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Bible Track(Genesis: In the Beginning, by Kevin Swanson)Lesson Schedule � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 2Supplementary Assignments � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 14

Worldview and Culture Track(Biblical Economics in Comics, by Vic Lockman)Lesson Schedule � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 16Study Questions � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 25Answer Key � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 36

Character Track(Created for Work, by Bob Schultz, or Virtuous, by Nancy Wilson)Lesson Schedule � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 39

8th GradeCore Curriculum Supplement

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Transcript SuggestionsWe recommend assigning this book ½ credit in the category of language arts or Bible.

Bible TrackGenesis: In the Beginning, by Kevin Swanson

Suggested Daily Schedule1st Semester—1st Quarter

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Supplemental AssignmentsParents/teachers may assign these additional assignments to assess the student’s knowledge of Genesis.

Complete the following without reference to the Bible or the notes� (Parents may check answers with Scripture references and page 271 in study guide�) I. Complete the subject for each chapter: (25 points)

Chapter 1 - The __________Chapter 2 - Man _________Chapter 3 - Man’s _________Chapter 4 - Cain’s _________Chapter 5 - Seth’s _________Chapter 6 - Flood __________Chapter 7 - The ___________Chapter 8 - The ___________Chapter 9 - The ___________Chapter 10 - Noah’s ___________Chapter 11 - Shem’s ___________Chapter 12 - Abram ____________Chapter 13 - Lot ____________Chapter 14 - Lot ______________Chapter 15 - Covenant _________________Chapter 16 - Hagar’s ____________Chapter 17 - Covenant __________Chapter 18 - Sarah _____________Chapter 19 - Sodom __________________Chapter 20 - Abraham’s _____________Chapter 21 - Isaac ____________Chapter 22 - Isaac _______________Chapter 23 - Sarah _____________Chapter 24 - Isaac’s _____________Chapter 25 - Abraham’s Line ____________

II. Short Answer: (7 points) 1� What will happen to the head of the serpent, according to the promise in Genesis 3:15 (in God’s words to Adam and Eve after the fall)?

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2� How were the Nephilim formed (according to Gen� 6:1-5)?

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Complete the following without reference to the Bible or the notes� (Parents may check answers with Scripture references and page 271 in study guide�) I. Complete the theme for each chapter (25 points) Chapter 26 - Isaac _____________Chapter 27 - Jacob _____________Chapter 28 - Jacob’s _____________Chapter 29 - Jacob _____________Chapter 30 - Laban _____________Chapter 31 - Jacob _____________Chapter 32 - Jacob _____________Chapter 33 - Jacob _____________Chapter 34 - Jacob’s _____________Chapter 35 - Jacob _____________Chapter 36 - Esau’s _____________Chapter 37 - Joseph _____________Chapter 38 - Judah’s _____________Chapter 39 - Joseph _____________Chapter 40 - Joseph _____________Chapter 41 - Joseph _____________Chapter 42 - Joseph’s _____________Chapter 43 - Joseph’s _____________Chapter 44 - Joseph’s _____________Chapter 45 - Joseph _____________Chapter 46 - Jacob’s _____________Chapter 47 - Jacob’s _____________Chapter 48 - Jacob’s _____________Chapter 49 - Jacob’s _____________Chapter 50 - Jacob’s _____________

II. Short Answer (6 points) 1� For what did Esau forfeit his birthright (according to Gen� 27:1-4)?

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2� What was the place called where Jacob dreamed of the ladder up to heaven? What does this mean? (Reference Gen� 28:16-22�)

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____________________________________________ 6� When Joseph’s brothers meant the selling of their brother Joseph for evil, how did God intend for this to work out? (Reference Genesis 50:20�)

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Worldview and Culture TrackBiblical Economics in Comics, by Vic Lockman


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Lesson 1 - Introduction

1� From what two words does the Greek word “Oikos-nomia” for economics come from:

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3� What is the right role for government?

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Lesson 2 - The Market 1� What is a Market?

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3� What happens to prices when there is an increase in the supply (and many people are trying to sell the same thing)?

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Lesson 3 - Money, A Handy Commodity 1� What are the four requirements for good money (as a means of exchange)?

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Lesson 4 - Capital 1� What do businesses use capital to do?

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2� What do banks charge for lending money?

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Lesson 5 - Stockholders 1� What is the another way to raise capital to increase the size of a business?

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3� What are the profits called that go to the stockholders? ____________________________________________

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Lesson 6 - Profit 1� What principle does Jesus teach in the parable of the Talents (Matt� 13:14-30)?

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2� What does dishonest gain bring (Prov� 15:27)?

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3� When more pottery factories come into the market, what happens to the prices?

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Lesson 7 - International Trade 1� Why would consumers buy products from other countries?

