David Mapugilo
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David Mapugilo posted an update 3 months ago
NOAH TO ABRAHAM
MODULE 1: SESSION 5: Tale of Two Seeds
We learn that In Genesis 5:1 Cain is introduced as the seed of the woman and later on became the seed of the snake by choice. It is not inevitable that Cain replays his parents’ failure. Each generation faces its own testing. Genesis 4 and 5 gives us two genealogies, first Cain’s and then…
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David Mapugilo posted an update 3 months ago
NOAH TO ABRAHAM
MODULE 1: SESSION 4: Reflecting on Genesis 1-11
As you study the Bible, pay attention to vocabulary and events that match the themes from Genesis 1-11. Sometimes you find that ambiguity is built in earlier patterns so that later patterns can flesh out the portrait. Conclusively, the biblical story is about anticipating the seed…
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NOAH TO ABRAHAM
MODULE 1: SESSION 3: The Design of Genesis 1-11
To understand a story’s meaning, it is crucial to pay attention to its literary design shape. Basically Genesis 1-11 has been designed into carefully crafted themes with repetitions and it forms a syllabus in interpretation of the remaining scenes of the Hebrew Bible. Knowing good and…
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NOAH TO ABRAHAM
MODULE 1: SESSION 2: The Flood Story in the Hebrew Bible
The Hebrew Bible is like a family quilt. It is a collection of narratives and poems from all periods of ancient Israelite history that have been curated and assembled into a literary design shape in order to tell a unified story. Jesus understood the flood story as a…
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NOAH TO ABRAHAM
MODULE 1: Introduction to the Flood Narrative
SESSION 1: How We Read the Flood Story
Here we learn that reading the Hebrew Bible has been too challenging for many. Most of the people tends to bring the modern perspective in analyzing the bible stories which also includes the flood story narrative. It is important to note that…
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That’s interesting and calls for lifetime commitment when dealing with scriptures so we may understand fully the original intent of the author to write.
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HEAVEN AND EARTH
MODULE 7: SESSION 31: The Sabbath with No End
The seventh day is the only day of creation that has no end. This tells us that God’s ideal is for his glorious presence to dwell among humanity forever. Jesus sees himself as inaugurating God’s ultimate Sabbath rest and the super Jubilee year (Isa. 61:1-2). The whole of this…
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Amen! It’s really consoling to know that we have a Sabbath that has no end. We have this Sabbath, not then, but now in Christ! He gives us rest and peace now and forever.
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ADAM TO NOAH
MODULE 6: SESSION 32: View of the Historical Adam
From first decades and centuries there has never been consensus when it comes to View to historicity issues. Literary there has been four historicity issues as follows:-
1. Literary Symbolic View that Adam and Eve are purely literary figures in a divinely-inspired story.
2. First Ancestor View…
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ADAM TO NOAH
MODULE 6: SESSION 31: Discussing Different Ways of Presenting Reality
Generally speaking l had no clue about the whole concept of the imagery view where at least everything that we see in the Hebrew Bible has a direct relationship with Genesis 1 to 11. More than that as we go along now l see that each scripture somehow points back…
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HEAVEN AND EARTH
MODULE 6: SESSION 30: God Rests on the Seventh Day
The Hebrew words “seven” (sheva) and “complete/full” (sava) share the same consonants, linking the number seven to fullness and completion. On the seventh day of creation, God’s rest is described by two terms: shabbat (Gen. 2:2-3), meaning ceasing work, and nuakh (Exod. 20:11),…
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HEAVEN AND EARTH
MODULE 6: SESSION 29: The Image of God in the Storyline of the Bible
Daniel 7 is a meditation on Genesis 1-3, where humans give up their role as embodied divine rulers to an animal. They’d rather trust in themselves than in God. And by doing so, they become like beasts. This is where they are banished from God’s garden and begin…
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That’s right! Whenever we decide to go our own way, eat from the wrong tree, there are consequences. But through Jesus, we have access again to the tree of life.
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