The Weak Become Strong, Prompt 1
Mark Anderson
The first two books in the Bible, Genesis and Exodus, tell of the chosen people of God from man’s creation to the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt. God’s chosen people, the Israelites, can be traced back to Adam, the first man. At his creation, Adam is weak. However, he grows strong, and fathers all people. A similar theme of the weak becoming strong can be found throughout Genesis and Exodus. Joseph, one of the first Israelites, comes to age as a slave in Egypt, but later ascends into a position of power. Joseph uses his power to help the Israelites grow from 12 men into a prosperous nation. Finally, Moses leads the now enslaved nation of Israel out of Egypt to settle their own land. Genesis
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Adam begins as childish and ignorant. Adam and Eve “were both naked… and were not ashamed” (Genesis 2:25). At this point both Adam and Eve are ignorant of the knowledge of good and evil, and exist as simple beings completely reliant on God, much like the beasts of the earth. However, Adam and Eve soon eat of the fruit that God has forbidden, and become aware of their nakedness and “sewed fig leaves together” (Genesis 3:7) to clothe themselves. Eating of the forbidden fruit opened Adam and Eve’s eyes. Now aware of good and evil, Adam and Eve have progressed from their previous state. The new awareness shows the forward progress of Adam and Eve from beings scarcely different from common animals to thinking, knowledgeable humans. God realizes that Adam disobeyed His law, and God punishes Adam to farm the earth for sustenance and “in sorrow… eat of it” (Genesis 3:17). Before Adam’s disobedience, the first man was able to roam the Garden of Eden freely, and could eat of all the fruit and produce within the garden. However, after being exiled from the Garden, Adam must work the earth to provide for both himself and Eve. Adam evolves from being completely reliant on God’s bounty to toiling to sustain own existence. Such an evolution shows how Adam went from a weak creature relying on others, to being a strong individual having to provide for himself and his family. Furthermore, God Himself acknowledges the evolution of …show more content…
The new pharaoh of Egypt grew wary of the ever growing number of Israelites. In order to stop any possible uprising, the pharaoh enslaved the Israelites, forcing them into “hard bondage, in mortar, and in brick” (Exodus 1:14). After enslaving the Israelites, the pharaoh decreed that all male children born to Israeli women were to be killed. Moses, a prince of Egypt and secretly an Israeli by birth, attempted to free the Israelites by talking to the pharaoh. After all attempts at negotiation fail, Moses leads the Israelites on a mass exodus from Egypt. Upon reaching the Red Sea, “Moses stretched out his hands over the sea… and the waters were divided” (Exodus 14:21) allowing the Israelites passage through the sea. The Egyptians pursue, and “the Lord overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea” (Exodus 14:27). Thus the Israelites escape bondage and destroy the superior Egyptian army. The Israelites move from being a weak nation, in servitude to the powerful Egyptians, to one that, with the help of God, evades and destroys the Egyptian army. God’s chosen people grow in strength and move towards occupying their own
The Israelites spent 430 years in bondage. Although the Israelites had left Egypt, Pharaoh still sought after them by chasing them with his army. God accomplished the complete liberation of the Israelites by allowing Moses and his people to cross the Red sea and then drowning the Egyptian army that followed. “Around 1209 BC, Egypt lost control of Syria-Palestine in this period due to internal difficulties” (Thronveit and Gaiser).This was as a result of the events at the Red Sea. After Liberation was completed, God preserved the Israelites in the wilderness through miraculous provisions.
It is no secret that Egypts new Pharaoh was threatened by the children of Israel and his enslavement and back breaking labour did not stop the Jews from multiplying. For this reason our Pharaoh also commanded that all new born Jewish males must be cast into the Nile.
