Presentation of the entire Old Testament must have reached a certain degree of adequacy and reliability. However, it is the essential dialectic of the Old Testament cult that man tries to save himself by his deeds.
TYPES OF GOD
He is the enemy of Israel's enemies and the adversary of her adversaries, Ex. In the Old Testament, Abel is a shepherd, Cain a farmer and Noah a householder, 1. Mos.
GOD THE LORD
The God of the Old Testament is recognized even by the kind of name that one does not use for Him. d) The God of individuals. Yahweh is the God of heaven and earth, Gen. 24:3; heaven and earth are an expression for the whole world.
JAHWEH
In the first place it is surprising that the name Yahweh is explained in two ways, not in one; because "I am who I am" and. The most probable account of this matter is that the name was borrowed from the Midianites.
THE GOD OF THE FATHERS
- JAHWEH SABAOTH
- THE HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL, THE HOLY GOD
- THE LIVING GOD
- THE TERRIBLE GOD
- OTHER NAMES FOR GOD
It will have to come when the work of God is described: it is independent of the word 58. It is a phrase that is the fruit of Israel's growing understanding that their God is the God of the whole world and therefore also the God of the cosmos.
THE SCOPE (THE HISTORY) OF GOD’S ACTIVITY 18. INTRODUCTION
- THE FACT OF REVELATION
- THE COVENANT OR THE AGREEMENT AS THE FORM OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN JAHWEH AND ISRAEL
- THE THEOLOGICAL USE OF THE WORD COVENANT
- ALTERATIONS TO THE COVENANT IDEA AS A RESULT OF THE OCCUPATION
- STATE RELIGION
- JAHWEH THE GOD OF HISTORY
This is a matter of the future and naturally belongs to the sphere of the history of religion. Yahweh's free will, which is the source of initiative, is so taken for granted that it is not mentioned.
GOD IN HIS WORKS 28. GOD CREATES THE WORLD
GOD PROTECTS THE WORLD
The doctrine of God as sustainer of the world in conflict is, however, taken quite seriously. He rules over the pride of the sea: when its waves rise, he stills them, Ps. GOD ARISES THE WORLD 91 of the cosmos; The Old Testament answers with the help of time.
The concept most commonly used in the Old Testament to represent God as the Sustainer of the world is the concept of time.
GOD SHAKES THE WORLD
The whole Old Testament is full of this idea, and it expresses it in ever new images. The lesson from the Book of Jonah is that God intends to convert all Gentiles. The postscript written to the Books of Kings gives the work an ending that speaks of hope in God's grace.
God gave them the lands of the nations so that they could keep his statutes, Ps.
GOD GUIDES MAN
The command to attentive recipients of revelation to lift up their heads to witness the coming of the kingdom can be traced back to the prophetic message. In the prophets, the Day of the Lord ($56) becomes the epitome of history, when all the past and all the future will be seen to flow together in one meaningful unity. It is no coincidence that the Psalm "The Lord is my shepherd" was later attributed to him.
In fact, as the prophets show, it brings about a conscription of all that is human, all the individual powers and gifts of the person being guided.
DIVINE REVELATION
REVELATION IN THE OLD TESTAMENT; THE ABSTRACT IDEA Revelation implies for the Old Testament the means God uses _____.-._
God makes the poor and makes rich, humbles and exalts, kills and gives life, I Himself. The piety that made the psalter a world songbook and prayer book is based on God's guidance - that piety that lives in the confidence that piety in all circumstances and at all times (Ps. 73:25, etc.) is hidden in God. , from whose mouth proceed good and evil, Lam.
GOD REVEALS HIMSELF IN HIS WORKS
118:23; sometimes the power of God expressing himself in the wisdom of his law, Ps. All appearances are verbal and revelatory, i.e._ the_ appariiio.n in ita'or:n what it sim$o&es. What is involved in this is not history in the real sense, but terrifying natural phenomena, which, because of their appearance in times of need, testify to the presence and assistance of God.
The purpose of earthly history is the revelation to all flesh of the glory of God.
GOD REVEALS HIMSELF THROUGH MEN
All three usages see a certain fluidity in the spirit and in the person a vessel - one thinks of the free infusa of Christian dogmatics. It is called the ark of the God of Israel 7 times, the ark of God's covenant 5 times, the ark of the covenant 5 times, etc. Then the glory of the God of Israel is there in the inner court of the temple, 8:4.
The glory of God in the Old Testament is a form of the divine_ presence and nothing else.'.
GROUPS AND CLASSIFICATIONS OF MEN
Even in relation to their God, men always stand within and as members of the group to which they belong.
