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Week 13 - Patriarch Family Tree

To keep our understanding of the Bible in order, it is important that we know the basic chronology of the main Bible figures. This week's study will focus on building a "family tree" of those main figures, patriarchs ("fathers"). See the graph below (shown in full article).

Adam Family Tree -- from kottke.org

Use a concordance to look up the patriarch's in bold.

DISCUSSION TOPICS

  1. Were Adam and Eve really the first created humans?
  2. What other humans were there that might have killed Cain? (Gen 4:14-15)
  3. Where did Cain's wife come from? (Gen 4:17)
  4. Are the long life spans of humans pre-Flood supposed to be taken literally (Gen 5:3-32)
  5. Did all other humans on earth except Noah and his family die in the flood? (Gen 6:17-18, Gen 7:23)
  6. Is the post-Flood longest lifespan of a human now set at 120 years? (Gen 6:3)
  7. What is the significance of the Bible using the phrase; "The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob"? (refs)
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