Old Testament Essay

Many Christians today struggle to define the right relationship with God. We often do not believe that we need to follow God’s instructions or the words from the chose prophets in the Old Testaments. Old testaments were written many centuries ago. Christians nowadays often conclude that the instructions and words of God from the Old testaments are too old to be reflected with their daily Christian living in 21st centuries. Instead of ignoring the importance of Old testaments, we need to reinterpret in modern words and absorb the teachings from the Old Testaments. There are so many stories and incidents of Christian history in Old Testaments telling us how to do keep the right relationship with the only God and how to get involved in God’s history. The Deluge and the renewal of the covenant between Yahweh and Israel during Old Testament era, show how to keep the relationships and the unbreakable connections between God, People and Land. As being Christians, we all have heard and learned about the Great Deluge that happened in the early Old Testaments era. The flood was a massive slaughter caused by Yahweh’s indignation. The …show more content…
Even though, the covenant was given hundreds years ago, the covenant was meant to apply to the rest of nations that have formed after Israel. When we are looking at Wright’s ethical-moral triangle, we can find out that we are not sharing the triangle with more than three angles. Serving other gods than Him will make the balanced relationship to be a maniac quadrangle or even decagon and more. Our Father “is a jealous God; he will not forgive [our] transgressions or [our] sins” (Joshua 24:19). Joshua and Israelites knew that the “LORD is God in heaven above and on the earth below. There is no other” (Deuteronomy 4:35). He is the ultimate and he will dislike if we share our faith with other so-called gods. What we get blessed depends on whom we worship. Our faith is tied to the Holy One of