The most frequent feedback I have received on my book Knowable Word is the request for an “answer key” to the Your Turn exercises found throughout the book. To date, I have staunchly refused providing one to any inquirer on the ground that the act of providing my own answer key would undermine the entire purpose of helping you gain the confidence you need to study the Bible for yourself and to believe you are approved to do so.
However, I have become persuaded that the climb – from spectator of my ongoing demonstration of the OIA method with Genesis 1 to practitioner of the self-guided study questions for Genesis 2 – is a bit too steep for some who may have never before tried this at home. So I have decided to now let people know how I would answer the questions I pose in those Your Turn exercises.
But I will do so only if you promise not to view those answers as the only “right” answers. And if you don’t look at those answers until you’ve first tried to answer the questions for yourself. I offer them not as an authoritative or impeccable way to study Genesis 2:4-25, but simply as a potential measuring rod by which you can evaluate whether you’re on the right track in practicing the skills laid out in the book.
Therefore, if you would like to read my answers to the Your Turn exercises, you really ought to first try them yourself. Then if you want to see if you’re on the right track, you can visit this page to find the Guidance for Your Turn Exercises. In the future, you can access it from the Resources page. It wasn’t ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator or anything like that, but perhaps it will provide some suitable help and courage.
May every word of God prove true, as he proves to be a shield to those who take refuge in him (Prov 30:5).
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