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…
God did not allow his announcement of deliverance to bring a worse life for his people. Moreover, Pharaoh upon hearing the message from the Lord through his servant Moses and Aaron that he should let his people go, became furious, imposing higher punishment on their daily labor. Especially knowing how hard the Israelites had labor for the Egyptians for so many years. Additionally, the Israelites were productive workers. Nevertheless, some of the Israelites did not only blamed God, but also Moses and Aaron for the harsh labor.…
The Use and Abuse of the Chosen: A Comparison of Divinities in the Torah and the Odyssey The Torah and Homer’s Odyssey offer two different lenses through which to understand the varying connotations of the word “use.” For different reasons, the Torah’s God and the Greek gods use and test their chosen people. In the Torah, God’s people are chosen to serve Him; in service to Him, they better their lives.…
(NRSV). In this first verse, the kinetic aspect of Jerusalem is seen with the contrasting imagery of the city before its destruction and afterwards. TWEED In Chapter 1 of Lamentations, the people of Jerusalem do not blame the Babylonians for desecrating Jerusalem and exiling them from their home, instead, they cry that “the LORD is in the right,/for [they] have rebelled against his word” (Lamentations 1:18 NRSV). Many people believed that God had abandoned them as punishment; however, the ties with God have not been severed because this was a manifestation of God’s anger.…
1 “We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment” (Jim Rohn). 2 With the exclusion of discipline, goals and priorities are hard to achieve because things can get chaotic when there is no order.3 Similarly to Lord of the Flies by William Golding, Cherry Creek High School has group leaders or captains who get to do most of the decision making, and an example of this is the Poms team. 4 The people in Poms have to obey the captain just as the choir boys “raised their hands with obedience” to vote Jack Merridew for chief ( 23). 5 It is also the Captain's responsibility to make sure that the group follows orders and cooperates.…
In every American story, there is an individual that seeks the American Dream in some sort of way. Particularly in the 1920s and 30s, there are many who made risky decisions based off of this dream. In the renowned novel The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald portrays these ambitious decisions made through three different types of people. Social status, love, race, and gender play an important role and are the main decision-making factors in this novel. However,as well as there are hopes of pursuing this dream, there are threatening consequences that follow.…
While God may regret some decisions, He always makes a covenant to prevent such an event from happening. As seen with Noah and his family along with every creature that stirs the earth leaves the arc, God says “I will not again damn the soil of humankind’s score. For the devising of the human heart are evil from youth” (Genesis 165).The gods of Gilgamesh have selective love for some individuals like Ninsun and her love for Gilgamesh, her son. Whereas God’s love reaches far and wide in the mercy he shows those who seem unbecoming of his love such as Jacob, with his roguish ways.…
Wise Decisions The human brain makes thousands of decisions from day till night. Thinking twice about the choices we make is a wise decision because our choice can affect the rest of our life forever. In the book “The Kite Runner” by Khaled Hosseini, the main character Amir lives in fancy house with a his best friend Hassan, who is also his servant. Amir and Hassan live their days by doing mischievous things.…
The Israelite rebels in their thirst for power mistrusted and loss confidence in their leaders. They had forgotten the good works of the Lord who had brought them out of Egypt, and despite the many challenges in the wilderness, he had continued to provide for them. As we see in today’s world, it is easy for one to not put their full confidence in leaders as no true…
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.…
Jesus Christ is without a doubt one of the most polarizing figures in history. His life and work have changed the course of the world and the fate of millions. Within his own time, Jesus was a controversial figure in the viewpoint of the Jews and the Romans. To the Jews he was a blasphemous heretic, To the Romans, he was a dangerous inciter of Judaic nationalism and rebellion. In the modern era, Jesus is hailed as the leading figure in Christianity and the role it took in history.…
A king who stayed in his fortress! The roar of the enemy is building to a crescendo. They are so vast that when you look out from the city walls it is difficult to see where they end and the countryside begins. That countryside now battered and bruised by the marching of thousands of feet.…
Despite God’s divine deliverance Israel continues to turn away from him. There are countless examples of the recurring cycle throughout the book of Judges. Each cycle begins with sin and rebellion then God sends an enemy nation to conquer and chastise the people. When the people seek deliverance God raises up a judge to deliver them. The first example of the cycle is how Othniel came to become the first judge.…
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.…