I find all the prophet’s messages to be meaningful, but I admire Zephaniah message the most. Zephaniah’s message is valuable because it talks about, “The Great Judgment Day of God”. The “Great judgment Day of God” is also known as the “Day of the Lord” and his payday. I see it as the day everyone will have to pay for his or her consequences for not listening to the lord. For those who have not followed God’s commandants, that day will be dark and frightening. Zephaniah’s message consists of the Day of the Lord, Nations warned of coming judgment, and God’s people restored. In Zephaniah’s message, it says that you must follow and submit to God so he can protect and save you. Zephaniah’s message also mentioned that “do not love the world or the things in the world” (André van Belkum). In the message, it states that if …show more content…
In other words, you cannot love evil and be on God’s side. The prophet Zephaniah says that those who choose to follow the ways of the world, consequently become God’s enemy because you cannot be friends with God and the world. You have to either choose good or bad. I find this ultimatum very terrifying because it is difficult to not love the world and the pleasure it brings us. Now a days, we as humans are so into technology and in most cases we want the latest phone out, which is not the way God wanted us to live. In my opinion, humans do not even notice when they are breaking the commandants left by God. In his message, it also states that there are consequences for bad actions. God left us ten commandants that were supposed to be our guide on how to live our life. Unfortunately, most humans do not follow the ten commandants and that’s what is going to lead God to punish us according to Zephaniah. I know a few people who believe God punishes us for not living how he wants us to by causing hurricanes or mass shootings. I do not think that is God’s way of punishing us, but I do
It is perhaps the most difficult intellectual challenge to a Christian how God and evil can both exist. Many of the greatest minds of the Christian church and intellects such as Augustine and Thomas Aquinas spent their entire lives trying to solve this problem, and were unsuccessful (Erickson, 2009, p.439). However, this dilemma is not only an intellectual challenge, but it is emotional. Man feels it, lives it. Failing to identify the religious form of the problem of evil will appear insensitive; failure to address the theological form will seem intellectually insulting. This conundrum will never be completely met during our earthly life, but there are many biblical and philosophical resources that help mitigate it.
In the Koran it shows a world where evil and good are clearly visible to not only the reader but the characters in the story. When Joseph tries to
It also follows that God, not as benevolent as could be hoped, prefers the maximization of good (2) as opposed to the minimization of evil (1). This is disquieting for the individual who might be the victim of suffering a “greater good.”
“Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution”, Theodosius Dobzhansky. Evolution is a key unifying principle in biology. Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial is NOVA documentary on the case of Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District. In November 2004, the local school board in the small town of Dover, Pennsylvania ordered their high school science teachers to read a statement about Intelligent Design to biology students. Intelligent Design is a statement that suggested an alternative information and explanation to Darwin's theory of evolution. Life is too complex to have evolved naturally and therefore must have been designed by an intelligently, which was the main point of Intelligent design. The teachers refused to follow the statement and alarmed parents disagreed with intelligent design. Suddenly, the small town of Dover was torn apart by controversy. NOVA documentary is the historic six week trial, Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School
Good, is portrayed by God, and evil seems to be what fate has in store for the
Good and evil can be summed up as a difference between rational and irrational thoughts, with the former being related to “good” and the ladder to “evil”. This is a view shared by Immanuel Kant and his Categorical Imperative. In the movie Schindler’s List, we are presented with two individuals, Oskar Schindler, who by the end of the movie displays characteristics of a man following rational thoughts, doing acts that he would want to become universal maxims. On the other end of the spectrum, we have Amon Goeth. Goeth follows his irrational thoughts, using the Jewish people as a means for his own ends.
Elie Wiesel’s the Trial of God represents the age-old question: how can a righteous God allow evil and suffering? Written as a play based on a real event, Wiesel tries to capture the myriad of emotions and theological arguments that were present. Though the trial, in Wiesel’s play, takes place during the seventeenth-century many cultural aspects overlap with twentieth-century Europe and World War II. Similarities between Wiesel’s fictional world and his life experience involve events such as violent actions against the Jewish community. The events of Elie Wiesel’s life heavily influenced the creation of his play the Trial of God.
This essay will argue that the eschatology of the Book of Revelation forms an integral part of John’s attempt within the pages of his book to form a literary world in which the forms, figures, and forces of the earthly realm are critiqued and unmasked through the re-focalization of existence from the perspective of heaven. It will attempt to show that, in response to the social, political, religious, and economic circumstances of his readers, the Book of Revelation forms a counter imaginative reality. Through drawing upon an inaugurated sense of eschatology and evocative imagery, John is able to pull the reader in and show them the true face of the imperial world and consequences of its ideology, forcing the reader allegiance to fall with either ‘Babylon’ or the New Jerusalem.
The lines that define good and evil are not written in black and white; these lines tend to blur allowing good and evil to intermingle with each another in a single human being.
The book of Zephaniah contains messages of divine judgment against Judah and Jerusalem, as well as against other nations. It addresses a rare concentration of references to central issues in the history of ancient Israel. Idolatry, violence, and deception abound in Judah when Zephaniah began prophesying. Zephaniah's prophesying made it clear that Yahweh would execute vengeance upon unrepentant wrongdoers. His adverse judgments would be visited not only upon Judah and Jerusalem, but also upon other peoples: the Philistines, Ammonites, Moabites, Ethiopians, and Assyrians. Significantly, Zephaniah, the prophet, never stands at the center of the book of Zephaniah; the word of Yahweh is at the center of the book. Zephaniah is mentioned only insofar as he is necessary for the interpretation of the text.
entrapped in a world of evil that is not of his own creation. He must oppose
An example would be the the Christian suicides. These are people who killed themselves because they couldn’t take the pain in their lives anymore. They are punished by Harpies who represent the passions which these humans tried to escape with suicide. Now these humans are being punished because they committed suicide. This is an example of divine punishment because humans in this circle tried to escape the punishments and pain that was happening in their lives with suicide but are now being punished by God because they committed suicide. They tried to escape one thing without knowing the consequences to another. This could’ve been escaped if the humans didn’t choose to commit suicide. Committing suicide is not done by force but by choice. The suffering in their lives could have forced them to make this decision but it could’ve been prevented. If the
When it comes to the secular world, one of the hardest attributes that God has instilled in us is the ability to be just benevolent as God is. As humans it seems difficult for you to love everyone and everything on this planet. Some state that it is impossible, but from a theistic point of view, if God is able to be benevolent to all and we are made in his exact image, it should be relatively same for us. One of popular verses that show that ...
"And he that killeth any man shall surely be put to death. And he that killeth a beast shall make it good; beast for beast. And if a man cause a blemish in his neighbour; as he hath done, so shall it be done to him; breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth: as he hath caused a blemish in man, so shall it be done to hi...