Analyzing Themes And Motifs In The Book 'The Pentateuch'

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The Pentateuch themes and motifs that are listed in our reading this week are all important because each represents God’s will for humanity. However, in the first theme it states “The Lord is Creator of the heavens and earth, including humankind, to whom He has given lordship over the earth both to use and to preserve” would seem to be the most important subject because it represents our beginning and what God has provided for us (Tullock & McEntire, 2012. P.92). In a book that was written about the creation of the heavens and earth states in the closing comments that “Science can neither affirm nor deny that God is Creator, because its methodology is too limited” and that “God is known by means of his self-disclosure in Jesus of Nazareth”

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