Yahweh

would think the book of Ecclesiastes is depressing and the author is messed up. Verses like “And I declared that the dead, who have already died, are happier than the living, who are still here,” (Ecclesiastes 4:2) seems very strange and not what Yahweh would of wanted. It seems though that if you read the book very closely there seems to be a message of hopefulness. When it says “vanity of vanities,” (Ecclesiastes 1:2 and 12:8) is a clue to the author’s confidence. The word “vanity” appears in…

. THE DISPENSATION OF CREATION Chapter 5 THE DISPENSATION OF CREATION GENESIS 1:1 In the last chapter (Chapter 4) I had written in my introduction the following: //Before I take up Genesis 1:1, which is the only beginning we know well, and my next topic, I would like us to examine briefly a time period starting from the time the Word-Being (son) came into existence, to the creation of the earth (Genesis 1:1). This time period I will tentatively call the Dispensation of Time/Space. What and how…

mother Jochebed sent her son down the River Nile in Egypt. Years later, Moses led the Hebrews out of Egypt to what is known as Caanan or “The Promised Land”. While in the Sanai desert At Mount Sinai, Yahweh presented Moses with the Torah and The Ten Commandments. Unfortunately due to his disobedience to Yahweh, Moses was not permitted to enter The Promised Land. Instead Moses was permitted a view of the Promised…

This difference distinguishes each society’s worldview and discourse. The Mesopotamian society has a subservient, fearful relationship with their creator (Marduk) and the other gods; the Hebrew society has a personal relationship with their God (Yahweh) and dominion over the Earth. We can see that God created man to live, not serve in Genesis 1, “And God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and…

The Hebrews were a Semitic nation of monotheistic people. They worshipped under the ruling of one god, Yahweh. During this period of worship, ideas, traditions, laws, advice, prayers, hymns, history and prophecies were recorded and preserved. According to the Bible, after being led out of Egypt by Moses in the 13th century, they settled in Palestine. Later…

an actual place of punishment, but it is clear that it is only used (even in reference to the righteous) when they are faced with some unhappy situation, which they interpret as divine judgment. Furthermore, a slight change occurred in how Sheol is presented in the prophets. There, it is often associated with prophetic judgments, punishment and suffering for the wicked. As the OT closes and we move to the NT, the term Sheol disappears, and a new term “Hell” is introduced. What had happened to…

The three Abrahamic religions – Judaism, Christianity and Islam ¬¬¬– all have one thing in common, the nature of monotheism. Judaism innovated the idea of one God about 3000 years ago, with the Israelites. Though it was restricted to the people of Israel, this was the first time a monotheistic religion came into play. Worshipping the same God of Israel, Christians were the second monotheistic believers. The teachings of Jesus Christ of Nazareth were next to become revolutionary. As the Son, he…

The Bible and the 500 Years of Conquest, written by Elsa Tamez, articulates the varying treatments of the Bible in the past centuries. The five treatments include use of the Bible for conquest, rejection of the Bible, the "popular" reading of the bible and Indigenous hermeneutics. In this first treatment, the Biblical narrative from Exodus is used to justify the conquest and genocide of non-Christians throughout history. Stating that just as the Israelites took the land of Canaan, so should the…

they have not upheld his covenant. God’s people had turned away from his laws and had forsaken him. They idolized and worshiped other gods, when Judah owed their allegiance only to the one true God. ----- says, “They have forsaken their loyalty to Yahweh and replaced it with hatred and apostasy. “They are not children of God but “a brood of evildoers” (Burge, 632). In this book we really see the emphasis on the holiness of the Lord and the wickedness of the Judeans. We are presented with God’s…

severely or even killed. Empires tried to instill political loyalty by creating stare cults to honor the emperors as gods, this requirement started a serious problem with the Jewish. The Jewish who were strictly monotheistic, only recognized one god Yahweh. The Christians formed…