Since God has set them they believe that what they are doing is good as God wouldn’t set a law that was evil and that they should follow the laws as God has set the law and he is omnipotent. God has shown that he is Good through many miracles one being parting the Red Sea to free his oppressed people from slavery and the Egyptians, this again is showing that God in benevolent and will look after the people who will follow him and those who ask for help, which is what Moses did as he was trapped as they could not cross the sea, so Moses asked God what he should do. So God parted the sea as a message to Moses that he had heard him. The goodness of God is featured heavily in the first few chapters of the bible for example in Genesis 2 God saw that it was not good for Adam to be alone and so created a wife for Adam. This shows that God is all caring as he will do anything to make his creation as good as possible.
During the time of Paul, Jews were so preoccupied with upholding the Law that their lives where devoted to a strict regimented life. Paul would assert that freedom from sin (or rather the punishment of sin) comes only through Jesus Christ since he was sent from God as fulfillment of the Law1. Jews in the first century saw this as an attempt to throw away that Law, to make it void. It is easy see how the Jews would assume that this radical new idea, being free from sin purely by faith rather than austere adherence to the Law, but that is not entirely what Paul’s message is. In Galatians 3:15-18, Paul argues that a new covenant does not void previously made promises of God.
Jews were selected not because they were the most numerous group, but because, ‘the Lord loves you and is keeping His oath which he swore to your father’ (Deuteronomy 7:8) God has made many covenant agreements with the Jewish people because they are his chosen people. A covenant is a solemn or binding agreement either written or promised between two or more parties. God made many covenants. His first covenant was with Noah. The Noahic Covenant made at Mount Ararat is a result of God regretting his creation and sending a flood, and is within the context of His favouring Noah and relenting of his anger to save Noah and part of his creation through ordering him to build an ark.
I am pursuing a degree in Criminal Justice, but being a Mentoring is my passion. The belief that God created mankind in his own image should be an inspiration to all. Just the thought of having a fraction of the greatness that is God within me lifts me beyond measure. Psalms 139:14 express my feeling perfectly, “I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.” Mankind has so much untapped potential because we foolishly idolize each other instead of praising God for making use so wonderfully. We spend so much time and energy thinking of ways to improve ourselves in the eyes of others when the eyes of God or the only ones that truly matter.
Blessings on the nation are two come through Abraham. The first covenant Is God gave Abraham the promise of the great nation. This is so important because Abraham listens to God and follows his advice on what he has to do. The promise that God gave Abraham was he would bless him, he would make your name great and you would be a blessing. He also said that he will bless those bless you and he will curse those who curse you and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.
Ps 111:10 says the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and they who live by it grow in understanding... Prov 16:6 says that fear of the Lord makes men turn from evil. Did you know the Bible uses the word fear at least 300 times in reference to God? Fearing God is good because it saves us from our own sinful nature. In Romans 3:18 it says that "we have no fear of God at all" and that's what causes us to sin. In the bible some references to the word fear associated with God comes from the Hebrew root word 'arats, meaning, "to tremble, to dread, to fear, to oppress, to prevail, to break, to be terrified, to cause to tremble."
While the entire passage is instructive for the message, the verses that focus on the nature of the Messiah are critical, for therein lies our hope for everlasting peace. So most of our attention will be given to the meanings of the name of the Son, showing how these descriptions fit perfectly the nature of our Lord Jesus Christ. In the first section of Isaiah 9 the prophet declares that in contrast to the dark age he is living in, there is coming an age when peace will reign. It will begin with the coming of the Messiah, the promised future king. So we call that period the Messianic Age.
These teachings are parallel to the teachings in the Bible. According to Exodus 20:2, God says, “I am the lord, your God, who brought you out from the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery and thus, you shall have no other gods but Me” (Naqvi 28). The Holy Koran and the Holy Bible also shares some similarities on their teachings about the remembrance of God. They both command their followers to remember God in all phases, try to get closer to Him and submit themselves to His service. According to Quran 2: 112, whoever submits his whole self to Allah and is a doer of good, will get a reward from Allah; on such they shall have no fear, nor shall they grieve.
God also has standards for man regarding morality and/or ethics. He gave us the ability to choose, even knowing that we could choose to disregard His guidelines or Commandments. In Exodus 20:6 we are told how to please God. Though we may please God, in Ephesians 2:8-10, we see what we must ultimately do to atone for man’s fall from God. “How a Christian lives their life reveals their spiritual condition” (Weider & Gutierrez, 2011, p.65).
The Absolute: Islam and Judaism Islam: “God is great. God is merciful” (Qur’an 1:1); these are the beginning scriptures of the Qur’an. This statement is made as a greeting between Muslims to reinforce their faith that God is one thus making Islam a monolithic religion. They believe God, Allah, is all powerful but God is also involved with mankind on a personal level. This concern for man was shown when God gave the Qur’an to Muhammad so that individuals would have the knowledge of how to live to please God thus providing his revealed will for his people to live by and be acceptable to him (Gordon, 2002).