However, it would probably be wrong to conclude that procreating children and replenishing the earth with humans was really God's ultimate purpose. In it, the flood is not caused by a corruption of the created world or of mankind, which could be called a fall-cf. So also the end of the story of the flood in the priestly account, 8: I4-rg, g: 1-17, is weak (in the Yahwistic account it is different, the flood is a complete and self-explanatory narrative).
Here in the priestly conclusion there is again nothing to indicate what the purpose of the flood was.
THE NATURE OF MAN, I
Only when it is reviewed will it be possible to understand what is meant by the statement that man appears in the Old Testament as the receptacle of the spirit of God. Then the spirit of the Lord made its way through (as through a chasm) within him and he tore the lion, Judg. In the same way the spirit of the Lord comes upon him and he strikes thirty men.
It is transient when the spirit of God comes upon Saul, so that his anger is kindled and he sets Jabesh free.
THE NATURE OF MAN, II
This last expression occurs not only in Gen. 2:7, but is also found in the incomprehensible splendor of Gen. 2: rg, still in the priest story. And let us begin by saying that td$_ means soul, with the caveat that it is the soul as it is known in the Old Testament that is involved and all Greek and modern notions must be excluded. A). Moreover, this is required by the fact that in the Old Testament the blood of a man is not just one of many things.
The most important submission in the entire Old Testament theory of knowledge is that all true knowledge comes from God.
THE NATURE OF MAN, IV
It also follows that the Old Testament revelation has nothing to say about the prospect of man exploring the world. Procreation and childbearing are a fulfillment of divine ordinance; fertility and barrenness come from the hand of God. The story of the Fall itself shows that man's punishment is the laborious nature of his work.
We are not concerned here with the details, which are infinitely numerous, but with the basic principles governing the Old Testament view of human life between birth and death.
THE WORLD OF MAN
In the inner parts of the earth lies Sheol, %xq, the underworld, the forerunner of Hell and companion realm of Hades. The heavens are the heavens of the Lord and the earth which He gave to the children of men. One can naturally question whether the angel of the Lord (58 times) and the angel of God are appropriate terms at all and whether what we have is not much more a specific form of divine presence (3 40).
According to the revelation in the Old Testament, man deals with God and only with God.
MAN IN THR COMMUNITY,
The visitation of punishment lasts only a portion of the time of His loving grace. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked upon him," Ezek. One cannot rightly hope to understand the anthropology of the Old Testament without considering these contrasting and complementary persons.
The priesthood of the Old Testament is the prototype of the priesthood of all believers.
GOOD AND EVIL; SIN; SATAN
Throughout the Old Testament, the story of the Fall plays no role: it is nowhere mentioned. There is no place in the Old Testament that suggests that sacrifice or any other part of the cult was instituted by God. The history of the word ngi, bleeding victim, sacrifice, moves in the same direction.
The history of the cult in the Old Testament cannot be more clearly illustrated than it is in this passing note.
JUDGMENT AND SALVATION
COMMANDMENT AND LAW
The scope of the commandments therefore gradually increases during the period covered by the Old Testament and includes the whole of life. The Book of the Law of Moses (this is undoubtedly the correct translation, not the Law of Moses; cf. This idea that the commandments and the law are a pedagogical fallacy is therefore an original element of Old Testament revelation.
The impossibility of man's obedience is in no way part of the Old Testament revelation.
DISOBEDIENCE AND PUNISHMENT
25:22 (and in II other passages); the tablets of the Decalogue the two tablets of the Testimony, Ex. In the passages quoted earlier that give the reason why God is testing Israel, the result of the testing, e.g. The purpose of the question is to establish the truth and make man think; it does not call for defense or discussion.
Disobedience is a violation of God's sovereignty; the penalty is the correction of this violation.
EXPIATION, PROPITIATION AND FORGIVENESS
Cry ye; for the day of the Lord is near; as destruction of the Almighty" (there is a pun on ST@) "it will come", Isa. The day of the Lord is near, the day of the sacrifice of the Lord", Zeph. It is not the individual Jew who is speaking here; this is the thinking of the prophet of God.
It is not necessary to list in full what the prophets who come after Ezekiel say about the day of the Lord and judgment.
SALVATION BY REDEMPTION
Salvation has already taken place in the past for all the people of Israel, Deut. From the exodus to the beginning of the construction of the temple there is 480 years, 1 Kings 6: I. It is a misconception to think that the Yahwist and Elohistic scriptures cover the end of the occupation.
It is clear that it cannot be the children who hate him, otherwise there would be no question of the iniquity of the fathers.
