The Old Testament
Scripture
How to interpret
Spiritual sense
Literal sense
Abram/Abraham
Abram covenant with God and changes his to Abraham and gets circumcised.
Abraham conceives Ishmael with the maidservant Hagar
Abraham tries again to conceive with Sarah, and Isaac is born.
Abraham tries to conceive an heir with his wife Sarah but fails.
Sarah gets jealous and kicks Hagar and Ishmael out.
Ishmael becomes the patriarch to the Muslims
Isaac goes on to become the patriarch to the Jews and Christians.
The unity of the Whole of Scripture
The living tradition of the whole Church
The analogy of Faith
Creation Accounts
1st Creation Account
2nd Creation Account
God creates the earth in six days with humans on the last day.
God creates Adam on the first day out of dust, and later Eve. They commit the original sin and are expelled from Eden.
The Binding of Isaac
Abraham is told by God to sacrifice Isaac but is stopped by an angel just before he does.
Rosetta Stone/Merneptah Stele
The Rosetta Stone was found by Napoleon in Memphis, Egypt in 1799. It had 3 languages written on it. The first two where ancient Egyptian and the last one was Ancient Greek
Th Merneptah Stele was an Ancient Stone found in 1896 that detailed the conquests of Pharaoh Merneptah. It contains one of the first known uses of the word “Israel.”