Gods Significant Role
In the first two sections of the Old Testament, Genesis and Exodus, you can plainly see the significant role that God plays in human history. Although he was supposed to be thought of as the Supreme Being of all that is good, in the Bible he is not always depicted in this manner. But whether they are positive or negative decisions, our lives would be totally different if God hadn't interfered. Another interesting point is God's motives behind his decision. Was he just playing around or did he only involve himself when he felt it absolutely necessary? I feel that God was almost never happy with the humans no matter what they were doing. If they were fighting with each other he destroyed them for being evil and if they were working together, he punished them for trying to gain too much power. I do not think that God always plays the "good guy" role in the bible. In fact, I think that he possesses many humanlike qualities, which makes him act hastily and constantly disrupt humans' lives. God's first involvement in human history was the creation of man, earth, and all that is on it. Before this "the earth was a formless void and darkness covered the face of the deep" (Genesis 1.2). When God saw that his creation was
This is why I felt that his involvement was too much because the nature of it was not for the right reasons and it had major affects on human history. He is the person we try to model ourselves after. Right away he put a lot of faith into mankind. He decided that in order to punish humans for their evilness, he would " blot out from earth the human beings he created - people together with animals and creeping things and birds of the air, because he was sorry that he had even made them" (Genesis 6. I think that in a way, God was scared of humankind because he bestowed upon them so much power. I feel that in Genesis and Exodus that God played too large of a role and that he should have just let humans deal with their own problems. Most of the miracles that God gave to Moses to perform were in some way harmful to the Egyptians. He often made decisions based on only his own interests and on straight anger and vain. This was when he came to Noah in order to tell him about the great flood that he was going to sweep over the earth. This involvement was understandable because the Egyptians were treating the Hebrews like animals and God felt that the Hebrews were his people too and so he should intervene in order to lead them to their freedom. I felt that God used this time also to demonstrate that he was the one with all the power and that people should fear him because no one was above him. I think that maybe I would have felt different if his role was always a positive one but I found that many times his role was a negative one, which didn't always change things for the better. This changed history because we do not know what would have happened or how our lives would have been different if he hadn't acted so harshly. In doing this, God was showing off the strength of his power again and I feel it was in an unjust way. He told Noah to make an ark and put his family and two of every living thing into it in order to start a new generation of things after the old one was wiped out (Genesis 6.
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