Topic 2- Jewish heritage

• Abraham - Father of Faith

  • C. 1800 BC
  • Ur ( in Modern Iraq )
  • Polytheistic
• Abraham - Father of Faith

  His Call

  • Go to land "I will show you"
  • "I will make of you a great nation"
  • 75 years old
  • Childless till Issac
• Abraham - Father of Faith

  His Faith

  • "Abraham believed God and it was reckoned to him as righteousness"
• Moses - Law and Covenant

  Law of Moses

  • Contained in Torah - 1st five books of Hebrew Scriptures
  • Instruction for rituals of worship
  • Moral norms
  • Moses - lawgiver, not lawmaker
• Moses - Law of Covenant

  Covenant

  • "If you will obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my own possession among all peoples"
• David

  • Born c. 1030 BC
  • Shepherd
  • Musician
  • King
  • Sinner
• Jewish Legacy, Divine Righteousness, Human Sin

  Psalm 51

  • "Against you you only, have I sinned, and done that with is evil in your sight, so that you are justified in your sentence, and blameless in your judgment. "
• Jewish Legacy: God knows us, Psalm 139

  • O Lord, you have searched me and known me!
  • You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar
  • You search out my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways
  • Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O Lord, you know it altogether
• Jewish Legacy - God

  • "God is One" - Monotheism
  • God is sovereign
  • God is good
  • God is transcendent and immanent
• Jewish Legacy - Law and Covenant


  Law

  • Knowable morality
  • Moral responsibility of individual

  Covenant

  • Relational
  • Obedience/love to person, not simply to abstract principles