Job In Doubt

In this part of the Bible I can see how the faith of Job onto god is being questioned. He tells us “Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him :”(Job 23, 8) This shows how he is having a dispute within himself of the reality of God existing or not. He “cannot see him” and also “cannot perceive him” These two example Job gives us make us believe that he is actually questioning the existence of God. But his faith is so great that this fact is not possible. Its like if from one day to another Ricardo Kaka decided that he didn’t like soccer. Job can’t contradict the fact of Gods existence. It is very hard. Job understands why God acts how he acts, he shows us this, “Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would put strength in me.”(Job 23, 6) But, is Job saying this for his benefit, or for our benefit?

Faith, Trusting Your Life to God

After reading the last part of the bible I saw that Job was a very faithful person who always trusted god. Even though Satan challenged God saying Job would curse him, God knew Job wouldn’t. The Bible shows how Satan acted, “And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? And still he holdeth fast his integrity, although thou movedst me against him, to destroy him without cause. And Satan answered the LORD, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life.”(Job 2, 3-4) Here we can see how God trusts on Job and admires him over most of the other men, “there is none like him in the earth” he says. This amount of faith given by a man to God is very big, it’s like trusting your life to a person or thing you are not even sure that it exists. I think not many, or not any, trust that much anyone or anything.

God Guides David

After reading Samuel 1,16-31 I analyze that David is a very important character in Jewish religion for his achievements, especially in the fight between him and Goliath. His achievements will come as they come to most of the others prophets in the Bible, they believe in “Lord God”. The Bible shows us David’s faith, “David said moreover, The LORD that delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine. And Saul said unto David, Go, and the LORD be with thee.” (Samuel 17, 37) As any other person, David believes in his “winning streak” and also knowing the Lord will help him. I can compare him with athletes who have good times and also bad times, David seems to be in a good one.


David shows us how the Jews have a very deep faith on God and how they say he will always protect them. We can see that in the Bible when it says, “Then said David to the Philistine, Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.”(Samuel 17, 45) Here Goliath has defied not only the Israelites but also their God, who will protect them. This “Lord God” who David talks a lot about is like the Hebrews father, he cares for them in every situation. As any good father, he will let his children grow and also help them in obstacles. We trust in our parents to a 100% level, having them around always and never letting us down. This is what God is.

Good News

In the Jewish society there was always a belief of a Messiah who will arrive and be the king of the Jews. This is said by God in this Book, “And when thy days be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom. He shall build a house for my name, and I will stablish the throne of his kingdom forever.” (Samuel 7, 12) Here there is proof that god will send a King to rule his people forever. This shows how some people, prophets, heard this from God and so told everyone about it. This is why the Hebrews waited for a Messiah. “I will be his father, and he shall be my son.” (Samuel 7,13) Here God confesses another great news, which means that this Messiah will be his son, a completely just and good person. This is how God gives his word.

Don’t Do To Others....

A phrase said commonly in today’s language is “Don’t do to others what you don’t want them to do to you.” God tells this to his followers but in a different way, “Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.”(Exodus 22, 21) This shows how he tells them to respect strangers, because they didn’t like how Egyptians treated them when they were strangers there. God seems to want “his people” to treat all the worlds population well, because all of them are his creation. Also God tells his people that they must follow certain rules to punish people who do incorrect actions. An example from the text is, “If a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it; he shall restore five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.”(Exodus 22, 1) This shows how anything bad done bad by a person must be paid with a just penalty. If sheep are stolen the penalty for the thief is giving the owner more sheep. This enforces the phrase said at the beginning of my Blog, “Don’t do to others what you don’t want them to do to you.”

God Helps The Hebrews

The Hebrews have a very Holy view of god. God always saved them in the most difficult situations, especially with Moses. He is, as they call “The Lord”, because he is always on the watch for them. Anyways there is a bit of separation between them and god. Sometimes they challenge him, the bible shows this “And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, Wherefore is this that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?” (Exodus 17, 3) Although Moses doesn’t have a direct answer to this, we find that as he asks “Lord God” there is an immediate response, in this case water sprouts out of a rock. It seems as though God is trying to prove himself, as Superman would try to prove he has powers, God does the same. He tells Moses to tell the Jews that he will give them bread, or water, or even appear onto them, and he does it.

After some time, the people begin to have faith and respect to God, but also fear sprouts in their minds. The Bible show us this, “And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear: but let not God speak with us, lest we die.” (Genesis 20, 19) This line shows us how people don’t want to get so close to god, in fear that they may die. We humans are afraid to the unknown, and God in this point is unknown for many of the Jews in this moment. This may be the reason for their fear, or is there another reason.

