Catechism – Week 9 – The Law
What is the Purpose of the Law?

Israel was in slavery in Egypt for a long time. God delivered them through Moses who gave them the Law which gave rules to their society. Some of these rules we still keep today, like “you shall not murder” (Exodus 20:13). Others often seem weird to us like “anything in the seas or the streams that does not have fins and scales…you shall not eat” (Leviticus 11:10-11). Please direct students of appropriate age to view this animated explanation:

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Catechism – Week 7 – Sin and Its Effects
What is Sin and What Are its Effects?

Genesis 2:16-17; 3:4-6 – And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, ‘You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day you eat of it you shall surely die’…But the serpent said to the woman, ‘You will not surely die. For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.’ So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate. (ESV)

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