In the Garden of Eden, Eve encounters a crafty serpent who convinces her to eat of the tree’s forbidden fruit when it says, “You will not die; for God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” (Hebrew Bible, p. 15). In one way or another, the serpent’s temptation of Eve plays right into a deep desire of being “like God”. She disregards God’s command and is enticed with the idea of breaking out of her human nature. As both Adam and Eve fall into temptation, they confront their true selves. This confrontation happens when they eat of the fruit and immediately notice a significant change. “Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made loincloths for themselves.” (Hebrew Bible, p. 15). The fruit grants them knowledge and wisdom, and with it the realization that are not like God. As Adam and Eve become aware of their rooted humanity, they “sew fig leaves together to make loincloths for themselves”. This instinct to cover their genitalia, a symbol of their mortality, reveals the shame of their own transience. God uses this shame as punishment when he curses
The story starts with the Pharaoh being afraid that the Hebrews would become too strong because they were becoming greater in number. To solve this the Pharaoh enslaved them in order to avoid an uprising, and ordered that all Hebrew newborn sons be killed, “And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive.” (King James Bible, Exodus 1:22). However, one Hebrew son, Moses, survived by being hidden and put in a basket in the Nile river. The basket was found by the Pharaoh’s daughter and the Hebrew son was found and brought up in the Pharaoh’s home and was named Moses. When Moses was an adult, he fled Egypt after murdering a slave driver. God appeared to Moses in the form of a burning bush, demanding the Moses lead His people out of Egypt. Moses obeyed God and led his people through the desert for forty years until they found the Promised
•After being away from Egypt for 40 years, Moses came back, because god freed us, Israelites, using Moses. Now that we are free, we are praising God. Oh No! Someone just looked behind us and saw Pharaoh’s army pursuing us, trying to take us captive again! What is Moses doing? He prayed and God spoke to him and told him what to do. Moses just lifted his staff over the Red Sea and the water is parting - now there is a path with no mud puddles. The path is completely dry. Quickly, all of us Israelites crossed the sea. After we crossed the sea, the Egyptians followed us. When all of the Egyptians were on the path in the sea, Moses, who was directed by, God, lifted his staff over the sea again and the water came crashing down on top of
The Hebrew people were chosen as the people of God. After being enslaved in Egypt for centuries, God leads them out of oppression to the Promised land. He works through two Judges, Moses, and Joshua.
God narrative flow hears the Israelites moaning and groaning, so He emergence Moses an Egyptian to be the leader of faith in Egypt. God narrative plan continues perfectly for Him that His promise for every generation is fulfilled in the earth and among covenant with Abraham, Jacobs, and Isaac families. Fretheim study highlights the main events of God structure plan for Israelites journey through Exodus concerning Moses as their leader. God engage His divine plan for the covenant law, “the Ten Commandments on Mt. Sinai” (106). Exodus flows with several phenomena events taken place “the Passover and the feast of unleavened bread, the Red Sea crossing, and giving of the law at Mt. Sinai” for the people of Israel to recognized God constitutive foundation establishment for ongoing communities of faith (101-102). God capture Moses attend through a burning bush. Moses, Moses, God calls take off your sandals you are standing Holy ground and Moses reluctantly said this is I God informs Moses to go and demand Pharaoh to let the Israelites go free. Fretheim reflects that “God actions are because of Pharaoh disobedience to the will of His creation of a
The story of Adam and Eve describes how man was created in the image of God and how man was deceived by the Serpent. Eve was manipulated to think that eating fruit would not cause the repercussion that she originally anticipated. Eve’s actions in essence was the first sin, and even though the first sin was brought upon through deception, Eve was still held accountable for her
The king of Egypt got his war chariot and an army ready and they went after the Israelis. When Israelis say them coming they asked God for help and God told Moses to hold his walking stick over the sea and the water will open and make a road which they could walk through and he did as told. When the Israelis were walking through the road the Egyptians went after them and God scared them causing their chariot wheels to get stuck and the Egyptians said to one another “let’s leave these alone! The Lord is on their side and is fighting us” Exodus: 14:23. The lord then told Moses to stretch his arm towards the sea and when he does the water will go over the Egyptians and drown them which comes off as a contradiction which I will later talk