What Lord God Will Do

“Lord God” is one who will help his people in every circumstance until he finds what he was looking for. When the Hebrews were on domain of the Egyptians God sent many things to make the pharaoh let his people go. He tells Moses to tell the pharaoh what will happen if he doesn’t let the Jewish people go. After every obstacle left by “Lord God” the pharaoh seemed to let go but then he wouldn’t. The bible shows us, “Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste; and he said, I have sinned against the LORD your God, and against you. Now therefore forgive, I pray thee, my sin only this once, and in treat the LORD your God, that he may take away from me this death only.”(Exodus 10, 16-17)Then he would regret his decision, “But the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, so that he would not let the children of Israel go.”(Exodus 10,18) As any other father, as god is with his people, he goes to the extreme to let his people be free and happy. Any father will protect his son so he will be happy and be free. “And all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sitteth upon his throne, even unto the firstborn of the maidservant that is behind the mill; and all the firstborn of beasts.”(Exodus 11, 5) This shows that God will even kill to save the Hebrews. As a good father he is. Or is it that he is just looking to kill the Egyptians firstborn to punish them and for vengeance? Are “Lord Gods” intentions always for good?

Gods Plans

Important people have everything under control, at least that’s what we see of their actions. “Lord God” is one of those important people. He knows what Moses must do to let all the Jewish people be free. He tells Moses “Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt.” (Exodus 3, 10) His plans are like those that any Superhero has in any movie. Their plans don’t look like they will work but at the ends everything goes all right, sometimes there are some improvisations.

Most of all “Lord God” works in convincing Moses in doing what he tells him to do, talk to the pharaoh. Moses believes he wont be believed, the bible says, “And Moses answered and said, But, behold, they will not believe me, nor hearken unto my voice: for they will say, The LORD hath not appeared unto thee.” (Exodus 4, 1) This shows how God also helped Moses, who in this case represents all men, confidence in himself to achieve goals. How our friends give us support to continue with our lives, God gives Moses support so he gets the courage to talk to the pharaoh.

Listen to Lord God

We can see how the “Lord God” tells Abraham what to do, giving him no option, this means that this “Lord God” is the commander and chief. The Bible says “And God said unto Abraham, Thou shalt keep my covenant therefore, thou, and thy seed after thee in their generations.” (Genesis 16, 9)This shows how god somehow is the boss of a company. He gives orders to Abraham, Adam, Noah, and some others. He is trying to help them live correctly by giving them orders. He is always trying to help all men, or is that so? Well we cans say that yes, he warned Lot that his city would be destroyed, and that he should flee. The Bible says “And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons in law, which married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for the LORD will destroy this city. But he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons in law.” (Genesis 19, 14) He is always right, and even though they didn’t believe Lot that the city would be destroyed, it happened. The “Lord God” will try to save his people, all humans, but only the ones who listen to him will be saved. We can also say that god will always do ahat he says, something that most of us, humans are bad at doing.

A Helper

Lord God is a very powerful and dominant living thing. He tells Abram what to do and also makes him do things for himself. “And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the LORD, who appeared unto him.” (Genesis 12, 7) This shows how Lord God makes Abram do something, but he returns a favor, in this case giving him land. This can demonstrate how sometime we tend to rely of having a reward to do something’s, I can even say we do that for everything. All the things we do are to give us an advantage.

I can also say that sometimes we rely in their things to do our job. Abram pleads for not a fight to begin between him and his brother, not thinking he can solve that problem by himself. “And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we be brethren.” (Genesis 13, 8) This makes us think, should we learn to solve our own problems? Do we need outside help? Lord God gives these men a problem solver that is himself making them dependent in that Lord God.

Vocabulary ´s Importance

Sometimes word that is spoken in better terms or even in better tone is classified better than other writings. “The ear is the governing organ of this prose; if it sounds right it is right.” (pg 209) This statement made by the author makes us believe that really when words on sentences are well written they make that sentence better to understand and as said in the sentence before, they may be “accurate” statement. This is why the King James Bible is so well talked about around the world. It is written in the finest English, which for some people is the most important thing in written things. This means that thanks to vocabulary written things may become better. Of course that the message is the most important, but the way you express it is also important. The readers comprehention will also be affected by how the work is done.

A World For Progress and Change

All things grow through a progress of growth, this means change, which makes things better for some and worse for others. As said in the text “revolution” was going on in England, with the introduction of a sport from their northern Neighbor. This would be true, the people we know as pilgrims would decide to change their way living in England to then “struggle” to live in America. In that time people who wanted to make a change in their way of live by “separating” would be fined or locked up. But really what is change? It could be anything, from the ideas that want to go out of the ordinary, all the way to the people who want to change it all in their lives. The people who wanted the out of the ordinary movement would try once and fail, “This second attempt in the spring of 1608, leaving from the site of Immingham dock on Humber, also very nearly failed.”(Pg 178) This made me think of a lot of things. Why were these, as seen then, lawbreakers so interested in creating a different environment than the one they already had? Why were these people so in need of knew rights, knew things to do? I believe these “separatists” were against the bible and its ideas, they wanted to believe in something different than the bible. “In a sense that almost no one now understands, the words of the bible were the ultimate and encompassing truth itself.”(Pg 182) This was what they were after, they wanted to prove that the bible wasn’t the only thing 100% correct, they wanted to show other things were correct to. All they wanted was to make their society grow and make a “revolution” against normal day routine.