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Lesson OneWhat Is Geography?3 Activities1 Assessment
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Lesson TwoWhy Is There Geography in My Bible?3 Activities1 Assessment
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Lesson ThreeNow What?3 Activities1 Assessment
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Lesson FourHow Can I Grow My Geographical Literacy?3 Activities1 Assessment
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Lesson FiveThe Fertile Crescent and the Promised Land3 Activities1 Assessment
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Lesson SixKey Geographical Characteristics of the Promised Land3 Activities1 Assessment
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Lesson SevenTraveling the Promised Land3 Activities1 Assessment
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Lesson EightRoutes in and through the Promised Land3 Activities1 Assessment
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Lesson NineWater Realities of the Promised Land3 Activities1 Assessment
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Lesson TenWeather of the Promised Land3 Activities1 Assessment
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Course Wrap-UpCourse Completion1 Activity1 Assessment
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Discussion Questions
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Why do you think geography has been given so little attention by Bible readers?
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It’s because of the conditioning of the mind that Bible is All about God which connotes spiritual things. Means people will read the bible most likely to find spiritual enlightenment.
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The focus on God, without considering the environment of who He spoke to.
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Geography has been given little attention because some Bible readers think of the Bible as archaic, old fashioned. The names of some places have changed and areas rezoned. The tools used in the past might have been upgraded and the forces acting on the physical geography and even human interaction have changed some of the geography. Bible readers might just skip some of those details too depending of the impact on what passage they are reading. However, the Bible readers who study the word in depth have the internet to research the unfamiliar and unknown geography.
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For the most part, the Bible talks about areas that most people have never seen nor never will. We have maps in our Bibles, but that just scratches the surface.
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Geography is given little attention even when it is in our own backyard, much less when it is in a land many have not experienced. Humans also have a tendency to fill in gaps of knowledge with our own experiences so often it does not occur to us to be curious. We have already assumed many facts without realizing we are making assumptions. I believe that we often feel that those details are great for scholars but that there is no real need for a “regular” Believer to explore those things.
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Give an example from the Bible, other than the ones we have used in this lesson, that demonstrates the biblical authors use geography when communicating the thoughts of God to us.
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I am reading through Genesis & Exodus now & it is filled with geography! The lands promised to Abraham & defendants. Travels to find brides for Issac and Jacob! Moses and his story with pharaoh and the Israelites leaving Egypt. So full of geography!
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Psalm 139 depicts perfectly the three categories of Geography Such as Physical, Human and Natural History.
O Lord, you have searched me and known me!
2 You know when I sit down and when I rise up;
you discern my thoughts from afar.
3 You search out my path and my lying down
and are acquainted with all my ways.
4 Even before a word is on my tongue,
behold, O Lord, you know it altogether.
5 You hem me in, behind and before,
and lay your hand upon me.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;
it is high; I cannot attain it.7 Where shall I go from your Spirit?
Or where shall I flee from your presence?
8 If I ascend to heaven, you are there!
If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there!
9 If I take the wings of the morning
and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,
10 even there your hand shall lead me,
and your right hand shall hold me.
11 If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me,
and the light about me be night,”
12 even the darkness is not dark to you;
the night is bright as the day,
for darkness is as light with you.13 For you formed my inward parts;
you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.
14 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.[a]
Wonderful are your works;
my soul knows it very well.
15 My frame was not hidden from you,
when I was being made in secret,
intricately woven in the depths of the earth.
16 Your eyes saw my unformed substance;
in your book were written, every one of them,
the days that were formed for me,
when as yet there was none of them.17 How precious to me are your thoughts, O God!
How vast is the sum of them!
18 If I would count them, they are more than the sand.
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Psalm 121.1 I lift up my eyes to the hills – where does my help come from?
1Kings 18:41 – 46 the promised storm for Elijah
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God reveals His work in the Bible on the stage of geography. A number of people appeared in geography. In Genesis, Abraham was sent to Egypt as Canaan. In the New Testament, we encounter numerous geography in the life of Jesus and the missionary journeys of the apostle Paul.
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Psalm 42:1 As the deer pants for streams of water,
so my soul pants for you, my God.
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Give two examples of physical geography, two examples of human geography, and two examples of natural history associated with the place you live.
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Physical Geography – Hills, swamps
Human Geography – Farming, fruit trees
Natural Geography – Foxes, deer -
We currently live on the beginning northeast edge of Texas Hill Country. Here, the slopes and tree-covered ridges begin to become prominent, and—as with all of central Texas on its east side, with the bow in the coastline and the warming effect of the gulf currents (though relatively far away to our south and east)—we have a much warmer climate than most Texas to our north and west.
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Physical Geography: Blue Ridge Mountains and Kentucky Lake
Human Geography: Hunting and Snow Skiing
Natural History: Honey Bees and Rice farming -
Mountains and Trees
Farming and Year Round Outdoor Recreation
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The Everglades and the Gulf of Mexico
High rise housing and fishing
Sharks and eagles