[CS-FSLUG] TD: CS-BibleStudy: Hosea Chapter 1

[Timothy Butler]

Hi everyone,
	Earlier this year, I was encouraged by Brian Derr and Kelly Armstrong  
to bring back the weekly CS-BibleStudy. At the time, they were kind  
enough to offer to help, but things happened and I never got around to  
getting the ball rolling. It is time to just get the ball rolling and  
see where we go. This time around, we are starting in the book of  
Hosea. If anyone would like to help by preparing questions one week,  
please e-mail me off list and we can decide how to get that arranged.

	Answer the questions below and perhaps consider adding your own  
questions for the discussion.

Here's a link to BibleGateway for chapter 1:

http://www.biblegateway.net/cgi-bin/bible? 
passage=HOSEA+1&language=english&version=NIV

Icebreaker: Have you ever been called by God to do something difficult  
and perhaps didn't make the least bit of sense at the time? How did you  
respond?

Study Questions:
1.) Why do you suppose that God wanted Hosea to live out, symbolically,  
the problems of Israel by marrying an adulterous wife and having  
unfaithful children (other prophets didn't have to do this!)?

2.) God says the people aren't His people but then, in verse 10  
indicates that will change and the people will become known as "Sons of  
the living God." What do you think this return to a relationship to God  
will be?

3.) Judah and Israel/Samara never reunified.  Yet this passage promises  
reunification. Do you think this refers symbolically to the removal of  
separation through faith in Jesus in the future (for them) or perhaps  
something still in the future -- perhaps an end times reunification?

4.) Before starting study in Hosea, do you have any preexisting  
feelings toward this book of the Bible?


Have at it!

	-Tim

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