Old Testament saints

the Hebrew Bible’s story of the seer Balaam showcases God’s enduring covenant even in the light of the Israelite 's transgressions. In many ways, the story of Balaam presented in the passage of interest and the story of Balaam presented in the old testament…

Liberal Christianity vs Christian Fundamentalism There has always been a tension between those who have a liberal perspective and those who have a fundamentalist perspective on anything in life. This is for good reason, those with liberal views believe change is necessary and those with fundamentalist views believe that change is not. When you apply these two ways of thinking to a religious text such as the Christian Bible you get a separation within a religion. Between the two ways of…

Introduction I am looking at the theme of hope in the main events of the Old Testament I am presenting this to the youth of our church with the hope that they understand what it was to have hope back in the Old Testament times Body God created the world so that they Being Adam and Eve could enjoy the world. They would be the possible future of the world. God wanted them to live in peace and to shear the world with them . In the fall they were tempted by the serpent. They sinned and God…

from the Old Testament of the Bible illustrates a primary belief of the Christian worldview that leads to several other key beliefs. The Hellenistic worldview, however, does not believe God created man and woman, as they do not believe in God as the creator of all. Also, in Exodus from The Hebrew Bible, Lawall (2006) announces "I am the LORD your God Who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slaves, You shall have no other gods beside ME" (p.65). In this scene from the Old…

then it cannot be perfect. For the Jews of the Old Testament, righteousness was, contrary to popular belief, not brought upon by obeying the laws and statutes of God through prayer, sacrifice, and everyday life. These rule-based actions were simply methods by which people could live a holier life and remain close to the standard laid out for them, the one that showed very clearly the disparity between righteous living and sin. Even in Old Testament times the way to righteousness was through…

same god as Judaism, but they believe that Jesus is divine and the savior of humanity. The other similar fact, between the Christianity is that The Holy Bible, which was given to the Jesus Christ by god, consists of the Old Testament in the Hebrew Bible, but with the New Testament. The third religion is Islam, which symbols are the star and crescent and original religion is Arabic. Islam follows the Quran which was given to the prophet Mohammed by god. For a person to be Jewish he/she have to do…

The bible is more than just some make-believe story for people to believe in. The bible is a huge piece of art, written by those whom God found worthy. As we begin understanding the meaning embedded throughout the Old Testament, it is important to start from the beginning, before mankind. With the great power of God, He created the world in which we live today. In this creation He also created something exceptional, one man and one woman. As the story goes on we being to learn of the important…

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 genre of Deuteronomy 6:1-9 is law. Law was God’s gift to Israel, a covenant or promise that he made with them that if they lived Godly lives, they would be fruitful in the land he would give them. Often times when people today think of the word “law”, they associate it with being controlled, but in this context it wasn’t seen as a way to hold people back. While it was Israel’s constitution, the main purpose of law was to instruct the Israelites on how to thrive in the promised land and have…

Albert Schweitzer once said, “Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.”(GoodReads). While some are aware of small portions of Christianity’s history, many are unaware of the cultures and religions that influenced the spread of the religion as well as the religion’s practices, beliefs, and churches. From Rome’s influences on the church as a state, the architecture of Christian churches, and the spread of the religion, to Jewish influences on the Christian Bible,…