Grade 1 Lesson 1

Grade 1 Lesson 1: Maker of Heaven and Earth

Learning Outcomes

Salvation

G1.LO18 - Connect the Tree of Life to Holy Qurbana.

Diversity and Inclusion

G1.LO34 - Understand that God made us man and woman, and in His image and likeness.

Christian Ethics

G1.LO42 - Recognize the image and likeness of God in every person.

Textbook Lesson

• Lesson 1 Textbook PDF

Expanding Thoughts on Lesson

• Reflection Questions
  • Why did God plant the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil?, Coptic Orthodox Answers
  • The Cross ~ The Tree of Life, Fr. John Wehling (St. John Orthodox Church
  • Creation and Ascension, Fr. Stephen De Young, (The Whole Counsel of God)
  • The Symbol of Faith: Creation, The Orthodox Faith - Volume 1 (Orthodox Church of America)

Lesson Resources

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Connecting Materials

• Quotes
  • [St Ephrem, regarding the Fall of Man] “had the serpent been rejected, along with the sin, they would have eaten of the Tree of Life, and the Tree of Knowledge would not have been withheld from them any longer; from the one they would have acquired infallible knowledge, and from the other they would have received immortal life. They would have acquired divinity in humanity; and had they thus acquired infallible knowledge and immortal life, they would have done so in this body”