Grandma Moses

Throughout the New Testament, Jesus used parables directed at the often hypocritical religious leaders of the time and used it to bridge the transition from Judaism to Christianity. The Parable of the Tenants is a great example of Jesus chastising the Jewish lawgivers and the leadership of the religion. In doing so establishing the 'cornerstone ' of the new church. In Matthew 21, Jesus tells us the Parable of the Tenants while instructing these elders and leaders to listen carefully because…

Sodom and Gomorrah Summary: Sodom and Gomorrah are two exceptionally evil cities. God sends angels to see just how evil the city of sodom is. The angels enter the city and are taken home by a man named Lot. That night the evil people of Sodom beat on Lot door and demanded he send out the angels to them. The angels go out and strike everyone blind. The next morning the angels convince Lot, with his wife and two daughters, to flee the city. God then destroys both Sodom and Gomorrah with fire and…

Discuss the stories of Abraham and the Exodus. What origins do they signify? What are the social functions of these texts? Abram, later to be renamed by God Abraham, originated from Ur, which was considered to be a cultured and ancient city. Minimalist scholars believe this to be the origins of the Israelites were Canaanites. As we learn later on in the book of Joshua the Israelites were lead by Joshua on a conquest in Canaan. The reason for minimalists believing Canaan origins is due to…

Moses then goes up to the mountain and talked to God. God came before him and was telling Moses what the people, the Israelites should be aware of because he had delivered them away from the evil ones. During the whole conversations, God is telling Moses to go deliver his messages on what the people should do before the third day and not do when God comes before them. "Go to…

Brynner, Anne Baxter and Vincent Price) and received aw-worthy reviews. This cinematic masterpiece received many awards including the Oscar for best picture in 1957. The film portrays the biblical story of Moses, an adopted Egyptian Prince, and his grueling journey to set his people free. Moses is banished from Egypt. He journeys to Mt. Sinai where he encounters the burning bush and god. It is there that he is tasked by god with setting his people free. Although this film was well ahead of…

33:12-16, a new side of Moses is visible where he is actively accepting his duty to be the mediator between God and His people. There is also a shift in Moses’ and God’s interaction. Moses begins taking more control of the conversation by professing his thoughts on the Israelites and how they should be lead. This shift extends to the fact that Moses is not just God’s hand picked spokesman to the people, but is now his faithful companion. In the beginning of this excerpt, Moses straightforwardly…

The timing of the birth of Jesus was the right time because it was the appointed time of God. God knew, before the earth was created, what He wanted to do and how life and history would unfold. This may sound odd, but I visualize the beginning of the world up until the birth of Jesus as a pregnancy. Just like time that goes by in a pregnancy, there are trimesters, or periods of time that are marked by specific events culminating in the birth of a child. Jesus, is that child and the different…

choose, but by forcing another person to abide by your religious beliefs, you are interfering with the foundation of the First Amendment. The Ten Commandments are, in general, a list of rules that Christians believe God himself created and handed to Moses, so he could spread the will of the Lord. As the question stated, those who are in…

Anisfeld, Moshe. “Why was Moses barred from leading the people into the promised land?: a psycho theological answer” Jewish Bible Quarterly 39, no.4 (October 2011): 211-220. Anisfeld’s article is a, psycho-theological answer about Moses. He believes that the reason Moses was barred from leading the Israelites into the promise land was not that Moses committed sin however because he “failed to counteract the peoples slide into blasphemy”, about God. The traditional view is that Moses was…

Just as God elected the Israelites, He has also elected me to be one of His children 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…