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Lesson 8 - Taxes, The Cost of Government 1� What do biblical passages say about taxing the poor vs� taxing the rich?

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2� Why do men usually desire big, powerful governments to rule over them?

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Lesson 9 - Big Brother 1� What famous man came up with the idea of the graduated income tax, where the poor pay less, and the middle class and rich pay more taxes?

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Lesson 10 - The Central Bank 1� What kind of sin does the graduated income tax encourage among the people?

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2� Who made coins and money before the Central Bank started producing money out of thin air?

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3� What does the Book of Proverbs call unjust, uneven weights and balances when it comes to commodities and trade?

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Lesson 11 - Paper Money 1� What can you get for the paper money, if you were to exchange it at the bank?

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2� When government prints more money and sends it out into the economy, what happens to its value?

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Lesson 12 - Checkbook Money 1� How is checkbook money the government lends out different than paper money?

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2� What happens to the people when they are saddled with more taxes and more debt?

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Lesson 13 - Purchasing Power

1� If you double the money in the system, but the number of products remain the same, what happens to the value of the products?

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Lesson 14 - Hard Money

1� What is hard money?

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2� What are the benefits of hard money?

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Lesson 15 - War against Freedom 1� What do nations like to do with products from other countries? Why?

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2� What is the benefit of allowing free trade?

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Lesson 16 - Immigration 1� What does Leviticus 19:33-34 say about the immigrant who wants to work in a country? ____________________________________________

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Lesson 17 - Cracked Crockery

1� Does theft and destruction help the economy or hurt it? What does the Bible say should happen when somebody destroys an economy? Reference Exodus 22:1-9�

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Lesson 18 - The War the Better 1� What are the drawbacks to war?

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Lesson 19 - Fourth Branch of Government 1� What are the three legitimate branches of government? What is the fourth branch?

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2� What has been the result of the war against poverty conducted by the government?

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3� What should happen to those working in the bureaucracy?

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Lesson 20 - Public Works 1� What are examples of public works?

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2� What are the drawbacks of public works?

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Lesson 21 - Saving Mouse Mobile Industry 1� Why should governments refuse to help companies that are going bankrupt?

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Lesson 22 - Befriending Farmers 1� What are the things governments do to “help” farmers?

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Lesson 23 - The War against the Wheel 1� What should a person do if his job is replaced by a machine or a robot?

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2� Where should the unemployed get support while they are looking for new jobs?

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Lesson 24 - The Blessings of Machinery 1� What three examples of automation produced a blessing for the modern world?

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Lesson 25 - Minimum Wage Laws 1� Who are hurt most by minimum wage laws?

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2� What is the minimum wage in your country/state?

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Lesson 26 - Mice Price Fixing 1� What do some companies do when the government fixes the price of their products?

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2� What is the result of price fixing?

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3� What is the black market?

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Lesson 27 - Rent Control 1� What are the drawbacks to rent control?

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Lesson 28 - Public Housing 1� What are the drawbacks to public housing?

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Lesson 29 - Wages and the Price of Labor

1� Why do employers increase their workers’ pay?

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Lesson 30 - Unions 1� What is the positive element of unions?

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2� What are the negative elements of unions?

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Lesson 31 - Full Employment 1� Give examples of situations where we would not want people actually employed in companies�

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Lesson 32 - Domestic Welfare 1� What are the problems with government-provided welfare for the poor?

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Lesson 33 - Foreign Welfare 1� What are the problems with giving money away to foreign governments?

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Lesson 34 - Monopolies 1� Give examples of monopolies created by governments�

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2� How do governments create these monopolies?

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Lesson 35 - Guidelines to Good Economics 1� What do these bad economic approaches (we have covered so far) fail to take into account?

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Lesson 36 - Triple Split Personality 1� How do producers sin?

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2� How do consumers sin?

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3� How do taxpayers sin?

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4� What can save us from these sinful tendencies?

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Lesson 37 - What Should Government Do? 1� What is the theory that advocates no government?

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2� What are the theories that advocates big governments?

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4� What are these rulers called by God to do?

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5� What does the sword symbolize?

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6� What are the two mistakes of humanistic Law?

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7� What are the similarities and differences between the church and the government?

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Lesson 38 - The Bill of Rights 1� What are the differences between God’s law and man’s laws?

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2� What do the first nine amendment in the bill of rights do to the federal government? What does the tenth amendment establish?

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3� What rights does the first amendment establish?

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4� What right does the second amendment establish?

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5� What rights do the third and fourth amendments establish?

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6� What Bible verses establish the following legal protections?

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Lesson 39 - What is Law? 1� What is law?

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2� Who is the Ultimate Law Giver?

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3� What was English case law based upon?

