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When discussing “fulfillment”, Scripture discusses this term by discerning in history the pattern of God’s action and the shape of things to come. Things throughout the bible always remain open to fulfillment. Though there are times in which Scripture uses fulfillment to announce future things that are to come, the majority of times this termContinue reading “March 3rd”

After reading the chapter in Numbers, what I would say is what leads to the wilderness generation’s condemnation is the way in which the people no longer trust God as much and start complaining a lot about the food and their lifestyle as they are reaching the promised land. Also, the way in which theContinue reading “Feb. 20th”

Purity and impurity are related to being connected and separated with God. All things that are considered pure are things that go along with God’s teachings and with what he expects from his people, whereas impure things are those that go against his teachings. As described in the footnote from the article by Mary Douglass,Continue reading “Feb. 18th”

The question regarding who God really is is one that has puzzled many believers and non believers alike. It is highly complicated to try and define God as one single thing, as is almost impossible to try and define any individual as one thing. Nevertheless, God as I see it is the creator or allContinue reading “Feb. 10”

After being sold by his brothers to a band of Ishmaelites and having gone through many things in his life, Joseph plants the silver cup in order to determine whether his brothers are still the men they used to be. They wanted to get rid of Joseph because of how jealous they were that heContinue reading “Feb 6th”

In this scene of Jacob’s wrestling, I believe that his opponent is God himself being manifested to him. This can be understood because of how Jacob claims that he saw God face to face, and yet my life was spared.” (Gen 32.30). Having gone through many struggles previously in his life, Jacob had already undergoneContinue reading “Feb. 4”

Religion in my opinion refers to a cultural and social system of beliefs and behavior that follows the worship of a superhuman being in charge of controlling everything. It involves a community that follows a specific set of ideals and guidelines in their lives. Religion serves as something that establishes a morality and certain valuesContinue reading “Jan 30”

According to Wilken, faith is unavoidable because of how it is necessary to believe in things because we have faith in them and not only believe in proven facts. Wilken also comments largely on how faith is crucial in order to develop knowledge. In order to be able to become knowledgeable in something, it isContinue reading “Jan 28th”

Abraham is a very devout subject to God, who has received several blessings from him and thus must follow with all of God’s requests. After Abraham’s wife Sarah hadn’t been able to conceive a child for many years, God gifted them with the blessing of their son Isaac. It is described how the sons ofContinue reading “Jan 23th”

Leon Kass describes Noah to be the first man to be born after Adam, hence be the first one with no contact with Adam and with no memory of the Garden of Eden and the prospect of immortal life. He doesn’t carry within him the possibility of immortal life existing and thus doesn’t have theContinue reading “Jan 20th”