Hedges and Sacco begin the chapter, Days of Destruction, with Larry Gibson who explains his childhood living on the mountain. He describes what his life was like then and now, showing that the land is barely recognizable. The land that his family once owned, went from 500 acres to 50. I feel like this relates to many properties in Michigan today. Trees, houses, and land are often torn apart to make room for something new, similar to what Gibson describes happened to the cemetery adjacent to his house.…
In the book of Lamentations, Jerusalem was a beautiful city. The Temple of God was in the city. The Babylonian soldiers destroyed the buildings and killed the people in Jerusalem. These Babylonian soldiers did a lot of evil things. The soldiers led the young men away to Babylon and raped the young women.…
Since the Fall, mankind has struggled with countless character problems, including the inability to handle anger. Everyday life presents us with difficult and frustrating situations. As free-willed individuals, we have the choice to either respond in a calm, collected manner, or to lash out impulsively. Although blind rage may seem preferable in the moment, it almost always yields negative results. After all, the ability to reason and reflect separates humanity from wild animals.…
God makes a promise or covenant to his people, the people rebel and defy God, God punishes them with death and separation, then God brings allows for reconciliation and give his people another…
“I starting up, the light did spy, And to my God, my heart did cry to strengthen in my distress” (Bradstreet 69). Bradstreet was born into a Puritan family in 1612 similar to Edwards and died in 1672. Bradstreet’s poem was published in 1650 intentionally to tell her story on her burning house. On the other hand, Jonathan Edwards was a religious Puritan who told his stories to fellow Puritans to make them understand that they have to live by Puritan laws or risk their eternal souls. His sermon was written on July 8, 1741 in Enfield, Connecticut to the sinners to recognize that they will be judged by God and that his judgement will be more fearful than they can comprehend.…
Throughout many artistic works we see the good suffer, and in the Iliad by Homer and The Book of Job in the Bible, the suffering of the good is a prominent theme. These literary works are similar in the way they present the suffering of the good, but they are also very different in how the good cope with their troubles. The Iliad uses divine intervention and fate to exemplify how the good suffer, whereas The Book of Job uses divine influence and God’s will to illustrate suffering. Similarly, the Greek gods (the Iliad) and God (The Book of Job) have different conducts in helping the good cope with their distress. Although both the Iliad and The Book of Job explore the same idea of the suffering of the good, those who suffer in these stories…
Evaluate God 's mercy in relation to his response to humanity using the events and characters of Genesis and Jonah. To evaluate character and events of Genesis and Jonah pertaining God’s mercy on relations on his response to humanity for his people. These two books of Genesis and Jonah gives us examples how humanity change when Adam and Eve cast the first Sin in Genesis 3, however in Genesis 2 God gave humanity a chance by providing them everything they needed in the Garden of Eden. Jonah disobeyed God until he realize God has a greater purpose for him. First, I will explain why Adam and Eve is an important character about humanity and God’s Mercy in Genesis.…
The topic of evil and why God so calls "allows" evil to happen has become a cliché that non-believers have used as a method to shame believer for their beliefs. The author in prompt seven makes the argument that if God was this so call good God why did he allow an event like the holocaust to occur. The author also implies that the position that God allows things to happen because of free will should be put aside when it is not realistic to believe in the real world where people are dying. The author also believes that free will is not more important than the life of people. In addition to this the author argues that the notion of God allowing such evil event to happen is "silliness", the basic point of her argument is that free will is not…
The activity of Yahweh the Divine Warrior is dominant throughout much of the OT. This theme stands in glaring contrast to the theme of Yahweh the God of Shalom. Nevertheless, the image of God as one who participates in violent warfare against enemies of God is one of the most predominant of all biblical themes. Furthermore, noted by biblical scholars, the divine warrior theme is the foundation for Biblical unity, for it is a representation that directed not only writers of the Torah but also the leaders of the formative church who wrote later works in the New Testament. The vital component to Holy War is that Yahweh, the Celestial Soldier, led Israel into the combat and won the victory for them.…
Through Scriptures, Babylon is represented as a city of rebellion against God, a center of civilization built on selfishness, pride, and other sinful agendas. Regardless, God calls his people not to attack this city or withdraw from it, but to love it, pray for it, and take care about its wellbeing. It shows that the relationship between the people of God and the city of man becomes a key aspect of God’s plan to redeem the world (2012, 143). We can see that in both of these accounts, the story of Nineveh and Babylonian exile, God does not treat these cities as irredeemable places. In addition to compassionate attitude toward them, he develops a strategic plan that involves his call upon the people of God, the call to engage, to establish relationship, and to become conduits of God’s merciful love toward humanity.…
Zeus explains to Athena that Poseidon despises Odysseus because of the role Odysseus played in the plot to exterminate the eye of the Cyclops Polyphemus. The reason Poseidon is so infuriated by this is because Polyphemus is Poseidon’s son. Therefore, Poseidon maintains a hatred of Odysseus and “will not let him end his exile”(200) Homer indicates that although Odysseus encounters a great deal of misfortune in his journey, the major misfortune was the disapproval of Poseidon and Zeus. The combined interference of Poseidon and Calypso prevented him from continuing his journey…
"Conflict Resolution For Holy Beings" by Joy Harjo is a book with collections of verses that are about the inequality of Native Americans displaced within its historical events mixed with some Indian mythology that informs on the current meaning of "Americans" which the name represents the settlers from 17th centuries that occupied the Native American lands and displaced its peoples true "American" name that the Natives struggle in an eternal despair. The theme of this book is displacement of poets speculating on the origins of human destruction that has mixed emotional values of justice and equality with eternal consequences. Harjos understanding of displacement as an emotional figurative are conflicted with my meaning of displacement with…
The Bible and the 500 Years of Conquest, written by Elsa Tamez, articulates the varying treatments of the Bible in the past centuries. The five treatments include use of the Bible for conquest, rejection of the Bible, the "popular" reading of the bible and Indigenous hermeneutics. In this first treatment, the Biblical narrative from Exodus is used to justify the conquest and genocide of non-Christians throughout history. Stating that just as the Israelites took the land of Canaan, so should the conquerors take other land, said to be theirs by the Pope. The second treatment is rejection, tells the response of the Indigenous people of South America.…
The world population becomes so disobedient and wicked that Noah becomes the only obedient man on earth. By flooding the earth, God shows that he cannot tolerate evil and disobedient actions. Yet, by saving Noah and his family, God show mercy on humanity by allowing it to continue to flourish through Noah and his…
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.…