4. Tick the box! In each of the following, say whether it is true or false.
True False
1. If human beings disappeared off the face of the Earth, within seven years all of the 600 million automobiles in the world would have rusted into barely recognisable heaps of metal.
2. Within 100 years all metal bridges and towers would have collapsed.
3. Within 500 years all residential neighbourhoods would have become rain- forests.
4. Within 1,000 years there would be hardly any trace left to show that human beings had ever existed. All our great cities and all their contents would have turned to dust and crumbled away.
5. Asking questions is an essential part of being human. Without them we cannot learn and grow as individuals.
6. Human beings are not the only creatures on Earth that can think about life and ask questions about it.
7. Usually, as we grow older, our experiences of love and hatred, health and illness, gain and loss, birth and death prompt us to ask questions about the meaning of life.
8. As an infant, Moses escaped death because his mother placed him in a wicker basket and hid him among the thick reeds along the banks of the river Tiber.
9. Moses fled from Egypt to Midian after deliberately killing a man.
10. God appeared to Moses in the form of a bush that was being burned up by fire.
11. God told Moses that he was sending him back to Egypt to free the Jews from slavery.
12. Moses refused to return to Egypt as God had asked.
5. Think about it!
(a) What kind of experiences can lead us to ask questions about the meaning of our lives? (b) Why do you think these experiences can have such an effect on us? (c) Suppose someone were to say ‘All religions are the same!’ Would you agree or disagree with this statement? Explain your answer.
(d) What insights did Moses receive about God through his experience at the Burning Bush?
