent on a good knowledge of the Old Testament.
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LAck of knowledge of the Old Testament would weaken our understanding of the new Testament as we would not know the foundations of everything. We would not know God’s story, our Story and story of everything that is created. Without Old Testament we cannot understand a New Testament.
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It’s just like a building. Why would you build the top half of the structure before making sure you have a stable foundation on bottom. You have to understand how it all began and why we need Jesus and the importance of living a christian lifestyle and obeying God.
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We can’t understand the full story of why Jesus was born unto this earth and why his death is so important to us all then and today.
