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Tanzania Institute of Education (TIE) Form One

Table of Contents

Abbreviations and Acronyms ..............................................................................vi
Acknowledgements .............................................................................................. vii

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Preface ...................................................................................................................viii
Chapter One: The concept of the Bible and Bible Knowledge..............................1
Meaning of the Bible ..........................................................................................1
The meaning of Bible Knowledge ......................................................................1
The concept of knowledge from the Bible ..........................................................2
Relationship between Bible Knowledge and other subjects ...............................2
Bible Knowledge and Mathematics ....................................................................2
Bible Knowledge and Biology ............................................................................2
Bible Knowledge and History .............................................................................3
Bible Knowledge and Geography .......................................................................3
Bible Knowledge and Civics ..............................................................................3
Bible Knowledge and Languages .......................................................................3
Authorship of the Bible ......................................................................................4
Division of the Bible ...........................................................................................4
Biblical languages ...............................................................................................4
The style of writing in the Bible .........................................................................5
The purpose of writing the Bible ........................................................................5
Importance of studying Bible Knowledge ..........................................................5
The Concept of the Book of Genesis ..................................................................9
The two main parts of the Book of Genesis .......................................................10

Chapter Two: God’s Creation ................................................................................11
Meaning of God’s creation .................................................................................11
Creation accounts ...............................................................................................11
The first creation account ...................................................................................11
Light in the spiritual context ..............................................................................12
The second creation account ..............................................................................13
The concept of mankind being created in God’s image .....................................14
Rivers in the Garden of Eden .............................................................................15
Man in the Garden of Eden ................................................................................16
Common qualities shared by man and woman ..................................................17
God’s attributes in the creation stories ...............................................................17
Creation of the woman .......................................................................................17
Three steps of unifying man and woman in marriage .......................................18

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