This theme is people, and God created all people. Culture is a part of human relationships that must not be overlooked. In Romans 3:28-30, Paul addresses culture and the fact “that man is justified by faith apart from works of the Law.” Paul spoke to the Jews regarding their neglecting of other cultures. The Jewish culture was so worried about the law that they could not justify anything or anyone outside of it. Therefore, The Jews denied the Gentile culture and neglected them.
The story begins when Esther is chosen to be Xerxes new queen. He is unaware that she is Jewish and she hides that fact from him under the guidance of her uncle, Mordecai. Mordecai uncovers a plot to kill King Ahasuerus and informs Queen Esther who then tells her King. The story is investigated, found to be true, and the perpetrators are put to death. Mordecai is to be rewarded for his loyalty to the King at a later date.
In Koran, while the woman was trying to seduce Joseph, he mentioned about God. He said “God forbid!” He used God to reject her and then used her husband. However, in Bible, Joseph used her husband as an excuse first and then God. God in Koran is more powerful in Islam’s mind and God has power over all things that what God said is undoubtedly correct and have to abide by. Furthermore, Islam should fear of God so that Joseph in Koran would mention God at first to warn master’s wife.
In 1 Corinthians 10:14 Paul was using the historic teaching to the Israelite people when he said “to flee from Idolatry.” Man must never take the focus away from God and place it on himself or anything else. All throughout the Old Testament there are numerous examples of social injustices between the elite classes and the poor. The rich would use their power and resources to enslave the poor. They would steal their land and force them into slavery. As a result of living in areas surrounded by pagan people, Israel’s first generation to be born in the promise land suffered temptations of the combining their own religious practices with idolaters.
He used this to convince other people to switch for a good after life, which is an important thing to them (doc 2). This document suggests that there are options to conversion depending on the religion of the people facing conversion. Muhammad respected “People of the Book” and did not force them into their religion, but they still had to pay tribute. The conversion, though, was required because they had wars against unbelievers. I would not trust this document though, for it is one sided.
I have heard their cries, I care about their suffering, and I have come to rescue them. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people out of Egypt. After making excuses, Moses finally obeyed God and confronted Pharaoh. But when Pharaoh refused to let the Israelites go, God sent a series of plagues to persuade him. With the final plague, God promised to strike dead every first-born son in Egypt at midnight.
He has to accept, Joe will never be normal again. Will struggles with accepting his brother’s psychotic behavior. Campbell also changes his position on religion when he speaks of “legal marriage” with Joe. Joe explains that marriage is simply a contract for suing one
This cultural condemnation lent itself to a combination with the Judaic prohibitions found in Leviticus 18:22 (see also Leviticus 18) and 20:13, with the latter commanding: "And if a man lie with mankind, as with womankind, both of them have committed abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them." The Council of Jerusalem, c.50, issued the Apostolic Decree (Acts 15) in regards to new gentile converts, which included a prohibition against "fornication", thus the Apostles presented themselves as effecting (among other things) a separation from pagan sexual morality, though it was not given to the church to use physical force to enact capital punishment
After reading Romans 1-8, I never would have thought you could find these subjects in these scriptures. I basically saw the subject matter based around the character of how some believers treat other cultures outside of their race. I figured that Paul was just trying to get the Jews straighten out from mistreating the Gentiles, and not allowing them access to salvations, but I know understanding that there was a correlation between what Paul was writing and the subjects at hand. Paul was basically showing us that we had a sinful nature that our identity was in God, which we should have a serving relationship with others outside our race that we should not give into the cultures around us and we should not conform to the civilization that we live in. I fully understand now how these subjects can affect our everyday lives.
The Quran says a lot about treatment of false belief. Muslims point to two core verses when discussing the matter. The first verse Cook labels as ‘the sword verse.’ “Then, when the sacred months are drawn away, slay the polytheists wherever you find them, and take them, and confine them, and lie in wait for them at every place of ambush. But if they repent, and perform prayer, and pay the alms, then let them go their way; God is All-forgiving, All-compassionate (Q9:5)” (34). This verse basically suggests that Muslims should kill polytheists unless they convert.