Old Kingdom

The old testament of the bible is notoriously marked by the number of deaths it contains. Outside of those who are struck down by God, or who die as a result of various conflicts, there’s a unique description of life and death in Genesis. The long, and rather dry, lineages that are present in Genesis are put in between longer biblical stories and serve as a tool for relating stories together, as well as providing a timeline for the events in Genesis. These lineages are rarely addressed in…

The Christian Satan Ask any American Christian about Satan and they will probably describe an evil being who hates God and Christians, but this has not always been the case. Much of the present day Christian views on Satan began to take shape during the beginning of Christianity. Early Christian writers helped shape the development of Satan, including his influence on humanity, within the boundaries of the Christian tradition. Such ideas created the framework for the writings of the New…

God’s solid foundation stands firm, sealed with this inscription: “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Everyone who confesses the name of the Lord must turn away from wickedness”. As we can see God has his hand in all situations in lives from the Old Testament time period and still has his hand in situations in today’s time…

Essay Topic 1 Around the year 2000 B.C.E., the rulers of Babylon integrated all of the surrounding regions of Sumer to organize the First Babylonian Empire. In order to successfully unite these regions, a strong and advantageous leader known as Hammurabi was chosen as the sixth King of the Babylonian Empire. Hammurabi developed a system of collecting a culmination of the local statutes and the existing legal practice codes and combined 282 laws with scaled punishments into one single body of…

‘The Kingdom of God’ is something that was so misunderstood in Jewish traditions, that even today there is some ambiguity as to what it truly means and how to receive it or go there. This needs to be looked at from God/Jesus’s point of view rather than mankind 's view as they can differ greatly, and that is something this essay is going to explore. I will look at what the prevailing Jewish expectations and traditions were, as well as what Jesus says about the Kingdom of God throughout the bible.…

how to live your life as a Christian,but more importantly, how to be a better human being. The Bible starts with God creating all. The first sentence states that; “In the Beginning God created the heavens and the earth” (Genesis 1:1). In the Old Testament, we learn that the character of God as The Creator is loving, patient, kind, just, merciful, gracious, joyful, creative, generous, and also jealous and angry. We are also told in the Bible, that we are created in His image; “So God…

left his homeland of Ur God would make his name great. God would also bring about a nation for Abraham that would be blessed. They would have numerous offspring and his future descendant would be a king. It is under this covenant the history of the Old Testament would be spell out with one more connecting…

in the mist of suffering. The Pope’s discussion of what suffering is was insightful. I was not aware of the lack of diction in the Old Testament between suffering and evil. This would explain why of the many good quotes about suffering that I can think of; none come from the Old Testament. The discussion about the connection between evil and suffering in the Old Testament…

Overview: God calls Jonah to preach to Nineveh, but Jonah refuses and runs away on a boat that he is later thrown over into the sea. Jonah was swallowed by a large fish and prayed for forgiveness, so God made the fish spit him out onto land. God once again sent Jonah to Nineveh where the people except the message and repent. Jonah is furious that they were saved and his prophecy of their distraction does not come true. Behind the Text: When Nineveh is mentioned in the book of Zephaniah, that…

which need to be answered in the regards of revelation of the Bible, how the Bible was inspired,and what is the authority of the Bible. In other words: is the Bible speaking to me? How do I know the Bible is not just another document? Why should this old book have authority over me? These are valid questions which many believers today take for granted. Yet, the importance of these questions infect the life of the follower of King Messiah in ways which may be difficult to grasp. What is…