In the bible there are a number of different themes to try and help us understand more of what God is trying to tell us. In the paper I am going into depth for three of them. The three are, The teaching with pictures, stories, and emotional appeals that succeeds with at least some listeners, The choosing and training of key followers as disciples who will carry on the work after the leader is gone, The importance of a sacrifice whereby the action of one satisfies the debt of another. The first one I chose was the teaching with pictures, stories, and emotional appeals that succeeds with at least some listeners. In Isaiah 53:5 it says, “He was wounded for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities…” Isaiah gives a vivid description
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He told the parable about how an owner of a vineyard sent servants to collect some fruit two times. And both times the tenants of the vineyards killed the servants the owner sent. He sent his son thinking the tenants would respect his son, but they killed him too. Jesus told this story to his listeners to show what would happen to him in his future. You would think people would respect the Son of God but they don’t.
I used this theme first because it is important for us to understand but it is not most important. This theme shows Jesus as a teacher to people and the fact that there is teaching in the Old Testament shows the importance of teaching to God. That we should go out and teach to people in our life.
The Second theme is the choosing and training of key followers as disciples who will carry on the work after the leader is gone. In 2 Kings 2 God told Elijah to go to Elisha to prepare Elisha in the way of a prophet. Elijah would be going to heaven soon so he would need someone to replace him in his ministry. Elisha followed and watched so he could know exactly what Elijah was doing in his ministry. In 2 Kings 2:9 Elisha prays that god will let a double portion of his spirit upon Elisha. There is one indication of God’s answer to Elisha’s prayer is that while Elijah performed seven recorded miracles, fourteen were recorded through
He told the parable about how an owner of a vineyard sent servants to collect some fruit two times. And both times the tenants of the vineyards killed the servants the owner sent. He sent his son thinking the tenants would respect his son, but they killed him too. Jesus told this story to his listeners to show what would happen to him in his future. You would think people would respect the Son of God but they don’t.
I used this theme first because it is important for us to understand but it is not most important. This theme shows Jesus as a teacher to people and the fact that there is teaching in the Old Testament shows the importance of teaching to God. That we should go out and teach to people in our life.
The Second theme is the choosing and training of key followers as disciples who will carry on the work after the leader is gone. In 2 Kings 2 God told Elijah to go to Elisha to prepare Elisha in the way of a prophet. Elijah would be going to heaven soon so he would need someone to replace him in his ministry. Elisha followed and watched so he could know exactly what Elijah was doing in his ministry. In 2 Kings 2:9 Elisha prays that god will let a double portion of his spirit upon Elisha. There is one indication of God’s answer to Elisha’s prayer is that while Elijah performed seven recorded miracles, fourteen were recorded through