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Module 1 - The Old Covenant
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Module 1/0 - Introduction
Welcome to Modulo 1 of The Essentials which uses the first part of the Bible's Old Testament to reveal who God is, how he made himself
known to humanity, and the result of our inability to keep his standards.
The accounts form the basis from which Christianity grew, and explains the reason why God came to earth himself in the human form of Jesus Christ (To make amends for our disobedience of his Laws, which we call 'sin'). Questions are provided to help us compare the behaviour of those early people with our own behaviour today - are we any better?
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The accounts form the basis from which Christianity grew, and explains the reason why God came to earth himself in the human form of Jesus Christ (To make amends for our disobedience of his Laws, which we call 'sin'). Questions are provided to help us compare the behaviour of those early people with our own behaviour today - are we any better?
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Essentials - Module 1
- 1/0: Introduction (This page)
- 1/1: Who Is God?
- 1/2: Freed To Serve
- 1/3: God Keeps His Promise
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Module 1/1 - Who I God, What's He Like?
Welcome to Modulo 1 of The Essentials which uses the first part of the Bible's Old Testament to reveal who God is, how he made himself known to humanity, and the result of our inability to keep his standards.
The accounts form the basis from which Christianity grew, and explains the reason why God came to earth himself in the human form of Jesus Christ (To make amends for our disobedience of his Laws, which we call 'sin'). Questions are provided to help us compare the behaviour of those early people with our own behaviour today - are we any better?
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The accounts form the basis from which Christianity grew, and explains the reason why God came to earth himself in the human form of Jesus Christ (To make amends for our disobedience of his Laws, which we call 'sin'). Questions are provided to help us compare the behaviour of those early people with our own behaviour today - are we any better?
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- The evidence includes creation, past people's experience, and building our own relationship with God today.
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Module 1/2 - Feed To Serve
How God got those slaves released is explained; how he gave them and us basic Laws for serving him and each other with respect and loving care (Ten Commandments),
and how, as no human can ever keep those Laws well enough, we suffer misfortune as a result.
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- Failure to keep God's Laws causes a separation between him and us, much like a naughty child is separated from their loving parent, but no-one was good enough to put that right.
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Module 1/3 - God Keeps His Promise
God defined a temporary procedure for purification and sacrifice to say sorry for
failing to keep his Laws (sin), and a barrier (a curtain) to separate himself from disobedient people in the Temple, where they were to offer him their respect (worship).
As a result, they suffered misfortune and were kept wondering in the wilderness for 40 years, before God kept his promise to Abraham of a land of their own.
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As a result, they suffered misfortune and were kept wondering in the wilderness for 40 years, before God kept his promise to Abraham of a land of their own.
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- God always keeps his promises, but his timescale is different from ours (he's outside of time as he created it).
- There wasn't a person good enough to make amends for our sin, so what was God to do about it - see Module 2.
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