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For tonight's blog: please identify instances of the theme of morality (right v. wrong), the theme of time/history, and/or the theme of the covenant (an agreement between God and his special people. Two examples in total are enough. In each case, please share a thought or two about the example. If all of your examples are "taken," please do contribute your own thoughts about your examples. Good luck!
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1. Most of chapter 11 is dedicated to genealogy. This relates to time, and history, which is recorded with precision. A family tree leads us through the generations to Abraham.
2. God, after asking Abraham (Abram) to build him an altar, treats him with special care. God brings plague to the Pharaoh's house, and god also says that he is Abraham's "shield." Abraham is all-trusting, and does everything that god asks of him, and this makes god feel amiable towards him.
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1. The first part of chapter 11 has something to do with the covenant between God and his people, as he seams to grant them privileges they did not previously have when he sees they have united with one language and one cause (babel.) As quoted in line 6,
"And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do."
And as jake said, the second half of the chapter is about genealogy again. Similar to chapter 6, generations of sons are recorded ("He was x years old and begot x and lived x more years and died.")
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Since Abram was doing as God pleased and as a reward God made a covenant that he would always protect him. Whatever God says is right is what is good, and whatever God says is wrong is what is evil. The rules God has set are kind of similar to how we are expected to live today. The basics like be kind and love are examples of that.
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One example of a theme concerning morality is in Chapter 12. The Pharaoh is creating the wrong doing by taking Abram's wife into his house and then treating Abram because he like her. God then plagues the Pharaoh's house as a punishment. I think that God was right in punishing the Pharaoh for greedily seeking Abram's wife, but I also think God's wisdom should have seen that the Pharaoh did not know she was his wife.
Another theme in the story is also time, which is strongly emanated in chapter 11. The chapter is almost entirely made up of who was born from who and how long they lived. A very thorough sense of time is displayed. I find it interesting just in itself that people would keep track of a family tree for that long of a time line. More importantly though I find it interesting whether or not these people are made up, its still been written down by someone.
I agree with Jake...the chapter does contain a rather lot of geneaology, which we said was linked with time and history. They are all relations of Abram. Like Mr. Durning had said, they are catching us up on what happened.
1.) In chapter 14, it talks about the many kings and the rebellion between them. I thought this relates to time and history because the rulers and the big events that happened are part of history.
2.)As Jake and Rosamund has said, in chapter 11 it talks about the family and geneology so it is related to the creation of history and time. In these lines, 10~26, it has a pattern which is always used when it talks about the family and as Rosamund said, like y lived y years and he begot y ....
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Abraham was doing all that god said and that what god thinks is the right thing todo. Out of his good deeds came a covenat.
My second thing is the history of the way things are came out of the begging of chapter 11. It talks about the development of language.
Agreeing with Jake, i am absolutley cnfused with allthe geneology...it flies right over me. Also the names of the people are ridiculous....how do they come up with all of them???
After famine in Abrahms country, God speaks to him and tells him to move out of the counrty, Abrahm leads his followers to Egypt, where they are enslved. God then puts famine ino the Egyptians pharoh's household and exiles Abrah and his wife along with the followers. They then move to what is now Isreal (they claled it Canaanon)
For reasons that are annoyingly unclear to me, there is a massive battle between one king and numerous differnt kings. God swears to protect abraham forever.
One:
Chapter 11, Line 11:
And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years> and begat sons and daughters.
11-26 all have to do with years and history passing.
Two:
Morality:
Calling someone a sinner or wicked as the men of Sodom were must suggest that people could be wicked meaning that there is good and evil thus morality.
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1.In chapter 11 verses 10-31 is genealogy. This is related to the time and history of the family that finally leads up to Abraham. Then what is in the following chapters is where he is travailing with his wife and working on his family and doing what God wants him to do.
2.In chapter 13 verse 15-16 "for all the land which you see I give to you and your descendants forever. And I will make you descendants as the dust of the earth; so that if a man could number the dust of the earth, then your descendants also could be numbered." This is the promise god gave Abraham. In chapter 15 verses 3-21 God created a covenant with Abraham to give him a promise the fact that he will have descendants and the land will be for his descendants.
This is Hunter.
1. Chapter 11 is an example of geneology because it goes down the family tree, and eventually gets to Abraham.
2. An example of covenant is whenever Abraham talks to God. Abraham IS God's special person, and whenever they talk, it shows Abraham cares.
It's already been mentioned a few times that chapter 11 is mostly about the geneology, which relates to time/history. In chapter 12 there comes up a theme of morality because the pharoah married Abram's wife when she was already married, and pharoah is punished. But was it really the pharoah's fault? He didn't know that Saria was Abram's wife. And was it right or wrong that Abram didn't tell pharoah? In chapter 13 there comes up the theme of covenants with god. God promises Abram that his seed (or his children, grand children, and great-grand children...etc...etc.) will be as many as the sands of the earth. In chapter 14 there is some violence going on, and in verses 19-20 Melchizedek blessed Abram and thanked god for delivering them from their enemies. This showed both morality and covenant. Because when people are being righteous, god will protect them. (this is a covenant) In chapter 15 Abram is doubting god's promise that he will inherit as many as the dust of the earth, because he has not been able to inherit any children so far. But god assures him that he won't break his promise, and he makes another covenant with Abram.
1. An example having to do with morality in 12:18: Abram and his wife Sarai are moving to Egypt and, to make sure he isn't killed, Abram calls Sarai his sister. Sarai is taken into the Pharoah's house, and because of this God sends great plagues on the Pharaoh's house. The Pharoah, distraught, asks Abram why he said Sarai was his sister rather than his wife. The Pharoah sends Abram and Sarai away. I don't think using his wife as a means of protecting himself was right; rather it was amoral.
2. Another on the subject of morality: this one is a little more straight forward. In 13:13, the person writing the book calls the Sodoms sinners in front of God. Sin is most obviously amoral, especially without reason.
3. On the subject of covenant, and directly related to 2., when God commands Abram to move away from Sodom, saying he will give him as much seed as there is dust on the ground, Abram does so willingly and builds in the plain of Mamre, in Hebron an alter to Him.
much of chapters 11 and 12 have to do with genealogy. There is time in the family tree in chapter 11 and the ages of the people in chapter 12.
This is Sofia...
An example of the theme of time/history is how all of the generations of Shem are listed. For example, Shem begat Arphaxad, who begat Salah, who begat Eber, etc. This type of thing appears frequently in the Genesis. I find it interesting that it's written so specfically.
An example of morality in Genesis 14 was when Abram refused to take anything, thereby showing that his moral standards were more important than enriching himself with material things. "I will not take from a thread even to a shoelatchet, and that I will not take any thing that is thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich."
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