Almighty God Driving People from Their Homes

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Biologically speaking, humans have a natural tendency to desire and create homes. This fostered the creation of many different types of home-like environments, including places, kingdoms and religious and non-religious indigenous customs. However, the wickedness of human indiscretion and the propagation of God’s prophecy, provide compelling reasons for human’s removal from their homes. Thus, I agree that humans are consistently trying construct homes, but God does not continually remove people from their homes. Rather, his involvement with removing humans from their homes is when God wishes to restore his place at the center of the household, which is seen in Genesis, Exodus, and both books of Samuels.

In Genesis, the focus is on the creation of earth and how human actions caused God to begin this cycle of movement into and out of the home. For instance, Adam and Eve are placed on this earth in the home that God provides for them, the Garden of Eden, but they squander this opportunity by eating the forbidden fruit. Adam and Eve are kicked out of the Garden of Eden because of their disobedience to God. In this case, God created a home like environment for Adam and Eve, but the second they break their promise with God they center the home on themselves. Suddenly, they can see how naked they are, and the focus shifts from God to the material world. Thus God has no choice, but to remove them and cast them out onto the earth. He moves people out of one home, but into another home-like environment on earth, where God encourages its success through procreation. Another instance in Genesis is when God threatens to unleash a flood to destroy human kind for its corrupt behavior. This essentially means God wants to remove h...

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...ings, “calamity” to his house in the form of Absalom’s coup d’état (2 Samuel). David is still righteous and has God at the heart of his nation, so he prevails against Absalom and reclaims the throne, his home. This is the final exemplar where one can see how corruption and God’s role in the “home” interplay to create power struggles, such as the on between David and Absalom.

Overall, human depravity and the proliferation of God’s prophecy offer substantial motivation for God’s desire to relocate humans from their homes. It is obvious that human’s follow their instincts and make homes, but God does not continually move humans as if without conviction. The purpose of his participation is to reinstate his role as the core of the home, which is seen in Genesis, Exodus, and both books of Samuel.

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The Bible: Genesis, Exodus, 1 Samuel and 2 Samuel

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