Defining Moments From The Bible

     Throughout these chapters we see many portrayals of God’s character: The destroyer, the ever-judging, a God with expectations, a God that grieves, feels pain, repents, a God that demands justice; a self-evaluating, ruling and omnipotent God whom also passes on saving grace to the deserving.

1. Using the book, notes, and biblical text itself, choose two of the Gospels and compare and contrast their presentation of the life of Christ. Be sure to include how things like the authors’ background and audience affect their message.

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This is because I am one of those who have held on to the interpretation that Nineveh turned to the Israelite faith when they repented (53). I finally understand why Jonah was angry. I see that Jonah probably felt that if they had converted to the Israelite faith, God’s unmerited grace to Nineveh would have been justified. But Gods’ perspective in all this that “His grace is bestowed not upon the final achievement of an unblemished faith…rather, His gracious acts rewards attempts no matter how small they may be” (55). So God was not looking into a total conversion but for them to turn away from what they were doing. In the light of this, I notice that God wanted them to take the first step towards repentance and in His own way He would lead them to Himself. I think it is important that when dealing with ourselves or other people, we should understand that God looks our heart’s attitude. As we seek to walk closely with Him, God does not release His grace upon our lives because we have attained a certain level of perfection in our faith but because He sees that in spite of our human weaknesses we have the desire to do the right thing and are taking steps towards it.

(Note that Israelites did not bring a human sacrifice.) It was really a challenge for Abraham to do this feat but he chose to fulfill God’s wishes until the Angel of the Lord .stopped the patriarch at the moment he "took the knife to slay his son"! Now God knew that Abraham does not seek anything "to keep for himself" and that he is actually afraid of God. That is, he venerates him as an almighty Lord, trusts Him wholeheartedly and is willing to obey Him

Abraham: Husband of Sarah, is told by God to leave his home to go to a new land to spread God’s teachings. After much difficulty, he has only one child with Sarah, Isaac, and is ordered to sacrifice him but God intervenes last minute to reveal that it was a test of his faith and he may keep his son.

. God asks Abraham to sacrifice his son, Abraham shows full love to Christ and goes to sacrifice as he was told eventually God sees Abraham loyalty toward him and stops this sacrifice. (22:2-22:19)

He learns about the injustice his people, Israelites, have suffered through, and uses the godly

Through his birth, life, and death depicted within the New Testament, Jesus Christ serves as the symbolic sacrificial Lamb of God in which he not only fulfilled the Old Testament sacrificial system through his demise, but also reversed its precedence as Jesus became “before all things, and in Him all things hold together” (Col. 1:17). A “sacrifice” is defined as the offering up of something precious for a cause or a reason. God performed the very first animal sacrifice to cover, temporarily, the sin of Adam and Eve. After God cursed the first couple, He slayed an animal, shedding its blood, and made from it a covering for Adam and Eve (Genesis 3:21), which solely instituted the practice of animal sacrifice for sin. Within the Old Testament stated through chapters one (1) through ten (10) of Leviticus, God ordered the population of Israel to make several sacrifices according to clear and evident procedures advised by God.

A story consists of the introduction of basic impacts of one’s personal life experiences or formal essay occurrences. Merely reflecting adversities a real person encounters, or one’s self-improvements after encountering challenges by opposition of intellectual attacks. It may include battles, tribulations, and triumphs of evolution. It is told in first point of view of the argument being initiated by the author. On how individuals need to apply bible scriptures in their everyday living. Although, biographies and metamorphoses may bring individual to rationalize how a median point of one’s life may establish moral balanced for the better. It may express their position in history, beliefs, and values. While displaying obstacles on how the outcome may have been influenced by a supernatural belief, church leadership, mentors, tragedy, and transformation of a political or international theory. Method of implementation and motive possibly limited or inspiration became a contributing factor to withstand or the reason for modifying their life.

Those words were, “Forty more days and Nineveh will be overthrown.” Jonah’s statement made them change their ways, so God spared them. Jonah didn’t want to listen to God but he did in the end because he trusted God with his life and knew that it was the right thing to

Bolin, Thomas M. “Should i Not Also Pity Nineveh? Divine Freedom in the Book of Jonah.” Journal for the Study of the Old Testament no. 67 (1995): 109-20.

The book of Jonah is a fascinating one. It is full of intrigue, suspense, questions, and unbelievable events that let the discerning believer in on the awesome power of God’s correction, His love, and especially His grace. For some reason Jonah, though a prophet of God who seemingly was willing to follow the Lord’s commands, did not adopt the “grace” attribute of God’s character. Jonah was judgmental, as human beings often are, and he could not see past the egregious sin of Nineveh in order to understand the grace and the heart of God.

In addition, the city of Nineveh is described in Nahum as “bloody, full of deceit, and full of plunder” (Bolin 117). The Ninevites’ actions therefore justified Jonah’s decision to disobey God’s command because of how ruthless they were. The nature of the great city disgusted Jonah and made him believe that the Ninevites were not worthy of God’s forgiveness. Although Jonah’s intuition to ignore God’s command seems admissible, we later learn that it is not up to Jonah to determine the Ninevites’ fate.

Abram leaves his home and family, and departs into the "strange land" of Canaan, showing an extreme obedience to God and understanding of his duty to father this great race. Throughout Genesis, Abraham builds altars to God and sacrifices animals. In Genesis 22:2, God tells Abraham, "Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains". The next day, Abraham sets off for Moriah "and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood. And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son." After God stops the sacrifice, he tells Abraham, "Now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me."