It can be seen as the first humane law ever created to protect classes of Babylonian society. However, in the epilogue, he mentioned that he is he had been called by the gods "to cause justice to prevail in the land, to destroy the wicked and the evil." As mentioned above, Hammurabi saw himself as the king of righteousness. Therefore, he expected every citizen to see him as a figurine of God from Heaven. Almost as if he is the God dictates “The great gods proclaimed me and I am the guardian governor, whose scepter is righteous and whose beneficent protection is spread over my city…” One can say that Hammurabi is an extremely religious man who used religion to rule his kingdom.
God is described as the creator meaning he designed and produced everything. According to Christian tradition, God caused the Universe to exist, he is responsible for the Universe coming into existence and existing at every moment. God is also responsible for everything that will ever exist in the Universe. God is seen as a craftsman in Job 28, this is where he is described as the designer who laid the very foundations of the earth. God is pictured as being in control of the sun and the moon even though we know through science that they follow regular patterns of behaviour.
As he states in the Political Treatise, It appears from this that the person of kings is sacred, and to move against them is sacrilege. God causes them to be anointed by the prophets with a sacred unction, as He caused the pontiffs and His altars to be anointed. Significantly stating that a King’s should be cherished and if someone would defy a challenge against him, they
Louis XIV Monarchy and Bousset’s Holy Writ Bishop Jacques Bossuet, a French theologian, expressed his ideas of the divine rights of the monarchy in a treatise entitled, Politics Derived from Holy Writ. It was in this treatise that Bossuet stated his views of how the government was devinely ordained by God, and that is what allowed its people to live in a society that was organized. Bossuet felt that God established kings for the purpose of reing over the people of the world, and since God did this their authority was absolute. Every aspect of Bousset’s Holy Writ does accurately describe Louis XIV monarchial power. King Louis XIV reign of France was exampled by an absolute monarchy, which gave him the ultimate governing authority over his sovereign state and subjects.
However, King Shou has chosen to rule as a “cruel” and “unjust” king. In the same manner, the king God described to Samuel rules greedily, taking advantage of his own people. All of these kings have used their powers in different ways. Assur-Nassir-Pal II uses his love for his Gods as a motivation; King Shou disregards his God's desires; The king
Simony was the buying and selling of anything considered spiritual (Miller 15). He believed that the appointments of church leaders by kings, in this case Henry IV, was an act of simony because the men that the kings were closest to were granted offices. Pope Gregory VII felt that this was a heresy in the church and the ability to appoint men to high positions should be stripped of the kings and emperors powers. During the reform, the holiness of kings was more directly attacked by the reformers who insisted that kings were only men, like all men (Miller 5) which helped Gregory VII find a backing for his revolt against the
As long as human have inhabited the earth, the quest to explain its origins has been foremost on their minds. The Greeks were by no means any different. There are several variations of the Greek creation myth, but the most predominant version comes from the poet Hesiod and his Theogony, which details the history and genealogy of the gods. Here is a short snyopis of his account (his actual account is quite long so here is the story cut down to size).In Theogony the Void or Chaos existed before anything else. Then came Earth (Gaia) and Eros (god of love or desire).
These teachings included beliefs that God created the universe as well as controlled the universe. Therefore, when somebody started to questioning God as the cause of the universe and earth, people became flustered with anger(Kreis). The scientist that made these statements were very brave to keep studying and spreading the knowledge of the universe because some may even have been incrimminated from the church or punished in some way. The Elizabethans got most of their knowledge and theories from a past astronomer named
Since the sun is so powerful, they had to do a sacrifice of a God, Tezcatlipoca. It became only half a sun and this first creation was incomplete. A fight began with Quetzalcoatl and the sun was knocked from the sky, in anger Tezcatlipoca sent jaguars to destroy the giants. This God was assigned to the Earth. The second sun the Wind Sun took over his brother as the sun.
Amon-Ra was believed to be the sun god and the lord of the universe. Osiris was the god of the underworld. Stories about him revolved around the idea of immortality. Osiris was the god that made a peaceful afterlife possible. The Egyptians had many tales about how the world began.