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In the bible God gave Moses the 10 commandments and told him that his followers should obey every single commandment written on those slabs. Today in

In Genesis, the first book of The Bible the Christian and Jewish creation story is told. God spoke and his Word was done. He made the heavens and the earth. He made light and drove away the dark. On the earth he created the waters and lands and man and beast.

The Hebrews served a monotheistic God, who they called Yahweh. He is an all-powerful and non human like being. They believed he made them in his image and gave them dominion over the earth. Their God was unlike any other gods at the time because he was friendly, compassionate, forgiving and all-powerful. God gave the Hebrews structure, a background, hope, and purpose. Every society needs rules to protect and keep the community in line. God gave Moses the ten commandments which they lived on.1 The Hebrews created the Bible a sacred book containing their lives and relationships with God. The Bible gave the Hebrews an understanding of how the world and humankind emerged. They also believed in an afterlife. Heaven for people who lived a righteous life and Hell for people who lived an unholy life in the eyes of God. So the Hebrews had a set of laws follow and hopes to believe in. This unified the Hebrews because they had the same goals, beliefs and obligation to suppress their desires for the well being of God and their society.

The Hebrews’ value system is centered around their God, Yahweh. The Book of Genesis describes the special nature that God has with humans. Unlike in other religions, the Hebrews describe their God as being sovereign, universal and transcendent – Yahweh is an all-powerful being who derives his power from nothing else, a God to all people, and exists outside the realm of this world. To further the gap between Judaism, the Hebrew religion, and other contemporary religions is the concept that man is made in the image of God. The description of a human being as a reflection of God highlights the humanistic attitude of the Hebrews; the Hebrews

The Native Americans believe that our world was created by man and animal. While the Judeo-Christian’s believe it was created by God. In the Native American creation story, a pregnant woman falls through a whole from the Skyworld and lands on Earth. The story continues with animals and this woman working together to create a place to live on. Different to this story, the Judeo-Christian’s believed God created the heavens and the earth. God wasn't pleased by the way Earth looked,

Book of covenant also known as the law would be referred to as the Torah. The purpose of the Law was proved that it was impossible for mankind to achieve the law and the need of Jesus Christ’s.

God needed to apply this dispensation because His people continued to sin. They used the law to live by and not their faith in God. The era of the law begins with the presentation of the Ten Commandments to Moses at Mt. Sinai. This dispensation runs for about one thousand five hundred years, and ends with the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Reading the Bible, the timeline would run from Exodus 19, through Acts 1. One important highlight is that the people of this time could not be redeemed through the law. Even later in the Bible the Galatians argued that the law was redemptive. Paul reminded them in Galatians 3:10(ESV), For all who rely on works of the law are under a curse; for it is written, “Cursed be everyone who does not abide by all things written in the Book of Law, and do them.” This scripture describes those who seek salvation through the law as opposed to doing it through faith. Remembering that Abraham was counted as righteous by faith. Through Abrahams’ faith sprouted the promise. This is where a covenant was made with Abraham. This covenant is like the Land

When reading and interpreting biblical law, there are several important features to consider. First, there should be an understanding of the nature of law (“Lecture 1,” 2015). Torah, or תּוֹרָה, is the Hebrew word translated for “law” (Vogt, 2009). Its meaning refers to ‘instruction” or “teaching,” much different than the contemporary world defines the law. Moreover, it carries a “theologically centered” (Vogt, 2009, p. 26) teaching, providing for the ancient Israelites guidance in how to live in such a way that is pleasing to God (Vogt, 2009). Rather than looking at the law from a legalistic approach as is common today, it is important to understand that the Israelites received the law as a gift from God (Psalm 119:111, NIV) upon their deliverance from Egypt.

Christian's view is " that everything that exists, including humans, is a result of God, the Creator God" (Weider & Gutierrez, 2011) . Hindu's believe that “everything has always been in existence and is a part of god” (Weider & Gutierrez, 2011). Basically, its God created everything versus everything has just been.

