Israelites

One of the most critical professions, which deliver a wide variety of services to the community, is Social Work. It is a critical asset for all people, of all genders, ages, and ethnicities. Their main goal, however, is to help those in need and equality. Unlike most occupations, Social Work is more of like a lifestyle. The mission of this “lifestyle” is rooted in a set of six core values. First, A Social Worker’s primary goal is to help people in need and address social problems. These people…

wives to foreign men nor for them to take foreign women as wives for their sons (Ezra 9.12a). By having the presence of intermarriage in their midst, the people or “the holy seed”, had tainted themselves; these acts were not only committed by random Israelites, but also by “the priests, and the Levites” (9.1-2). The author of this chapter acknowledges the depth of the peoples’ disobedience, saying that their “iniquities have risen higher than [their] heads” (Ezra 9.6a). Despite their ancestors…

Falafel is said to have first been made in Egypt. Israelites claim that Falafel originated in Lebanon and the Egyptians "stole" their creation while Israelite Jews were enslaved to the Egyptians back in 2000 B.C. However, the Egyptians used Fava beans instead of chick peas. Some theories even claim that the enslaved Jews learned from the Egyptians how…

empires, his status continued to rise dramatically.” So since Yahweh has been giving victory after victory to the Israelites they give him more and more praise. Which transcends him into being a higher god. This relationship happened because God originally made promises to have the Israelites defeat their enemies and later help them escape slavery from the Egyptians. To the Israelites this is the only higher being that has ever promised something and has kept his word about it. So since he has…

Hammurabi’s Code is the most comprehensive, extensive, and important law code in western history, consisting of 282 laws that aimed to glorify royal power. Similar to Hammurabi’s Code, Exodus 19-21 consists of a set of laws that Moses recorded for the Israelites from the word of God. Many believe that the Mosaic laws were strongly influenced, or even plagiarized from Hammurabi’s code. Throughout both Hammurabi’s Code and Exodus 19-21, there are parallels that suggest that murder, theft, and…

denominations or Catholic. Like he points out, God is self-consistent. Through Old Testament, God constantly commanded His children to live differently from other nations. Then, the only Israelites who lived in that era had moral, ceremonial, and civil laws as a light and salt in the world, and the only Israelites were required to keep God’s law. In addition, we even God directly declares that there are two children who were the children of serpent and woman after Adam rebelled God. Therefore,…

Jew which means the rest of us. The term “Jew” and “Israelite” are used usually in Scripture. When God came to Abraham about 2000 years before Christ was born, God promised Abraham that he would have offspring through whom all the nations of the earth would be blessed. This promise was made again to Isaac, Abraham’s son by promise and then to Jacob, Isaac’s son. Jacob later was given the name “Israel.” His descendants became known as the Israelites and later as the Jews. There are Jews today who…

The African-American folk song, “Follow the Drinking Gourd” was composed in order to provide runaway slaves the directions needed to reach the free states. This folk song provided instructions on how to avoid the white man on their journey, meaning how to avoid capture, being returned to slavery, and potential death; the verses in the song tell the slaves when to move and what to look for. In the H.B. Parks version of “Follow the Drinking Gourd”, he tells runaways: “When the sun come back, when…

The opinion of what truth is like has been distorted over the years. Then everyone began to develop their own separate view, which snowballed into something called moral relativism. Moral relativism contradicts itself, because nothing is true if everyone thinks something different is true. That is why Catholics believe in moral absolutism, which states that morality relies on universal truths and God is as unchanging as them. These universal principles help guide us to a greater morality and are…

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…