The Most Important Commandments Of An Idol

In the Old Testament, the Israelites were seen as people who failed to listen to God’s commandments. Despite knowing beforehand that they would be punished for their disobedience, they still continued to commit sin. God tried to deter their misbehavior by promising them many blessings, but it worked to no avail. Due to the insubordination of the Israelites, He made sure that the promises He made to them would be withheld and that they would face consequences.

    Before the Holocaust, Elie Wiesel’s faith in God was incredibly strong. He was so dedicated to his religion that he would go behind his father’s back. At the age of 13, Elie was denied the request to have a master guide him deeper into his Kabbala studies. When his father refused, saying Elie was “too young”, he found a master within Moishe the Beadle. They

Faith is like a little seed; if you think about the positive aspects of a situation, then it will grow, like a seed grows when you water it. However, if the seed does not receive water anymore, it will die, which serves as a parallel to the horrors and antagonism of the concentration camps that killed Elie’s faith. After the analysis of the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, the reader can visualize the horrors and slaughter of millions of innocent people that occurred in concentration camps. Throughout the book, Wiesel explains how his faith in God was tested, as he was forced to leave his home, separated from his family, and observed the death all around him; he even witnessed children being thrown into huge ditches of fire alive. Elie felt abandoned, betrayed, and deceived by the God that he knew who was a loving and giving God. It was then he started to doubt His existence. Elie tried to hold on to his faith, but the childhood innocence had disappeared from within him, and he lost his faith in God completely.

Elialde author of The Sacred and the Profane introduces a new model of the sacred and the profane. Elialde’s model is meant to be universal, therefore meant to be appropriate for any recognized religion. David Carrasco author of Religions of Mesoamerica and Kay Almere Read and Jason J. González authors of Mesoamerican Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Heroes, Rituals, and Beliefs of Mexico and Central America, discuss their interpretation of the Mesoamerican religion although their views on the Mesoamerican religion differs in some aspects when compared to Eliade’s model of the sacred and the profane there are a few noticeable similarities between both views.

The Exegetical Task: Some parts of the Bible call for time and patient revision to understand. Some people find help in Bible dictionaries, commentaries and Bible handbooks (Fee/Stuart p189). Fee and Stuart feels that everyone needs to understand both the prophets’ era and the context of a single oracle (Fee/Stuart p190). The words spoken by the prophets at a variety of times and places are written down without any indication as to where one oracle ends and another begins (Fee/Stuart p193). The prophets employed an assortment of literary forms. 3 of the most common are: “The lawsuit”, God is portrayed as the plaintiff, prosecuting attorney and judge against the defendant, Israel (Fee/Stuart p194). The Woe, Woe oracles implicitly or explicitly contain an announcement of distress, the reason for distress and a prediction of doom. “The promise”, This contains an allusion to the future, a mention of radical change and blessing (Fee/Stuart p195). Hermeneutical Suggestions: What is God’s word to us through these inspired oracles, spoken in another time to God’s people? Once we understand what God said to them then, we will hear it again in our own surroundings (Fee/Stuart p199). The prophets’ messages were concentrated on the near rather than the distant future (Fee/Stuart p200). Sometimes the New Testament makes reference to Old Testament passages that don’t seem to refer to what the New Testament says they do

Elie has not stopped believing in God. But, for him, the God whom he loved and adored has been hung and executed. His innocent

In the camps, Elie’s faith was not shaken immediately even though he was quickly exposed to many atrocities. People around him took the evil as a punishment for some unknown crime the Jewish people had committed before God. In the face of all the suffering, Elie noted a feeling of guilt for those in his camps because of how they did not protest and fight back as much as he believed they could have. Others that did not feel as guilty believed that God had a good reason for punishing the Jews. They thought it must be a test, “God is testing us. He wants to find out whether we can dominate our base instincts and kill the Satan within us. We have no right to despair. And if he punishes us relentlessly, it 's a sign that he loves us all the more” (Wiesel, 42). The faith of the Jewish people helped to delay the revolution that might have erupted in the camps. The younger people felt it would be better to die fighting than to go like lambs to the slaughter. They had knives and a strong will. But their elders reminded them, “ ‘You must never lose faith, even when the sword hangs over your head. That 's the teaching of our sages . . .’ ” (Wiesel, 29). The younger people were willing to respect the faith of the elders as long as the elders were willing to accept God 's

