Comparing Thayer's Warshaw And James S. Ackerman

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We all see and take part in good and evil and survival in our everyday life. Thayer S. Warshaw and James S. Ackerman demonstrates human nature through good, evil, and survival. From the different creation stories, human nature was portrayed, through conflicts. Human nature present all through The Bible as in Literature, from people lying to stay alive for saying the truth and only the truth to get out of a situation. Characters are expressed with human nature as well as conflicts through the stories. Human nature is supported through the character God. God portrays himself as the person you want to make you feel good when you are sad. The person that always has the best intentions for you. God is a strong and powerful character all through …show more content…

“I will make all my goodness pass before you, and will proclaim before you my name “THE LORD’; and I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy.” (Ackerman/Warshaw page 136). What God is presenting is the he has the most power and that he will show no mercy is Moses forgets that. God shows power and he shows that he is a teacher “Whoever has sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book. But now go. lead> the people to the place of which I have spoken to you…” (Ackerman/Warshaw page 136). God also can feel jealous, but his power will come out with almost every word he says. “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. You shall have no other gods before me. You shall not make for yourself a graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you ‘;all not bow down to them or serve them…” (Ackerman/Warshaw page 133 to 134) God is showing jealousy because he wants to be the only one known as God and the only one …show more content…

Cain and his brother Abel have conflict and change in their lives. Cain feels jealous of his brother Abel when Abel is being rewarded. Cain;s jealousy grew so much he ended up murdering his brother. Cain pretended to have the nature of a good person and in the end he changed his mind and himself to an evil character. Shown through that, first impressions are not everything and some people will do anything for power or love. Cain truly desired love from his parents. Power can change anyone if they really want it. Moses is a prime example of this. When God puts pressure on him and say that Momas had to do better and if he did not God would disown him. Moses wanted God’s power behind him, if he ever needed to fall back on it. When God wanted humans to improve the Earth, he put them on. When the first sign of trouble came God flooded the Earth. He told Noah that only he and his family could go through the ark and two animals. Jacob was in a conflict with his brothers and he was in jail and he tricked everyone into thinking he was innocent. Jacob was in a conflict with his brothers and he was in jail and he tricked everyone into thinking he was innocent. Change also came from our perspective of God. God in the beginning was kind with the power which he didn’t really shown off and in the end he claimed his power to Moses and everyone and he was very conceited about

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