Salvation History
Focus questions 86-101
What are some features of Abram’s home town?
Abram’s family was most likely involved in what kind of work?
Who was Lot?
How old was Abram when his story began in the Book of Genesis?
What did God ask Abram to do?
According to the Catechism, no. 2570, how did Abraham express his prayer?
Why would God’s promise to Abram to give him a multitude of descendants have been hard to believe?
What did the idea of many descendants mean in the time of Abram?
What was Abram’s complaint to God?
What did God promise Abram with respect to his heir and the number of his descendants?
What was Abram’s response to God’s promise?
How did God make his promise to Abram?
What did Sarai suggest Abraham do to ensure an heir?
What made God’s next reminder of his promise of an heir seem even more impossible?
What was the external sign of the covenant God made with Abraham?
What does the new name God gave to Sarai mean?
Why did God choose the name “Isaac” for Abraham and Sarah’s child?
Though the promise seemed impossible, how did Abraham nevertheless behave?
Why did God decide to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah?
How did Abraham bargain with God?
What did the people of Sodom demand of Lot?
What did people consider the worst sin of Lot’s time?
Why was Lot willing to offer his daughters to the rapists?
What happened to Lot’s wife and sons-in-law?
What was Lot’s daughters’ wicked scheme?
What became of the children born from the incestuous relationships?
What does the Catechism, no. 2388, say is wrong about incest?
What sacrifice did God ask of Abraham?
Why was this a difficult task for Abraham?
Did Abraham’s lie to Isaac, “God will provide himself the lamb for the burnt offering,” come true? How?
What is an ancillary lesson of the sacrifice of Isaac to the people of Israel?
Were the promises God made to Abraham fulfilled immediately?
Through whom was the ultimate fulfillment of the promise that all nations of the earth would be blessed
through Abraham?