Questions and Answers for Lesson 4

1. We need the grace of God and His offer of redemption because all of us have sinned and fall short of the glory of God? (Romans 3:23).

2. We were created to be an inheritance for Jesus, the Son of God, and His own special people or possession (Psalms 2:8, Titus 2:14, 1 Peter 2:9)

3. Being a disciple means that we will be like the one we follow (Matthew 10:24-25).

4. We are commanded to follow Jesus and obey His commands because we are transformed into the image of the one we behold and follow. (2 Corinthians 3:17-18)

5. FALSE. We can see perfectly the image and glory of God in other people today (Romans 3:23).

6. TRUE. The reason the world is in the state it is today is because God gave mankind the rulership over the earth originally. (Genesis 1:26-28)

7. There only two trees specifically named in the garden of Eden were the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and the tree of life.

8. How did satan convince Eve to eat of the forbidden tree (Genesis 3:1-5)?
satan questioned and caused her to doubt God’s word (Has God indeed said?), satan blatantly contradicted God’s word (You shall not surely die…), satan questioned God’s motives behind the command not to eat (God knows .. you will be like Him)

9. When man chose to obey satan instead of obeying God, whom did they forfeit the dominion of the earth over to? satan, the ruler of this world, the god of this age (John 12:31, John 14:30, John 16:11, 2 Corinthians 4:4, Ephesians 2:2).

10. What was the first question God asked when Adam and Eve sinned? (Genesis 3:9) Where are you?

Why would an omniscient being ask a question? He wanted Adam and Eve to first realize that they had left God and were separated from His fellowship by their disobedience

11. Who took the initiative to make things right when Adam and Eve disobeyed? (Genesis 3:21)  God

12. What were the two responses of Adam and Eve when they disobeyed God? (Genesis 3:7-8) 1) they covered themselves with fig leaves; 2) they were afraid and hid from God

13. What did God promise He would do to the serpent (the devil) for his role in causing Adam and Eve to sin? (Genesis 3:15) the Seed of the Woman would crush the head of the serpent one day, but the serpent would bruise his heel

14. The prohibition against eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil stemmed primarily from voluntary love, which is love based on a choice to trust God versus trusting our own wisdom.