Importance Of Hebrew Bible Today

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There is multiple reasons why it is important to study the hebrew bible today and there is multiple reasons to suggest that it is still relevant today. One of the reasons that it is important to study the hebrew bible today is to get a grasp of how God hasn 't changed over the years. Another reason to study the hebrew bible today is to see how much the humans have changed through the times and how we have relied/not on God and his everlasting power. There is lots of things that we can pull away from the hebrew bible that relate to the world today. God, a vastly unimaginably big, incomprehensible being of immense power and responsibility. He is here now, he has been here since the beginning and he will be there in the end. Genesis 1:1 “In …show more content…
It really isn 't all that much that we have changed ever since sin entered the world we have been looking to other things besides God to fill the hole in our chests. God then does something and he uses someone, like moses, to bring us out and it then it gets super hard seeming like we are stuck between a rock and a hard place, so we be lame and blame the person who God used in order to fill that sense of authority that we so desperately crave. This is shown best when God uses Moses to be a vessel to go to pharaoh and ask him to LET MY PEOPLE GO. When this finally happens and Pharaoh does let them go they leave before he changes his mind and the Israelites head toward the Sea of Reeds and they make it but then pharaoh army comes behind them, and here is there rock and hard place, and they blame Moses for putting them in the place they are in with saying “didn’t we tell you in Egypt ‘leave us alone; let us serve the Egyptians” when in reality they didn 't really want that they just didn’t trust God to have a plan to get them out (Exodus 14:12a). In the same way today we sometimes don 't trust God to have the plan but he really does. We sometimes think we can do it on our own strength but I have found through running that that is not the case at all we need his strength to get us through the day. Sometimes we even need him to get us up in the morning, so if we don 't trust God just like running a race we won’t make it to the finish line on our own strength. Yes we will stumble and fall but Gods plan is more than enough for us to fit into and ultimately accomplish with his strength. We also need to trust God with our future just as the Israelites did not do we need to learn from them and notice that they are us but that God had a plan for them and it did include the Red Sea because if he took them a different way they may have been tempted to fight. However this

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