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4� Why have governments in our Western countries abandoned God’s laws?

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Lesson 40 - Ten Commandments and Case Law

1� Which book of the Bible did Jesus quote most?

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2� What passage does Paul quote when he tells churches to pay their pastors?

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3� What passage tells employers to pay their employees on time (as they agreed to pay them)?

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Lesson 41 - The Uses of the Law 1� What two uses of the law are given in this section?

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2� How much of the Old Testament law is still useful for us today, according to Matthew 5:18?

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Lesson 42 - The Houselaw of the Family 1� How important is the family in human society?

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2� How does the family take dominion?

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3� What is the role of the husband, and wife in the family economy?

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4� What is the role of the children?

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Lesson 43 - The Lawful Money of the United States

1� What was the phrase that was struck from the U�S� Constitution, indicating that the founders did not want the American government printing paper money?

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2� Which article of the Constitution forbids the states from printing money?

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3� Which branch of government may issue gold and silver coin, according to the Constitution of the United States?

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4� What organization or government has been issuing paper money since 1913?

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5� What percentage of the money issued was backed by gold in 1913? In 1945? In 1968?

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Lesson 44 - The Bible and Taxes

1� What two kinds of taxes may be levied against Americans according to the original Constitution? Who should be taxed by the direct form of taxation?

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2� What is an excise tax?

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Lesson 45 - The Land Tax 1� What does Exodus 30:15 say about taxation?

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2� What is the inscription on the American Liberty Bell?

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3� What are the three tithes God ordered in the Old Testament

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Lesson 46 - The Bible and Debt 1� What was the maximum limit (in terms of years) placed on debt for God’s people?

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2� To whom should we NOT charge interest if we lend money?

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3� In the example given of “Checkbook money,” how much money was deposited? How much money was loaned out, based on that deposit?

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Lesson 11� The law of the home (family)2� Government is not a Creator� Government should not

be a Plunderer�3� Government is a Protector� Lesson 21� A market is an exchange of goods or services between

two people�2� The family is working together as a family economy�3� Increase supply cause prices to go down� Lesson 31� The four requirements for a good commodity: Scarce,

divisible, durable, portable�2� Gold is a good example of a form of money� Lesson 41� Businesses use capital to build their businesses, buy

more tools, rent more space, so that they can produce more�

2� Banks charge a fee called “interest” for using money� It is like a rent on the money that will be used�

Lesson 51� They sell stock or ownership in the company� So other

people own part of the business�2� Profit is what is left in the company after paying all the

bills in a given year�3� Dividends�

Lesson 61� The producers are rewarded� The non-producers are

not rewarded�2� Dishonest gain brings trouble�3� The prices go up (and profit goes down) when more

producers jump into the market� Lesson 71� They will buy when the products from other countries

are cheaper (for the same or better quality)�

Lesson 81� The rich and poor should pay the same in taxes�

(Exodus 30:15)2� Because they do not trust in God�

Lesson 91� Karl Marx

Lesson 101� The Sin of Envy2� Local banks and mints made coins out of gold and

silver�3� An Abomination to the Lord�

Lesson 111� Nothing� You cannot get gold or silver from the bank�2� The value of the money goes down, as the

government prints more money� Lesson 121� Checkbook money has no backing in paper money or

gold or silver� Checkbook money is pretend money issued to banks (in order that they might lend it out)�

2� The people are enslaved by more taxes and more debt� Lesson 131� The products are worth half of what they used to be

worth�

Lesson 141� Hard money is gold and silver coin�2� The benefits of hard money is that money becomes

more valuable and this encourages savings� It also binds the hands of tyrants who want to increase their power and wealth�

Lesson 151� Nations like to put taxes or tariffs are products coming

from other countries� They want to “preserve jobs�”2� Benefit of allowing free trade is generally more

prosperity for all countries� Different countries have various products, inventions, and raw materials that other countries need�

Lesson 161� Immigrants should be able to work (trade their services) in a country they are visiting�

Lesson 171� Destruction hurts an economy� Those who do damage

to somebody else’s products should work to repay them (several times over)�

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Lesson 181� War imposes high taxes on the people� War disables

the economy from making useful products (while they make bombs)� Wars kill people and cause immeasurable suffering�

Lesson 191� Judicial, Executive, Legislative branches� The fourth

branch is the Bureaucracy�2� More poverty� 3� They should take useful jobs, and contribute positively

to the economy�

Lesson 201� Bridges, dams, and public buses2� They help select people, and only certain businesses,

while taxing everybody for it�

Lesson 211� It isn’t fair to take money from successful businesses to

help companies stay in businesses that are badly run�

Lesson 221� Government buy and store the crops� Governments

loan them money, so they can store the product until the prices rise� They restrict the size of future crops�

