Chosen people

For this class, I learned a lot of material covered throughout the Old Testament. I learned about the chosen people, their mistakes, their punishment, and how God showed his grace even when they disobeyed. However, there is one group of people that kept the descendants of Abraham throughout their time, the prophets. These people were chosen messengers of God’s word, and even though the messages weren’t always pretty, they were always true. As a result, I have decided to give an insight on the…

(144).” By this Jesus then shows not just the Jewish faith, but also the world that the Kingdom of God was on Earth. This merely sparked the belief that Jesus was in fact the Son of God. He goes on to prove who he is by preforming miracles and showing people of all classes and races God’s true love for humankind. Act 5 is about spreading the good news as the mission of the Church. Witnesses spread all over the Middle Eastern area sharing the good news. They went to Jerusalem, Samaria, Judea, and…

Within Paul’s letter to the Romans, he confronts many relevant concerns and issues of Christian life. Paul reminds us that turning away from God could result in feeling his wrath. He explains how God’s plans exceed beyond the redeeming of his chosen people, the Israelites, and how he wants to redeem the world. Throughout this letter we see the state of man, and learn that the solution is not being a better person, but accepting the will of God and having faith that God will see you through. The…

God uses certain people to impact many others. After reading the first twenty chapters of Exodus, it is clear that God was still living out his promise to Abraham through Moses. Moses’ lineage traces back to Jacob, Isaac, and Abraham. God placed the infant Israelite, Moses, in Pharaoh’s household, speaks to Moses, uses Moses to free the Israelites and finally taught the Israelites of God’s laws in these chapters. God’s covenant to Abraham included all of Abraham’s decedents taking over the…

and disciples. I have never considered myself important enough for God’s attention. However, I now realize that God chooses the imperfect people to be his disciples. God chose people such as Abraham, Jacob, and Gideon to carry out his will and be influential characters in ancient times. God has also chosen me to carry out his will and to influence the people in my life. Gideon was a young man who freed the Israelites from the Midianites. He was the most unlikely candidate for God’s plan.…

mountain and communes with the Lord. The story is presented in chapter thirty-two of Exodus, and would appear to explain the incident by an intrinsic evil within certain ranks of the Israelites (the Lord going so far as to call them a “stiffnecked people” in Exodus 32.9 ) and incompetence on the part of Aaron. Yet there are problems with this interpretation. Why do the Israelites even elect to build a golden calf? Why use gold, a highly valuable metal, and why…

1:18-21: I make a break here because Jude instead of asking people to live in the last times he asks them to live close to God and his people. Summary: Jude is telling us that we can’t live in the last times( the time were the godless was present), but; rather we need to live close to God and other Christians. 1: 22-23: I make a break here because Jude shifts from living close to God and his people to saving people from God’s judgement through compassion and kindness while also being…

the book of Exodus can be divided into four major identities. These four consists of liberation, law, covenant, and presence . Based off of these four themes, it is seen that God is supreme over all of the nations, but in particular Israel is his people, and God will continue to preserve them by actions expressed and appropriated generation to generation . This is expressed as seeing God as a god of history who comes into being through the Israelites with their enslavement in Egypt to liberation…

important both social and economically in the hierarchy because the appoint would also be a feudal lord.” This indicates the power that king gives the bishop or abbot that was chosen not only as a spiritual leader, but a feudal lord as well. Which means for the citizens of that land that the bishop or abbot has authority over other people just alike a royal appointee. The economical approach we see Bruno use is “the selection of bishop or abbot often led to corruption and manipulation by the…

never asked to be taken in as a special people for generations to come. However, some will argue against this as they asked for help. Despite the position one takes on this, it can be agreed upon that in the metaphor of an adopted child God used in His anger is quite shocking when paired with whore. Israel was promised to be a great nation back in Abraham’s time so the Israelites never had the chance to ask first if this was what they wanted. To reprimand a people for their wrong doings they…