During this time, a new King came to power and the Israelites were forced into slavery and harsh labor. The new Pharaoh also demanded that baby boys were to be thrown in the Nile and baby girls can live. However, a levite woman went against this rule and placed her precious baby in a basket and let him float down the river until the Pharaoh's daughter found him, named him Moses, and took the baby home. As Moses grew up he noticed the unfair treatment of the Israelites and fled the area. Years later, Moses was called by God through a burning bush; the Lord told Moses to help his people escape Egypt and slavery. Moses obeyed the Lord and went to the Pharaoh demanding him to stop the cruel treatment at once and to listen to how God feels. Moses is the, “leader of the Israelites In their exodus from Egypt and the mediator in their covenant with Yahweh” (go.galegroup.com). The Pharaoh disagreed and continued to disrespect God’s people, angering the Lord into cursing all of Egypt. The ten plagues of Egypt were a punishment to the Pharaoh from God and until the Israelites were set free, the Plagues would continue. After the death of the firstborn plague, the Pharaoh gave permission to Moses to take his people and serve the Lord as he said. The Israelites finally departed Egypt and set out for Rameses- ready to follow the word of their Lord. The journey to the promised land was
As I read Genesis chapter 1-3, I was able to learn that God created the heavens and the earth in only six days and the seventh day God rested. He created man and his helper women with the idea for them to live in the garden of Eden with no worries. They would have all of the food they needed to eat provided for them by God. there was only one condition, they were not to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. The serpent was a tricky creature and he convinced the Eve to eat from the forbidden tree. After Eve ate from the tree she convinced Adam to eat from it as well. Once they ate from the tree, the knew that they were naked. And this is what brought sin into the world.
Israel had everything going its way. God had worked a spectacular miracle in redeeming the Nation from Egypt. Now Israel had a new and unique relationship with God. The Sinai Covenant came complete with Tabernacle, a worship program, and an elaborate legal system – Israel’s new blue print for the future. This book contains the census reports that Moses recorded while in the desert. The book also relates Israel’s difficulty in obeying God and describes the consequences of that disobedience. The Israelites continually complained about their circumstances, forgetting that they were free and no longer enslaved in Egypt. The greatest failure of the Israelites was that they refused to enter the Promised Land when God offered it. One thing I learn
When God is in the garden with Adam, he commands him to not eat fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Adam and Eve go on to break this singular rule and be punished, but not to the extent most would think. Before partaking of the fruit God says that, "the day that you eat of it you shall die"( Genesis 2.17, New Oxford Annotated Bible). Instead of dying, Adam and Eve are removed from the garden and go on truly begin their lives. God punishes them for their actions, but also gives them clothes and allows them to take the knowledge that they have gained from the tree. Even after breaking the one rule that was set for them, God forgave them for disobeying him and allowed them to use this knowledge to start mankind. God could have killed
The tale of Adam and Eve, an infamous account in the book of Genesis, depicts man’s original disobedience in eating of the Tree of Knowledge and serves as humankind’s first archetype of the innate relationship between lost innocence and the attainment of knowledge. As portrayed in the story, God’s severe punishment of Adam and Eve for consuming the forbidden fruit insinuates that it is wrong to desire knowledge, more specifically, the knowledge of humanity’s potential for good and evil. The resultant loss of innocence from gaining this moral comprehension is all too frequently regarded as sinful, undesirable, and ultimately regrettable. The concept however, of pursuing a greater understanding of the natures of others and oneself is not fundamentally wrong as it expresses a kind of valuable moral growth. As evidenced by further analysis of the story of Adam and Eve, it is apparent that although acquiring knowledge does
Adam and Eve were tempted to eat the fruit from the tree of knowledge because they were jealous that God got to see good and evil, “Ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil”, (ch 3, 5). Now knowing right and wrong, Adam and Eve feel ashamed for what they have done to obliterate God’s trust in them. Man suffers from Adam and Eve’s mistake; once being exiled from Eden they had to go through manual labor such as farming and childbirth, “she conceived and bare Cain” (ch 4, 1) Adam and Eve now had to go through bad harvests and see