God In Bible

The biblical metanarrative touches the storyline of the main book, the Bible, from the beginning from Genesis to the end of Revelation. Throughout the bible there are many stories that have a message and come across to Christians that relate to their life. The bible is one book with many events that tells one big story. There are five acts of the biblical metanarrative consists of which are, Act I: The God of Creation, Act II: Sin Enters the World, Act III: God Covenants with Israel, Act IV: Jesus and the New Covenant, and Act V: The Fellowship of believers. Each of these Acts have stories about the life of Jesus that has a meaning Christians relate to.

From Genesis 1.1-2.4a it can be discerned that God is the creator of all. He created the world and its inhabitants from a vast nothingness. The text reflects upon who God is and what His capabilities are through the act of creation. The verses allow that God is communicating with us. It is communicated what Gods will is for man and gives us a history of our beginnings. From the data provided in the verses, scientists can conclude as to the how and why the order of creation came about. For example, light was first, land second, and then plants. Light and land are needed for plats to survive. The passages allude to the fact that He and He

God is depicted in the Old Testament with a very bad reputation. David Lamb is an old testament professor and he addresses some of the reasons for this bad reputation. In Lamb’s book, God Behaving Badly: Is the God of the Old Testament Angry, Sexist and Racist? In his book, there are seven specific citations addressed that provide proof and evidence for those who would believe “God behaves badly.” The examples that Professor Lamb chose are: angry or loving, sexist or affirming, racist or hospitable, violent or peaceful, legalistic or gracious, rigid or flexible, and distant or near. With each chapter that Lamb writes, it provides multiple biblical narrative accounts and establishes a basis for the particular argument aimed against God.

In Genesis the divine power is God, and one God only. The opening sentence in Genesis refers to one power. That power is also omnipotent. Evidence for that is seen on page eight when God gives clear instructions not to eat “from the tree of knowledge.” This sets up the relationship between humans and God: humans must first seek God’s will. This culture believes all who follow his guidance will be blessed; while all those who go astray will find distress. Just as Adam and Eve found when the ate from the tree of knowledge, and God acrimoniously “terribly sharpen birth pangs, in pang shall you bear children ...”, as well as other deleterious consequences. (Genesis, page 13).

The first five chapters of Genesis provide not only historical information about Creation, the Fall, and the first generations of mankind, but they also describe God’s attitude toward His creation and towards sin. These chapters also provide insights into the nature of man. For example, we learn from Genesis 1 and 2 that we have been made in the image of God. This means that humans have authority, value, and purpose because God possesses these traits. The first four chapters of Genesis give us insight into how each of these traits specifically apply to human life and society.

In the unit one, choosing the Book of Genesis as my story to analyze I believe God has all the power. God all the power to create everything that ever exists. To explains his power, “In the beginning of creation, when God made heaven and earth, the earth was without form and void, with darkness over the face of the abyss, and a mighty wind that swept over the surface of waters. God said, ‘Let there be light,’ and there was light; and God saw that light was good, and he separated light from darkness. He called the light day, and the darkness night. So evening came, and morning came, the first day. “(Volume 1, page 140) God had the power to create and give names for he was the main source of power. His power is very imaginable because we as humans can only create certain

In Genesis 1:1–2:3 we can see there is a focalisation on the character of God. The ‘awesome power of this Creator-King God’ is evident is every paragraph, ‘In the beginning when God created’ , ‘God blessed them, and God said to them’ due to the prevalence of God the audience would assume there too would be a detailed description but the reader is left to decide for themselves about who or what they think God is. Genesis 1:1–2:3 uses the literary technique of chiastic patterns to express parallel ideas in detail this is particularly visible in verses

YHWH - Bible scholars have made various compelling arguments regarding the meaning of YHWH and as a result there has been much debate regarding its true meaning. Nonetheless, based upon my research YHWH means ‘I Am’ (Baugher, 2006 and Tullock & McEntire, 2006, p.66). Subsequently, in Exodus 3:13-14, when Moses asked God how he (Moses) should respond to the people of Israel when they ask who sent him (Moses), God advised Moses to say “I Am sent me to you” (Holy Bible, 2011).

God’s role in the Bible is characterized in several different ways, with dramatically competing attributes. He takes on many functions and, as literary characters are, he is dynamic and changes over time. The portrayal of God is unique in separate books throughout the Bible. This flexibility of role and character is exemplified by the discrepancy in the depiction of God in the book of Genesis in comparison to the depiction of God in the book of Job. On the larger scale, God creates with intention in Genesis in contrast to destroying without reason in Job. However, as the scale gets smaller, God’s creative authority can be seen in both books, yet this creative authority is manifested in entirely distinctive manners. In Genesis, God as

The Bible gives us a much broader understanding of God's relationship with us. Look at the verses at the top of the page. This comes from Psalm 44, one of the Lament Psalms. Laments are exactly what they sound like. A recognition that life isn't going right. That someone has lost. They are frank and raw discussion about feeling abandoned by God. They even sound a bit whiny at times.

(2) Pride and Rebellion. LAMENTATIONS: Lamentations covers human suffering to a degree of depiction and deep regret as the writer laments over the fallen city with the feeling of being forsaken by God for their corrupt actions, while at the same time acknowledging Yahweh’s right to judge insubordination and rebellion. The lamentations writer speaks on divine abandonment amid the destruction of Jerusalem stating that Yahweh had rejected both kings and priests and has forsaken Israel.

In both the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament, all of God’s actions and judgments are unambiguous and extreme. In fact, it almost seems as if he is unable to pass nuanced judgments or to act on a small scale. One of the main points of both the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament, and especially the Hebrew Bible, is to show God’s tremendous power, which both texts do well. For example, in the very first sentence of Genesis, the author establishes that “...God created the heavens and the earth (NIV, Gen 1)”, arguably the greatest act of power: any being could exhibit. However, God’s judgments are never in doubt and seem to fit into a polarized binary where God either tremendously favors a person, situation or action, or he very clearly despises

The book of Genesis presents the reader with a relational God. In particular, Genesis focuses on the relationship between God and man and “thus Genesis does not present a static theology of God’s involvement with humanity, but regardless of his mode of engagement, God is present and active”. However, the sin of man arrived into the world and these relationships were fractured. Again, God exhibits judgment, but also mercy when in Genesis three He sends Adam and Eve out of the Garden for their transgression, yet provides clothes as an act of grace.

In the book of Genesis there is no physical description of God and how he is viewed. In Genesis 1 God is viewed as only a spirit. He speaks and creates the earth, animals, and humanity, but he does not physically interact with them. In Genesis 2 God physically interacts with humans, which is shown when he moves Adam to the garden of Eden and he takes a rib out of Adam to create Eve. Since God interacts physically with humans in Genesis 2, this implies that God not only is spirit but he also has a physical body, and so the image of God is both spirit and body. To be made in the image of God means that humans are created to look like his physical image and embody his spirit, which includes his characteristics, such as creativity, authority,

The depiction of God in the Bible’s story of creation, namely Genesis, brings to mind the image of an omnipotent, almighty and all-powerful child playing in a sandbox. Like a child his sole purpose seems to be to simply amuse himself, and possibly acquire a source of unconditional love. These needs are in contrast to the classic view of God acting with the idea of an ultimate plan. His actions clearly show that there is no perfect plan, or if there is it must be grossly overcomplicated. Consistently God makes poor decisions, and then eventually acts to fix the situation. The whole scenario conjures up an image of the crew of Apollo 13, alternately breaking things and then patching it together