Sodom and Gomorrah

Jacob, other than his split with his brother, surrounded himself with family and was seldom uprooted. In my opinion, I think that Abraham was a man in pursuit of peace even if that meant arguing with God as he did about the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. Jacob was more combative and prone to violence and fits of anger directed towards…

She first starts with Cleanness, which uses the sinful homosexuality present in Sodom and Gomorrah to reestablish heterosexuality as the original and nature form of sex. If this trend in Cleanness is used in the context of SGGK, Dinshaw argues that it is “… explicit that such normative heterosexuality contains homosexual relations…” (218)…

With the thrones ruin, Beowulf apprehends his hubris and remembers what it was like as the young noble warrior. The dragon is an allegory for Beowulf’s pride and greed and alludes to the fire that destroyed the God-cursed cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. The fire of God’s wrath devastated both cities. Goldsmith suggests, “that because the characters of the story live under the Old Covenant the poet has adopted an outmoded moral law for the purposes of his tale. Our sense of the depth of the…

this and mentioned the power of the God of Abraham by hiding the spies in her home. Excluding Rahab all of the decendents of Canaan were to be wiped out, as a purging of that culture. This is not a new theme in the Scriptures as we saw with Sodom and Gomorrah. However, this time it was God’s order to man rather than God and His angels carrying out the command. It was also referenced in the lecture that this similar command was given about Achan and 36 more Israelites who stole from God i.e.…

Why God not gods? The great prophets of the Old Testament are particular lucid and ironical in exposing the intrinsic illogicality of idolatry. And everybody, reasonable or exaggerate from the Hebrew to the Greek Iconoclasts, and from the Moslem Caliphs to the English Roundheads , has always applied, rightly or wrongly, what I may call this a joke of the Old Testament; that mere idolatry is idiotic in itself. Why is idolatry wrong? Above all, why is idolatry funny? The Hebrew Prophet saw the…

Hell, as envisioned by Dante Aligheri in the 14th century, was classified into several circles, representing sins that fall into the themes of incontinence, violence, or fraud. Dante’s organization of The Inferno was meticulous and extremely detailed, to the point where some even labelled his Inferno as a “perfectly functioning bureaucracy” (V: Note 9-12) . While he was very successful and venerated for creating such a comprehensive idea of Hell, if his concept is the standard that must be lived…

The book of Genesis introduces many characters to the readers including Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Abraham and Sarah, and the list goes on. All of these characters play an important role within the overall story of Genesis. Although all of these characters are crucial to the makeup of Genesis, Abraham may be one of the most influential and crucial characters of the Genesis story. The life of Abraham covers thirteen out of the fifty chapters in the book of Genesis, and Abraham is seen as one…

The people of God have always been missional. God chose and led his people on a path that would bring him glory and bless the nations. God wills to be known as the one God of the universe, and he will use his people to do it. Though Israel often rejected the idea of blessing the nations, they are a tool in the hands of the almighty. “The mission of God is to preserve and maximize the blessing that is inherent in the multiplication and spread of the nations while removing the blight of human…

It is also said that homosexuality is becoming more and more common, but again in reference to the Bible, the city of Sodom and Gomorrah was made up almost entirely of homosexuals and those who supported it, so homosexuality has old roots also. Dictionary.com defines marriage as “the social institution under which a man and woman establish their decision to live as husband…

What View am I? When I read Tenny 's explanation of 'The Millennial Views ', I thought to myself what view am I? I also pondered, just how much do I really believe and understand the book of Revelation? First, I do believe it was a revelation from Jesus Christ which God gave to him. There are so many variations of what is the truth. However, God tells us at the beginning of Revelation that he is the author. Therefore, God is the author, Jesus is the Revelation and John is the literal…