What Does Hebrew Literature Say About God's Relationship with Man?
             Hebrew literature says that God is all loving, all-powerful, and all knowing. It also says that God will test His peoples' faith, like He did with Abraham and Isaac. Abraham had complete and utter trust in God, and Isaac had the same trust in Abraham. The question that I ask is, if God had let Abraham go ahead and slaughter Isaac, would God have been betraying Abraham, and would Abraham have been betraying Isaac? I think that the answer to this question is no, because God still would have kept his promise that Abraham's descendants would number among the stars, just not through Isaac. Also, Isaac, in his death, would have been united with God.
             God is all loving. He sent His only Son to forgive our sins, and this was done out of great love. A great number of people do not realize that God's love for humans is beyond caritas, beyond anything even imaginable. It is not until death that we can fully realize how much God loves us. He has given us everything we have, and though we try to return to Him what He has given, nothing can ever repay Him for the gift He gave us out of His great love: the gift of life. His love is poetic and romantic; He loves us unconditionally and eternally. If we fall away, we can always come back to Him, and he will love us as he did before our fall.
             Hebrew literature also tells us that God is all-powerful. He has the power to do anything at any given time. He can make it rain, or snow, or give us the sunshine of a beautiful summer day. In an amount of years ago that we, as humans, cannot even fathom, God created everything, the skies, the earth, the water, the stars, all of the animals, the human race and everything else, out of nothing. And He did this in just seven days.
             God knows what we are doing at any given time. He knows what we are thinking, how we are feeling, and everything else going on insid...