This book is a collection of essays, and I found the sub-title interesting. Some of the essays spoke to me and my use of the Old Testament in worship. It was not ground breaking to me, but the notion that the book of Job “functions as a kind of reality check for us as we contemplate what it meant to worship the One who made heaven and earth” is indeed humbling considering our conceptions of God. The power of Job for use in worship is the illustration of God’s extravagant freedom and our inherent limitation” (2396-2399).” This is something that our era of vastly increasing uses of technology seems to forget.
Another note of human limitation drawn from the Old Testament was “shame.” “Shame is the recognition of human limitation, and the other hand, shame or humility derives from the recognition of divine holiness. It is not the feeling that ‘I am so bad,’ as much as it is the knowledge that ‘God is …show more content…
God was forced to leave the city once it had become utterly defiled. The direct and consistent result of sin is removal from God's presence. To be sure, within the book the build-up of defilement finally forced God's abandonment of the temple itself. The divine resident must leave, but this defilement attaches itself to the violator, not to God. So although the movement in the book depicts God's abandonment of Israel, the ritual theology of the book exposes the reality that it is the sinners who have removed themselves from God (1666-1668).” Ezekiel notes our misuse of freedom and the neglect of our responsibility to God and others with whom we are in society. Many of the minor prophets, such as Amos, point in this direction also. God's presence makes demands on us, and requires from us a new way of living. The ripples of holiness extending out from God's presence change all of reality, affect all of our "space"
Another note of human limitation drawn from the Old Testament was “shame.” “Shame is the recognition of human limitation, and the other hand, shame or humility derives from the recognition of divine holiness. It is not the feeling that ‘I am so bad,’ as much as it is the knowledge that ‘God is …show more content…
God was forced to leave the city once it had become utterly defiled. The direct and consistent result of sin is removal from God's presence. To be sure, within the book the build-up of defilement finally forced God's abandonment of the temple itself. The divine resident must leave, but this defilement attaches itself to the violator, not to God. So although the movement in the book depicts God's abandonment of Israel, the ritual theology of the book exposes the reality that it is the sinners who have removed themselves from God (1666-1668).” Ezekiel notes our misuse of freedom and the neglect of our responsibility to God and others with whom we are in society. Many of the minor prophets, such as Amos, point in this direction also. God's presence makes demands on us, and requires from us a new way of living. The ripples of holiness extending out from God's presence change all of reality, affect all of our "space"