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Essays 91 - 120
is far more to life than just that of worldly possessions -- it taught the value of life at its purist form. These same teachings...
Bible are commonly referred to as the Torah or the Pentateuch. Pleins (2001) argues that the juxtaposition of lists and codes foun...
were captive in Babylon and, therefore, exposed to this culture. The traditional Jewish and Christian viewpoint has been that M...
repair the ravages of human sinfulness" (OBrien, 1999, p. 16). However, the allure of worldliness proved too much for the Israeli...
holds the Greeks captive in his cave, into allowing them to escape by first blinding his one eye while he sleeps. However, Odysseu...
Both from biblical and theological perspectives, scholars have increasingly recognized the distortions that have crept into the Ch...
Testament Law and the Ten Commandments express this relationship (Out of Egypt, 2003). One of the first examples of Gods...
special messages to the people. Jonah, who refused to take the message the Lord gave him into Nineveh, suffered the consequences o...
early restrictions and their application to Mosaic law, as well as an understanding of the role of Moses, are elements important i...
chapter, and discusses what God has done for the people of Israel. In this Sermon, Moses relates the actions that were taken that...
God Abraham received was detailed in Genesis as follows: "Go forth from your native land / And from your fathers house / And I wil...
Will Salvation Take You? 2004). The Bible specifically states that it is salvation that is the key to opening the kingdom of hea...
of Joshua (chs. 23-24) (Strange, 2002). A really interesting element in chapter 24 is its setting, as the entirety of its story ta...
first part of the reign of Josiah (640-609 BCE) (Exegetical helps, 2004). The words of Zephaniah reflect the faithlessness of the...
phrases use in the Gospels is that is used exclusively by Christ and is never employed by his disciples or others, nor by early Ch...
also referred as "the law," due to the fact that they contain "the laws and instruction" that were handed down by God to Moses and...
no historical value to the Book of Esther and that it is a "work of the imagination, written for the purpose of popularizing the f...
out by Nehemiah in two sets, initially and then, upon his return (Eastons Bible Dictionary, 1897). The Book of Nehemiah informs t...
to bring a great flood that would cover the earth but Noah was a righteous man and God decided to save humanity through Noah and H...
a religious leader to one ruled by a king, that is, a political leader. Sauls downfall as a ruler is considered to be tragic in th...
and 1 Kings 11:3 indicates that the monarch of Israel had "seven hundred princesses and three hundred concubines." There is a gr...
learned from Moses instruction (Hammer, 1995). When Joshua would become a ruler in his own right, he would always follow Moses ex...
so disfigured that three of his friends do not recognize him when they come to visit him. The three friends are Eliphaz, Bildad...
King Sauls successor, as God has rejected Saul due to his disobedience.ix When Samuel comes to the house of Jesse in Bethlehem to ...
the "restored kingdom of David" (Hahn 28). Matthews Gospel perfectly typifies what Augustine meant when he commented that the "N...
phrase could mean the individual had a special relationship with God, therefore, they must learn the meaning of this in terms of J...
Testament, these words generally refer to "service associated with the work done in the temple."6 In the New Testament, these word...
this festival secretly because He knew people were debating who He was (John 7:10). People were already plotting against Him (Keme...
under them split asunder; and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, with their households and all the men that belonge...
A devout person will say that he or she "sees" "God in all things" (Hodges 101). This person is referring to an act of "intuitive ...