2� The land should revert to more competent farmers�

Lesson 231� He should find a new line of work, a new industry

where new products are made for new demands in the economy�

2� They should seek help from private organizations, churches, and family (and avoid government hand outs)�

Lesson 241� Automated pin-making machines, stocking machines,

and the steam engine�

Lesson 251� Youth, unskilled labor, and minorities�2� Answers may vary�

Lesson 261� They produce inferior (bad) products, or they stop

producing the products altogether�2� Price fixing produces shortages�3� The black market is a market that works outside of

the government-controlled legitimate markets� They sell products in secret, usually at a higher price�

Lesson 271� Landlords will be slower at fixing their properties�

Shortages usually result�

Lesson 281� People who get free housing often destroy the

housing, and the character of these communities degrades quickly�

Lesson 291� Because they don’t want to lose a good employee to

another employer, especially when they are making a good profit themselves�

Lesson 301� Unions can help employers better understand the

value of their employees (what they are worth in the market)� They may help improve worker conditions�

2� Unions can impose too many regulations on the businesses� They can force governments to side with unions� They can coerce union-membership� They can artificially increase wages by strikes�

Lesson 311� Older people are not physically capable of working

full time� People need to take vacations from time to time� Also, some people need to run their own businesses, and family economies�

Lesson 321� This is stealing� It encourages laziness, and creates a

system based on envy and covetousness�

Lesson 331� This is more stealing� It also weakens other nations,

and encourages corruption among their government officials�

Lesson 341� Education (Public Schools), Utilities, Postal Service,

Transportation, Sports, etc�2� By funding them through taxes, by providing special

regulations (that would hurt some from participating), and by prohibiting competition by law�

Lesson 351� Long-run results, secondary consequences, and the

effects on ALL groups�

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Lesson 361� Producers like inflation� To borrow and buy with good

money today, and sell it for cheap money tomorrow2� Consumers like government subsidies so they an buy

things really cheap�3� Taxpayers don’t like to pay taxes, even though that’s

what it takes to pay the subsidies�4� Only Jesus Christ can save us from these sinful

tendencies�

Lesson 371� Anarchy2� Socialism and dictatorships3� Ministers of God4� They are to promote good and punish evil�5� The death penalty�6� Either it is toothless, or it is overkill�7� Similarities: Both are subject to God’s laws�

Differences: The government uses the sword and punishes people� The Church uses the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God�

Lesson 381� God’s laws are authoritative, permanent, and universal�

Man’s laws are limited, temporary, and changing�2� The first nine amendments restrict the powers of the

federal government� The tenth amendment provides all other rights to the states and the people�

3� Freedom of speech, free exercise of religion4� The right to own guns, without government

confiscating them�5� The right to privacy for home, papers, and persons�

Prohibiting unlawful searches and seizures�6� Two or three witnesses - Deut� 19:5, 17:67� No forced self incrimination - Josh� 7:19-268� Speedy trial - Ezra 7:269� Impartial judgment - Deut� 16:19

Lesson 391� An attempt to regulate human behavior and punish

violators when they do wrong� A standard of right and wrong�

2� God3� Biblical morality4� Churches teach antinomianism� They do not teach the

standard of God’s law�

Lesson 401� Deuteronomy2� Deuteronomy 25:43� Deuteronomy 24:15

Lesson 411� The law convicts us of our sin, so we will run to Christ

for forgiveness and cleansing� The law also gives us a rule to obey (as Christians), since we love Jesus and we really want to obey His commandments�

2� Every jot and tittle�

Lesson 421� It is society’s most basic unit�2� We exercise dominion by implementing God’s law

over all areas of life�3� The husband is financially responsible for the family�

The husband is to be a loving leader over his wife and children� The wife is a helper in the dominion task (over the children and property)�

4� The children should receive a Christian education, and become trustees of the family property (and not fritter it all away)�

Lesson 431� The power to “emit bills�”2� Article 1, Section 103� Congress4� The Federal Reserve Bank5� 1913 - 40%, 1945 - 25%, 1968 - 0%

Lesson 441� Direct taxation� Indirect taxation� Direct taxation was

to be collected from the states (not the people)�2� An excise tax is a tax on businesses and sales�

Lesson 451� Exodus 30:15 allows for a head tax, an equal amount

taken from rich and poor alike�2� Leviticus 25:10� “Proclaim liberty throughout all the

land unto the inhabitants thereof�”3� The Levite’s tithe was 10% and went to those who

were teaching God’s Word to the people� The Festival tithe was a rejoicing tithe to be used for celebration and family vacations� The Poor tithe was a 10% tithe given to the poor every third year�

Lesson 461� Six years2� To fellow believers3� $100 was deposited� $400 was loaned out on that

money, with $100 still in reserve�

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