Hunter Bergstrom
Mr. Thomason
Foundations of Christianity
11 May, 2015
Exegesis Paper
The Bible is one of sdsds throughout the entire history of the world. People have always fought over true meanings and interpretations of the text and there is no way to find out the true meaning of the different passages. People spend so much time trying to find the meanings of the Bible and they don't try to form their own personal and intimate relationship with the text to try and grow in their own personal faith through reading the commentaries and other's interpretations of the text. All interpretations are useless if there is no drive or personal passion to reach a connection with God and grow spiritually. Through writing this exegetical paper I was
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After to division of Israel the Northern Kingdom was strongly influenced by the surrounding civilizations and turned away from God and resorted to worshiping false gods and idols. There is a constant pattern in the Old Testament where the Israelites abandon God and they are punished and then come back to him and are forgiven. This book is a plead for the people to turn away from the sinful things they are doing. The people who he is talking to are struggling with whether they should trust him and believe that they will be saved if they go back to God …show more content…
Verse 1-11 have a lot of relevancy behind them even though they may seem irrelevant to us. This is an army I believe symbolizes the corrupt and imperfect lives that people apart from God live. Our lives are so fragile with destruction and corruption around every corner. We have to realize that apart from God there is nothing that good for our lives and we have to keep God in our focus and live for him. Then in verses 12-17 there is the call for people to rally for God and come back to him. This shows us all that if we are all faithful to God that we will be saved. God will except us back and still love us. God's salvation is the only thing that will protect us from these trials that we would face without Him.Verses 18-27 are showing the love
He tells of the Gentiles coming and inheriting the americas telling about how there will be a gathering in the americas in the last days with another great multitude of people who not just Gentiles but other people of the lord. The Multitude will also lose control of the Americas to the gentiles and will be cut off.
So he is saying he will never forget all the death that he was witness to. In the next passage he says he will never forget the faces of the children. Again he is referring to death and he will especially never forget the forget the children who died. Then he contrasts this awfulness with the thought of a beautiful blue sky. This could also symbolize the souls of the children going to heaven. Then he states that the flames consumed his faith forever meaning he is starting to lose faith in his God because of all the horrific things he is seeing. Again he is referring to night and again bringing up the theme of darkness and horror. It is also stated that what he is seeing is depriving him of his will to live. The next section again states his lose of faith and how these events have crushed his dreams. Coming back to when he said he no longer had a desire to live he is saying that if he were to live forever or as long as God he would not want to because of how these memories would haunt him forever. He is saying that eternal life to him would be a punishment and a curse that he wishes not to
He tries to explain his point of view of Hell so we can have an idea of what and how is the afterlife. Every bad decision or action will be paid up in hell. Everyone in hell is divided based on the relationship between the offense committed and the punishments deserved. He wants people to understand and identify themselves with the importance of life and a person’s relationship with God. Based on committing good actions and decisions, we must leave to look for salvation in the afterlife. The action of doing the right thing is what lead you to better outcomes and fewer punishments in the
Moving on, from what Richter named the barrier (people, time, and space), chapter three contains the outworking of God through the five men discussed before. As she states, “the biblical writers consciously organized their material in a systematic fashion in order to communicate certain central truths.” The author briefly details the aspects of the covenants within the Old Testament surrounding Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, and David. Taking, in turn, each of them and expositing them in a way that shows the redemptive story that is taking place. “For each of these characters was called to mediate a covenant between God and humanity”. Tying into the culture of the people, God used the fallen and difficult Israelite culture to set up his redemptive plan the would show to be faithful, even to a faithless people.
