Grandma Moses

Chapter 3 begins with the story of Moses and the burning bush (Exodus 3:1-14). In revealing His mysterious name, YHWH (I AM WHO I AM), God says who He is and by what name He is to be called. This divine name is mysterious just as God is mystery. One of these is that since God is Being, He upholds and sustains all of creation and all creatures in being, enables them to act and brings them to their final end. Father Barron considers Anselm's "Ontological Argument", his description of God as that…

Judges 17 opens with a story of the questionable nature of Micah’s ethics as the author immediately introduces Micah as the one whom stole his mother’s silver. For that matter, all characters in the story have morality issues. “The narrator presents only undesirable characters, whose words and deeds complement each other.” Micah steals the silver, his mother allows the returned silver to be formed into an idol, and the Levite accepts Micah’s worship practices of the LORD and idols. The…

Raissa Silva Pr. Niño October 20, 2014 The Sanctuary: The Table of Shewbread The more we study the sanctuary God told the Israelites to build, the more we understand God's plan for the salvation of humanity. The table of shewbread was a very important piece of furniture within the Holy Place. Everything about its purpose and function has a spiritual application. The table of shewbread's purpose was to hold twelve loaves of bread. The twelve loaves were to be placed in two rows of six, each…

Artifact Report The Exodus is an important event, not just as a historical view, but for a religious one as well. For something as significant as it is, there is very little evidence to support the claim; which is referenced in the bible. An event which freed thousands of slaves from the hands of Egypt, summoned plagues, parted a sea, and drowned an army. However, if you were a superior nation, ruling as a god, and lost nearly everything to a slave revolt, would you want to document your losses?…

and He is perfectly able to see it through. He chose His people, the Israelites, and through many miracles, God proved to the them that He alone is God and there is no other. God disclosed in Exodus that sin does not go unpunished, because even Moses, with all he did to lead the people to the Promised Land, did not get to enter it himself. He struck the rock…

Israelites break God’s commandments by worshiping the golden calf. Though God delivered the Israelites from slavery in Egypt through several trials and tribulations, this was still not enough for them to follow his commandments. As a result, God condones Moses’ decision to let the Levites kill 3,000 Israelites. It seems unsettling for god to on the one hand permit genocide and on the other hand help people enjoy the benefits of earth. However, this act serves as a form of ethnic cleansing. It is…

Nyssan in The Life of Moses gives a synopsis of the life of Moses, which is primarily recorded in the book of Exodus. He argues that nothing dead can be in the presence of God, because “sandaled feet cannot ascend to that height where the light of truth is seen,” as only the living can ever be in the presence of the Lord. Nyssan argues that the presence of God is holy ground, which is the reason that Moses is commanded to take off his sandals in the presence of the burning bush. Nyssa goes on…

It is not surprising that there are differences between the biblical tribes and Greek warriors when it comes to how they live their life and show respect and honor; after all they lived in a different time period and in separate parts of the world. In the Book of Joshua, deceit is shown in both good and bad forms when Rahab, the prostitute, helps protect the messengers from not being killed by lying to the King of Jericho. Being a prostitute is considered unholy so Rahab is showing that she can…

of imagery given by Edward P. Jones in the passage. For example, “When he, Moses, finally freed himself of the ancient and brittle harness that connected him to the oldest mule his master owned, all that was left of the sun was a five inch- long memory of red orange laid out in still waves across the horizon between the two mountains on left and one on the right.” This quote gives us information on what kind of job Moses has. He was to guide the mule to plow the field. It also gives us…

Challenging Destiny “He knew he was a tithe from the time he was little. ‘You're special,’ his parents had always told him. ‘Your life will be to serve God, and mankind,’” (Shusterman 31). From the very beginning, this has been Lev’s destiny. He is the star student and athlete of his family of twelve, and he has always known that his supreme purpose is to sacrifice himself for God through unwinding, a process where his body parts and organs are separated to be used as replacements for others,…