1 September 2004

What did the people want to do after the flood?
They want to build a city with a tower that reaches the sky.

Why do you think they wanted to do that?
So that they can make a name for themselves and not be scattered all over the earth.

Why do you think God did not want them to stay in one big city?
Because God doesn't want them to do anything they want so He scattered them all over the earth and they just stopped building the city.

According to the Bible, how did the different languages of the world appear?
It appears because God doesn't want the people to do anything they want, so He mixed up the langauge.

What is the name of the father of Abram?
Abram's father is Terah.

What was the name of his wife?
His wife name is Sarai.

What provlem the Bible says the wife of Abram had?
According to the Bible, Sarai was not able to have children.

Why was the promise that God made to Abram so strange?
It is strange because Sarai wasn't able to have children but God promise that Abram and Sarai will have many descendants.

Why Abram had to move away from Canaan into Egypt?
Abram move to Egypt because there was a famine in Canaan.
　

Why did Abram ask his wife to say she was his sister?
So the Egyptian won't kill him and they will treat him well.

What happened when the king took away the wife of Abram?
The king has terrible diseases.

Can you guess what event was God prophesying in Genesis 15:13?
God was prophesying that his descendants will be strangers in a foreign land.

How did Abram and Sarai try to solve their problem of not having children?
Sarai solve the problem by having Abram to sleep with her slave, Hagar, so that they'll have a child.

What was the name of the son of Agar?
Name of the son of Agar is Ishmael.

  What were the two things God asked Abram to do?
           God asked Abraham to keep the covenant with Him. He asked Abraham and his descendants to circumcise every male.
              God asked him to called his wife Sarah instead of Sarai and to name Sarah's son Isaac.

What was the name of the promised son of Abram?
Isaac

  Why did Sara laugh?
When God promised her that she will have baby, she thought that it is a funny story because she can't enjoy sex anymore moreover she didn't believe in God.

What was the name of the city God told Abraham He will destroy?
Sodom

Why was God going to destroy the city?
Because there's terrible accusations against Sodom and Gomorrah, and their son is very great.

  Who was living in that city?
Lot and his family.

  How did the two strangers (angels) save themselves, Lot, and his family?
First the angels warn Lot then at the dawn the angels warn Lot again, but Lot don't listen. Then God felt pity for Lot and let the angels hold Lot's and his family and bring them to another place
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What instruction the angels gave Lot and his family?
Run for your lives! Don't look back and don't stop in the valley. Run to the hills, so that you won't be killed.

Why did the wife of Lot become a pillar of salt?
Lot's wife didn't obey the Lord and she turned back.