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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 ...
learned from Moses instruction (Hammer, 1995). When Joshua would become a ruler in his own right, he would always follow Moses ex...
conflict with them but he avoided that. He could foresee that getting into a serious argument with his enemies would lead to unnec...
meeting with the other man, calling in elders and others to witness the exchange. The other man renounces his claim and takes off ...
following Gods first message to move but he did not wait to see if God would tell him the best path to take. There are certain par...
prophets was to convey a message from God to the People. They received the divine messages differently, some in a dream, some in a...
as his twelve disciples, and the authors of the books of the New Testament, as well as the vast majority of the earliest Christian...
poured into thy lips: therefore God hath blessed thee for ever. Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O most Mighty, with thy glory and t...
so disfigured that three of his friends do not recognize him when they come to visit him. The three friends are Eliphaz, Bildad...
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...
Will Salvation Take You? 2004). The Bible specifically states that it is salvation that is the key to opening the kingdom of hea...
first part of the reign of Josiah (640-609 BCE) (Exegetical helps, 2004). The words of Zephaniah reflect the faithlessness of the...
of Joshua (chs. 23-24) (Strange, 2002). A really interesting element in chapter 24 is its setting, as the entirety of its story ta...
of benefits an individual receives as the result of following Gods law in the Old Testament and by believing in and entrusting one...
Old Testament as a straightforward history. Rather, both men advocate that these texts emerged as a "self-defining narrative of a ...
codified into groups of laws, established the basis of laws established in future cultures. While punishments were severe, they re...
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...
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...
as revealed in the literary/mythological writings of ancient Greece. In "The Iliad," for example, when the mighty warrior Achille...
In eleven pages this research paper refers to the Old Testament in a consideration of why Jesus is not accepted as the Messiah by ...
In six pages this paper examines Jerusalem's symbolic importance in a consideration of both Old and New Testaments along with Acts...
In five pages this paper discusses the conflict represented by the relationships of brothers Absalom and Amnon, Jacob and Esau, an...
In 1178 Maimonides completed Mishneh Torah, what he had hoped would be a compete authoritative code of Jewish law (both Oral and W...