“The Book of the People” describes five gods; the Creator, the Maker, Tepeu, Gucumatz and the Forefathers. Tepeu and Gucumatz came together and created light and the earth to fill up the emptiness that they saw in life. The Creator, the Maker and the Forefathers came together and created all the animals and the humans. In the book of Genesis there is one supreme God who created all things. God created the heavens, the earth, the day, the night, the sea, the sky, the plants, the sun, the moon, living creatures and humans. The Mayans and the Jews differ however as the Mayans believe in more than one god making them polytheists and the Jews believe in one supreme God making them monotheists. Although the two different people groups believe in different gods, they all believe that their God or gods created the universe and everything on it. The way the gods created the universe in both accounts seems to similar. The gods spoke out what they wanted to create and it was done. In the book of Genesis God said “Let there be light and there was light and He saw that it was good”. All of creation was spoken into existence except the first humans, Adam and

Owing to the fact both Christians and Jews use the Bible as their standard for frame of reference, most Christian views are derived from the post-exilic Hebrew worldview. Both believe there is only one God and He created the earth and all that is in it. Where Christian view differs from Hebraic view is that Christians believe Jesus is the Son of God, whereas the Jews do not. This difference is one of the major disparities between the two worldviews. Because Christians believe such, they in turn believe once someone is symbolically washed in the blood of Jesus through baptism, all men are new and created equal. This act symbolically implies everyone originates from God, especially once cleansed of sin and born again.

It was after the escape, did the followers of Moses wander into a desert. Unified by the laws given from God to Moses. The laws were called the commandments. These commandments that were given from God describe

The law of circumcision is thought to have been set up in order to distinguish between Gentiles and Jews. God made a covenant with Abraham; he said that the descendants of Abraham shall inherit a promised land (foundation for the belief that they are the “chosen” people) because of his faith in and fear of God. God promised Abraham that the Jews (his descendants) would inherit the land of Canaan. The teachings of Judaism are based upon the Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament), which consists of three sections: Torah, Prophets and Writings. The collection as a whole is referred to as the Tanak. The Torah consists of the first five books of the Hebrew bible written by Moses. Traditionally it is believed to be the revelation of God to Moses. While, conventional Judaism teaches that God revealed the Torah to Moses, eccentric forms of Judaism recognize the insights and approaches of modern biblical scholarship (Rosenberg pg.32). The Torah tells the story of the foundation of Judaism. More importantly, Torah consists of the defining cornerstone on which Judaism is built and will rest. (Robinson pg. 264) The books contained in Torah are the basis of belief (Robinson pg. 279). The second section of the Hebrew bible, Nevi’im (the Prophets) is considered to have been written by people blessed with the spirit of prophecy. It contains a record of most of the important history in the years after Moses. The

God is the creator of the heavens and the earth. He created the expanse of the sky down to the tiniest cell. He created man distinct from the rest of His creation. God created man in his own image and likeness and gave him dominion over the rest of His creation. The Bible affirms this in Genesis 1:26, “Then God said, ‘Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.’” Humans were created in God’s image, yet after the fall occurred, this image was severely distorted. The image of God in us will be completely restored when Jesus comes again for His church. “Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.” Throughout church history, theologians have debated what being

The Law of Moses, or Moses’s Law refers to the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, sometimes call the Pentateuch, or Torah which is a central reference of Judaism. Of the covenants found in the Pentateuch are Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. These books contained the laws and instruction given by the Lord to Moses which establishes Israel as a nation. All five of the books are believed to be written by Moses himself, with the exception of Deuteronomy. There is controversy as to who did complete Deuteronomy as it could have not been completed by Moses in its entirety, because it tells the story of his death. While it is evident that the books of the Bible were written from Deuteronomy to Revelation, the agreement, or Covenant with God originates here with the Law of Moses.