On the other hand people say that Jews still think god is true because of all that he has done to help them out. For example, “some talked of god, of his mysterious ways, of the sins of jewish people, and of their future deliverance”. However, Elie’s response to this is, “But i had ceased to pray” (Wiesel 42). This means that his faith in God has changed during his experience even though the faith of others has not

Elie expounds, “For the first time, I felt anger rising within me. Why should I sanctify His name? The Almighty, the eternal and terrible Master of the Universe, chose to be silent” (33). Elie’s dark void becomes aggravated and commences the peril of the heavens he used to believe in; his own mind becomes murky by the horrific atmosphere he has to face everyday. Elie truly has found God to not be of any assistance to him and holds God accountable for the degradation of his humanity and soul.

Upon his arrival Elie witnessed the horror of watching a truck full of children being thrown into the flames. This was such a traumatic vision that Elie found himself questioning God and becoming angry at his lack of presence. “For the first time, I felt anger rising within me. Why should I sanctify His name? The Almighty, the eternal and terrible Master of the Universe, chose to be silent. What was there to thank him for?” (33). Elie was so distraught by the situation that he began to question what he was once entirely devoted to. He questioned it so much that he began to distance himself from the base of his

The dedicatory statues from the Abu Temples is a small example of how the Mesopotamian people express their level of respect for gods even through art. Looking at these statues you will easily notice that their eyes are wide open and they are gazing up which seems to be looking at a higher existence or entity. These figures seem so humbled and their posture seems as if they are in the presence of something divine. This piece is an example of how they viewed their gods and looking at these statues they just seemed in awe and afraid so the existence of god is probably very intimidating and scary so this was probably a person that you did not wanna be on his bad side and betray him and in the story of the man praying before his god this probably explains why the man was so ashamed of betraying his god because the gods owe us nothing and these gods could easily put away with anyone and cause you suffering

Dennis Bratcher provides insight on the ethics of the prophets in his article entitled Social Ethics in the Prophets. In this article Bratcher gives the reader some general information regarding the prophets before discussing in greater detail the theological foundation of the prophets and social ethics as it pertains to the prophets. Today, we understand that the torah and the prophetic traditions existed side by side in Israel’s religious life. They were both expressions of what the people had come to understand about God and how they should respond to God.

In discussions of our susceptibility of delusions and false beliefs, Plato argues that humans can choose whether they want to follow the false beliefs in the darkness, or go into the light by facing all aspects of reality with honesty. Bacon’s argue is similar to Plato’s and Bacon combines the four mistakes of human nature into four different idols. Idol of the tribe, cave, marketplace, and theater. Although Plato and Bacon claim that we are susceptible to delusions and false beliefs, I claim that the truth is distorted by human understanding and people are teaching the distorted truth to other people, so people become blinded when they go from the darkness, the bad, to the light, or the good.

When saying this it refers to the jews guarding against pagan idol worship. Eventually they gave in to this sin little by little, as well as losing sight for God’s purpose for them. It was at this time Malachi was sent to guide God’s people into a more pure and faithful life. Malachi also revealed the spiritual as well as moral shortcomings of priests and everyday people were somewhat alike.

Idols of the tribe do the most damage to man’s outlook of the world because man tends to make decision’s based on his emotions rather than logic. Man tends to do things without thinking of the consequences. For example, one kill’s his or her mother because of they were angry of how they treated them as a child. That person didn’t think of the consequences before they killed their mother or father and now they are facing life in prison. Also, man tends to do things in the heat of the moment. For example, one