Friday, May 24, 2019

Weak People in the Bible

Regard For Those Who Are Weaker In Society Written in Torah are lessons and stories about how deity created Earth, animals, plants, day and night, the sun, and also how deity created man to dominate over all living things. Within Torah is a story of Abram and his relationship with God. Abram or Abraham had a covenant with God. God promised to bless the nation and Abraham. Abraham had no rules or law to quest for he simply had to ware faith in God and believe in him. God said to Abraham You shall be the ancestor of nations.No longer shall your name be Abram but your name shall be Abraham for I have made you the ancestor of nations. I go forth make you exceedingly fruitful and I will make nations of you, and kings shall come from you. I will establish my covenant between me and you, and your offspring after you end-to-end their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your offspring after you. And I will give to you, and to your offspring after you, all th e land of Canaan, for a perpetual memory and I will be their God (Genesis 174-8).The covenant between Abraham and God said that Abraham was blessed and so his descendants shall be blessed, so they were. Moses, whizz of Abrahams descendants, was spoken to by God and he was told to go into Egypt and rescue the Israelites from slavery. Moses did what God had asked of him and rescued the Israelites they were weak, poor and in bad shape. God had leniency on them and he heard their cries and helped. He made another covenant and this time it was a bit different. He promised to make the Israelite his treasured people if they would agree to follow and keep his commandments.This was good for the Israelites because they came from a place where times were hard and God saved them and made them his people. Torah instructs the Israelites to follow the laws given to them through the covenant between themselves and God. morally the Israelites are to treat others as they would like to be treated. They were once slaves to the Egyptians and treated very poorly. The Israelites should have lenity on others less privileged because God had mercy on them. When Moses was leading the Israelites out of Egypt they were not completely grateful.They complained to Moses. The Israelites said If only we had died by the land of Egypt, when we sat by the fleshpots and ate our fill of bread for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger (Exodus 163). With the complaints and cries from the Israelites, God sent them bread to eat and gave them only one rule. They were not to take more than a days worth of bread at a time. Even though God gave the Israelites laws he still had mercy on them and helped them when they cried out.The laws were a test of faith and trueness between God and the Israelites. God helps those in need, when they are really in need of help. Since the Torah is written to the Israelites it should be read as a lesson and the lessons shou ld be taken into consideration to the readers. There are many commandments that the Israelites are instructed to follow. A lot of them have to do with attachment for those who are weaker in society. Just like God had mercy on the Israelites, the Israelites should have mercy on others because they once were the weaker persons in society.

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