In the second book of Samuel, I noted allot of fear from Saul and everybody. “But the spirit of the Lord departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the Lord troubled him.” It is a book filled with mischievous, fear, and war. As I clearly sated on my last entry I had no idea that the bible was this cruel I thought it was as they taught me nice and peaceful.
In addition, the doubts to God are because they know he is doing the wrong thing in my opinion, warlike God. However, my god is a being looked as the perfect, omniscient originator and ruler of the universe, the principal object of faith and worship in monotheistic religions. He is a supernatural being, an idol and an icon. Well you everyday get a different surprise and it looks that today mine is something not expected. I am starting to have doubts about the bible and of God, each book he is a different person, multiple personality God.
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
War-like God
Samuel 1
Samuel, makes god look like a warrior cold blooded one, his statements sound like if he wanted revenge and blood. It rather reminds me of the Spartans who are also great warriors. It sounds to me that the god I know is completely different from the god I know read. He is cruel, vicious and he looks forward for war. Our god or at least the one I have learned about is more caring and he is “against war”. This is weird for me. I now have a different point of view of what god is. I had never being Christian read the bible until now and I am enjoying it.
It could be that after the humans having so much wars we decided to stop if maybe god said that war is bad. God encouraged people to go to the crusades to kill in his name as Nicholas Machiavelli once said “the end justifies the means” that is what god practically said, what about world war two, killing because god said we needed a pure raze. Maybe God is our excuse
We use him, and blame him for so many things, even though as the Ten Commandments sate we shall not use his name in vane. Have you heard about the crimes committed now days because God spoke to them please! What world are we living in! Maybe god is different for all us and we can have different perceptions.
Samuel, makes god look like a warrior cold blooded one, his statements sound like if he wanted revenge and blood. It rather reminds me of the Spartans who are also great warriors. It sounds to me that the god I know is completely different from the god I know read. He is cruel, vicious and he looks forward for war. Our god or at least the one I have learned about is more caring and he is “against war”. This is weird for me. I now have a different point of view of what god is. I had never being Christian read the bible until now and I am enjoying it.
It could be that after the humans having so much wars we decided to stop if maybe god said that war is bad. God encouraged people to go to the crusades to kill in his name as Nicholas Machiavelli once said “the end justifies the means” that is what god practically said, what about world war two, killing because god said we needed a pure raze. Maybe God is our excuse
We use him, and blame him for so many things, even though as the Ten Commandments sate we shall not use his name in vane. Have you heard about the crimes committed now days because God spoke to them please! What world are we living in! Maybe god is different for all us and we can have different perceptions.
Monday, October 20, 2008
Stubbornness
Stubbornness could be a quality I would give if someone asked me to describe the pharaoh. However, what is stubbornness? Is the quality or state of being stubbornly inflexible. He made his people suffer, because he did not want to let Israeli people leave, he was being inflexible. “Pharaoh’s hearts, so that he would not let the children of Israel go out of his land.” (Exodus chap. 9) Why not, the Pharaoh does not like them anyway, what is the problem. Is it he wants for his people to suffer the ten plagues of Egypt, well it looks like it. This reminds of a movie we saw last year, with the religion teacher the reaping, but instead of analyzing the movie as we are in class, we analyzed it different about faith and religion. What I would I hate most if were alive during the plagues, would be lice. Lice is a horrible animal that sticks in your head, if you think about it I would not like any of the plagues, maybe the last one, but no I would miss allot my brother.
How can a person be so selfish and let people suffer, I would never wish to anyone what those poor people had to go through, and if it did happen to me I would be a rebel against the Pharaoh. Now days, People would kill for pride I could say it is important in my life but I would not kill for it.
How can a person be so selfish and let people suffer, I would never wish to anyone what those poor people had to go through, and if it did happen to me I would be a rebel against the Pharaoh. Now days, People would kill for pride I could say it is important in my life but I would not kill for it.
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Wo, Is Who? Confused, So Am I...