The association further believes there is only one true interpretation of Scripture, although there may be several applications. The true meaning lies in the text and is that which the divinely-guided author willed to convey. It is recoverable through careful application of a literal (grammatical, historical, contextual) method of interpretation under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, and in the community of Christ. The Holy Spirit illumines the text, enabling the reader to embrace the significance of what God has communicated, and to see the glory of Christ in the Word of God. To sum this up, they believe they are right about
He paints a picture of God’s vengeance, of a karmic repayment for all of the suffering of God’s children due to slavery. Not only is he asking the people to understand why the war effort must continue, no matter how bad it got, but he’s also asking them to act in God’s image and help to take that vengeance on His behalf. He was certain that this war was the will of God and that it must be continued at all costs in order to do what was biblically
This book review is from the readings of Biblical Inspiration by Howard Marshall. The book is published by Regent College Publishing located in Vancouver, and British Columbia published the book in 2004. The book is braces around the interpretation of the Bible, and the inspiration of the Bible in our lives of today. There are many questions that are brought up the book, and these include: Is the Bible infallible? How do we interpret the Bible today? is its inspiration believable in and biblical criticism believable? All of the different opinions on biblical issues equivalent to these bring up issues and questioning within the community. It is Marshall’s goal to try and produce a statement that is concrete of what the Bible says in our lives today.
The rest of his verse is about religion and personal opinion. This is related back to the argument “power comes from belief” because it asks is religion only powerful and broad since God is powerful and God is a part of
This passage talks about how you should not complain to God when you are stuck in a bad situation. The people in this reading complained that they had no food or water and God sent down a Saraph Serpents which killed many of them. They did not see the good in anything they had and just focused on the things that were not pleasant to them. These people finally asked God for forgiveness for only complaining and not listening. It is important to always trust in God. If you follow and believe in God, he will help you get through your difficult situations and make your life worry free. If you disobey God and blame all the bad things that happen to you on him, then your life will continue to be filled with unfortunate things.
This exegesis report will focus on the Gospel according to Luke 13:10-17. In this narrative, Jesus is teaching in a synagogue on the Sabbath when a woman appears who has been bent over crippled for eighteen years. Jesus cures this woman of her aliment. The leader of the synagogue becomes indignant that Jesus cured on the Sabbath and says to the crowd that work should not be done on the Sabbath. Jesus answers what he did was not work and was allowed on the Sabbath.
Recently I have been overwhelmed by the various conflicting views on the interpretation the bible. Many people say that to be a Christian you must follow and believe the bible verbatim. However, I realize that it is nearly impossible to do that because of the context in which it was written. Marcus Borg’s has successfully provided a logical way to read the bible, with still being able to respect and incorporate older Christian traditions, but also focusing and taking into consideration the modernized world and reality in which we read the bible today. Hence the essential subtitle, Taking The Bible Seriously But not Literally. I salute Borg’s for taking on the challenge of addressing a burning issue that separates two distinct group of
Obviously the title says god and it is about a guy preaching that everyone is a sinner and has made god angry. In the passage he says, “oh sinner, consider the fearful danger you are in.” This is a scare tactic. He is trying to get people to believe god is angry at them and that they must turn back to him. The preacher wants them to think if they try to run, they will be punished and sent to hell. This shows a strong focus on religion because he is trying to control people with religion. Using it like a weapon of some sort or as a hypnotic device. However, this guy screaming about religion is not the last
This is one of the longer minor prophets, having 14 chapters, most of which are dealing strictly with the ungodliness of Israel as a nation, but the final chapter seems to me that Israel did change their ways and repent to some extent. We do see that God will forgive them, but that does not mean that the consequences for their
The book seems to be the wisdom of experience coming from someone looking back and reflecting on their life and wishing to warn the next generation. To advise the reader or listener that whatever their earthly pursuit outside of God will end in emptiness, even disaster, but then calls the individual back to hope if the focus is on living for Him.
Then it is told that, ?he will do one of two things/he will admit to everything/or he'll say he's just not the same,? which is meaning he might come out and say he needs help and stay, or he might leave and never return. The last verse ends with, ?and you'll begin to wonder why you came,? once again, any which way telling us that even at the end of the conversation he is doubting his skills to help the youth.