Hebrew Bible people

the text is appropriated and inappropriate. The biblical text has relevance to the church today in regards to the Biblical narrative, original audience, and context. The Bible is a typological resource in viewing present problems, certainly, but as Rowland points out, as violated by these two theologians: “[t]he language of the Bible has become a mode of discourse in which the original context and purpose has ceased to be of discourse in which the original context and purpose has ceased to be of…

days, people will show evidence of their ignorance and debased minds by mocking the idea that God will again disrupt the continuity of life by displaying His wrath on a desperately immoral world. Peter says God will again bring punishment on a wicked earth. But this time it will be with fire, not water. To what extent is the sin of Sodom linked with the days of Noah? What did those times have in common? Both periods were extremely evil in the sight of the Lord. Both had only a handful of people…

I interviewed two of my co-workers (Dan and Jaclyn) and one person that volunteers in third through fifth grade ministry (Steve). I found it intriguing that none of the people I chose to interview subscribed completely to a literal Biblical Young Earth interpretation. I have summarized their answers below. On the question of length of day, Steve was in the 24 hour camp. His reason was that he believed the text was talking about the amount of light in a given period of time since on the first…

the Old Testament, God deals with Israel much like a father would with his son or daughter. When Israel began willfully to sin against Him and worship idols, God punished them, but once they repented God would deliver them. This is also shown in Hebrews 12:6 which states that God disciplines those He loves and punishes those He calls son. As our Father, God loves His children, but He also disciplines those who disobey Him. Psalm 145 states that God is righteous and that He exhibits love…

his promise to Abraham, who was a Jew. You have to be on the important people list when you are prominently mentioned in the oppositions bible. Abraham along with Jesus is mentioned in all three major religious publications, the Bible, Torah and Koran. “Recall Abraham was put to the test by his Lord, through certain commands. And he fulfilled them. (God) said “I am appointing you an Imam (leader or role model) for the people”. Every family has its secrets, Mohammad’s began with the covenant…

at Mt. Sinai, and the eventual establishment of the Israelites in the land, called the Promised Land, that God had promised to them as the descendants of Abraham. If Moses had not had this encounter with God, many of the events described in the Hebrew Bible might never have taken place. Overall, God’s commissioning of Moses as His spokesperson is the true beginning and basis for the development of the subsequent events of the Pentateuch.…

righteous woman named Hannah had a baby after many years of prayer and hope, she named him Sam-u'el. ("sam" meant simply "name”; "El" meant “God.") So the name in Hebrew meant, "name is God." When he was weaned, she took him to the temple in Shiloh and dedicated him to God for whom he was named and asked the old priest, Eli, to raise him. The Bible has a long poem called "Hannah's Song" sung as she gave her little boy to God's holy man, Eli. Her song has some similarity to the "Magnificat"…

by fear from centuries of Islamic violence. Smith expresses that a Christian aspect toward the prophet Muhammad as a phony and the Qur’an to be deceitful. The Christian aspect toward the Qur’an is that they believe the only connection between the Bible and the Qur’an is Jesus Christ himself (“Christianity vs. Islam”). Christians also believe the Qur’an did not come from the one true God because of the misconceptions or misunderstandings found inside. Christians further disagree with the Qur’an…

THEOLOGICAL & BIBLICAL BACKGROUND The Call to Pastoral Ministry An individual must be called by God into at least one ministry office. My pastoral ministry is my “calling” by God Almighty. My pastoral ministry begins with my personal call by God, along with my theological education at the Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary for preparation for pastoral ministry. Raised in a Baptist home, my grandmother took us to Sunday worship services at St. Paul Baptist Church in Garfield,…

never been shy about talking about hope. In several ways hope is one of the core aspects of our faith. The word “hope” appears 187 times in the NRSV translation of the Bible, so it would seem that we should be accustomed to the idea. This leads us to ask the important questions; what does hope mean to the Christian? How does the Bible define hope? How is hope essential to the faith? In this section I will address these questions and in doing so will illustrate how hope is a theological…