The LORD and God, are two different people no matter what said about them being the same, we have discussed this in class, their difference. However, as I read exodus I found something that was very interesting, as LORD appeared to Moses “I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.”(Exodus chapter 4, 6)
You can see, during Moses talking to the lord sometimes they change Lord to god, which proves exactly my point. They are to different people, and as they changed, you notice that the change was due to the words that they were saying. Therefore, god did not speak to Moses but was the one, that gave him the power and, LORD did to speak to Moses. I found this quite curious, for the fact that there is more to the bible than what meets the eye, which is what we have been studying but I had never paid attention. Exodus being, somewhat different than Genesis, I find it that is more profound, it looked to me that Genesis was a list of events as for Exodus, being an epic.
“And God spake unto Moses, and he said unto him, I am the LORD.” (Exodus, chapter 6, 2) what? Came to my mind as I read this part, how is this possible, I had already identified that LORD and god were different people. Then I remembered what priests say that, god and the Holy Spirit, and Jesus are the same person. Can this be possible? We have a god with multiple personalities. I now realize that god has different sides, viewed by different people, like Christians see god as the messiah, but the Muslims see him as a prophet. He did the same things but we take the things as we want to, as it suits our lifestyle
You can see, during Moses talking to the lord sometimes they change Lord to god, which proves exactly my point. They are to different people, and as they changed, you notice that the change was due to the words that they were saying. Therefore, god did not speak to Moses but was the one, that gave him the power and, LORD did to speak to Moses. I found this quite curious, for the fact that there is more to the bible than what meets the eye, which is what we have been studying but I had never paid attention. Exodus being, somewhat different than Genesis, I find it that is more profound, it looked to me that Genesis was a list of events as for Exodus, being an epic.
“And God spake unto Moses, and he said unto him, I am the LORD.” (Exodus, chapter 6, 2) what? Came to my mind as I read this part, how is this possible, I had already identified that LORD and god were different people. Then I remembered what priests say that, god and the Holy Spirit, and Jesus are the same person. Can this be possible? We have a god with multiple personalities. I now realize that god has different sides, viewed by different people, like Christians see god as the messiah, but the Muslims see him as a prophet. He did the same things but we take the things as we want to, as it suits our lifestyle
Monday, October 13, 2008
Poem Counting Sylables
The vile/ cushions/ above/ the air/ A
Weeping /the death/ of the sun, B
The streets /resting/ full of /despair/ A
Shooting/ his tears/ with a gun, B
Hit by/ bullets,/ crying /in pain C
Walking/ alone /beneath/ the rain/
Weeping /the death/ of the sun, B
The streets /resting/ full of /despair/ A
Shooting/ his tears/ with a gun, B
Hit by/ bullets,/ crying /in pain C
Walking/ alone /beneath/ the rain/
Live His Way
After Noah’s arc God decided not punish anymore, well Noah’ arc was a fresh start were God learned from his what so called “mistakes” he decided to give people a chance and let them start growing. “And the LORD said, behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.” He could not let us be animals for the rest of life, he had to lets us grow, but his way. “Now the lord had said unto Abraham, get thee out if thy country, and from they kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee.”
This is the part of the bible were we comprehend that God is the ultimate power, and that the earth is his world and we have to live it as he wishes, in order for us to know he uses messengers as Abraham, were he would show us the promised land.
As I understood it, God realized we are a superior race, but need guidance and god is our guidance, that is why we have the Ten Commandments the set of rules.
This is the part of the bible were we comprehend that God is the ultimate power, and that the earth is his world and we have to live it as he wishes, in order for us to know he uses messengers as Abraham, were he would show us the promised land.
As I understood it, God realized we are a superior race, but need guidance and god is our guidance, that is why we have the Ten Commandments the set of rules.
Poem
The Sistine chapel there it is
Up above in the sky,
It has a certain mist,
That makes all cry.
Nobody knows what Michangelo did
But it sits on the wall
It made some persons lid
And now it makes us crawl
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