The Bible Passage Judges Chapter Fourteen

The Book of Judges is the hardest title to analyze as far as relation to the text goes. However the quote from the Bible at the beginning of this book in The Poisonwood Bible gives a hint as to why Kingsolver might have chosen this name. It says, “And ye shall make no league with the inhabitants of this land; ye shall throw down their altars…” (187). This quote, in the biblical sense, shows that God does not want the Israelites to associate themselves with the Canaanites or practice their beliefs, the main theme of the Book of Judges. However, the Israelites continue to practice pagan beliefs and intermarry with the people of Canaan while the Judges come back time and time again to save them. This situation is akin to Nathan’s relationship with the Price woman, especially Leah who stops believing in Nathan and God and builds her new religion from Anatole. This period in the book is when the girls no longer believe in Nathan, and therefore God, just like the Israelites after they conquered Canaan.

The bible was built on four biblical acts.The first was the act of creation, when God created everything the heavens and the earth including everything within it. The second was the actof fall, when Adam and Eve committed adultery, meaning they theirselves ahead of the one who created them. They want to be more powerful and greater then him, at the result we are paying for they iniquities. The third act was the act of redemption, when Christ came and died for our sins. The fourth act was restoration, after Christ died everything that was old within us became new, everything that was dead came alife, everyone that was lost became found by his blood. To summarie, we continue to make the same mistakes that Adam and Eve did decades ago. We put

1. Using the book, notes, and biblical text itself, choose two of the Gospels and compare and contrast their presentation of the life of Christ. Be sure to include how things like the authors’ background and audience affect their message.

She arouses the astonishing emotions from the jury in page 272, by inserting the quote, “She was white, and she tempted a Negro. She did something that in our society is unspeakable: she kissed a black man.” The jury should be astonished by the behavior of Mayella Ewell and the author wants some of them to consider Mayella as a person who is guilty, not Tom Robinson. Moreover, she adds another quote in page 273 saying, “The witnesses for the state, with the exception of the sheriff of Maycomb County, have presented themselves to you gentlemen, to this court, in the cynical confidence that their testimony would not be doubted, confident that you gentlemen would go along with them on the assumption...” This quote evokes the feeling of anger as the jury felt that they are getting used by the people who are considered “lower class” in Maycomb County. These negative feelings support Harper Lee’s argument since she wants the people to know that Ewells are the bad people and are the ones who are guilty, not Tom

We are currently revising the scripture of Romans. I was assigned Romans 15: 1- 13. The whole assignment was meant for us to get a deeper understanding of this passage. Our teacher, Mr.Handle gave us 5 sources to look into to get as much information needed. The first assignment was to create an outline that would guide us through the essay. The next assignment was to copy and paste a word for word copy of our passage and a thought for thought copy and read over it and notice the difference in scripture. After we put the word for word passage into Google Drawings and picked it apart, trying to obtain as much information as we could. Right there he gave us at least 4 sources. Our last

As you read this week’s textbook reading assignments, take notes in response to these questions and statements. This study guide will help you to prepare for your quiz.

1)How much of Mayella’s treatment is due not just to her being a white person accusing an African American of a crime, but a white woman accusing an African-American man of rape?

Toni Morrison utilizes biblical references and symbolization to depict the imprisonment of African American people after slavery in her novel, “Song of Solomon.” Particularly, Morrison’s characters each fall victim to themselves as a result of societal expectations in a way that parallels the actions of the people that a character’s name corresponds with. Accordingly, each character deals with their oppression in a way that corresponds with their biblical counterparts, and in some cases, to prevent themselves from the oppression in which their biblical counterparts fall victim to. Morrison first depicts Ruth Dead in correspondence with Ruth of the Bible in order to characterize the oppression by which women of color had endured preceding slavery.

During Aunt Alexandra’s missionary tea party, Mrs. Merriweather discusses her newfound sympathy for the Mrunas. She emphatically states, “The poverty … the darkness … the immorality–nobody but J. Grimes Everett knows” (230). “Poverty” and “darkness” denote plightful, destitute living conditions, a situation comparable to that of Maycomb’s disenfranchised black community. She proceeds to voice her opinion on Tom Robinson’s wife, declaring, “If we just let them know we forgive them, that we’ve forgotten it, then this whole thing will blow over” (231). Mrs. Merriweather advocates that the white community “forgive” Helen and the black community, as though they are mutually culpable for Robinson’s alleged crimes. Her arrogance and hypocritical attitude suggest ill-founded preconceptions of supremacy, as she fails to realize the white community’s role in Robinson’s conviction. During the Current Events period of Scout’s class, Mrs. Gates denounces Hitler for his atrocities. She asserts, “Over here we don’t believe in persecuting anybody” (245). Rather than denying the existence of persecution “over here,” Mrs. Gates claims that Americans do not “believe” in persecution – they morally reject it. Despite this, Scout recalls later that “[she] heard her say it’s time somebody taught [black people] a lesson, they were gettin’ way above themselves … ” after the trial (247). This “lesson” likely entails subjugation; Mrs. Gates verbally dehumanizes black people. She is oblivious

Lastly, there are principles listed in chapter fifteen that help keep us in the right mindset when interpreting Scripture. First is the idea that scripture used for teaching is important and we should take it seriously. It is a core part of our spiritual walk. We should not pick what testament we like the most because God is at work throughout both. Second is scripture is not a textbook, we must be careful that we do not make the Bible fit our systems, but our systems fit the Bible. This is something that both Martha and Cary could have easily fallen into with their arguments. Third, there is this temptation to say more than what scripture does. We need to be careful not to do so. I think that Martha’s argument was more along this line. She

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 MosesIntroduction

passages in Scripture Isaiah 14 and Ezekiel 28 so will begin in Isaiah 14 and will flip over to Ezekiel 28 we 're in a series called living in his presence at last week the title of the message was his presence and we talked about the difference between the omnipresence of God and the manifest presence of God this week you may kind of wonder where I 'm going to be a little different but the title of the message is his instruments his instruments and I 'm going to talk about instruments not just us as instruments but musical instruments and I don 't know if you 've ever thought about how much of a part music plays in our culture and in our society and around the world and how much of a part music is in our worship services and worship to

“…one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.” And so finishes the Pledge of Allegiance for the United States of America. Whether or not a person would wish to identify our nation as a Christian one, there is certainly no doubt that the very oath that binds a person into serving it includes serving God. As it follows, many of our laws are centered around our understanding of the Bible, and the morality that can be gleaned from it. Even in our modern time, where the lines are becoming more and more blurred, eighty-three percent of Americans still identify themselves as Christian. A common national ideology is that our country has a favored nation status with God; thus it is our responsibility to ‘sow the

Firstly, we can use a verse: “In those days, Israel had no king and everyone did what was right in their own eyes”, to explain why the book of Judges is a tragedy -- because it connects to the concept of ‘subjectivism’. Here, subjectivism means “the idea that right and wrong are ‘subjective’ or can depend on each individual’s opinion” (chapter 8 packet, p.3). This has dangerous results, because it means you are accepting evil things and it can

There are several challenges with the historical background and political setting of Isaiah 40-66 concerning author, date, time and situation of life for the Jews. LaSor notes that traditional views that Isaiah authored the entire book are held by very few scholars. More and more critics are accepting a two book theory with chapters 1-39 as book one and chapters 40-66 as book two. Moreover, there are further refinements resulting in three books, dividing chapters 40-66 into 40-55 (Deutero-Isaiah) and 56-66 (Trito-Isaiah). (LaSor, William 1996., 281)