CHARACTER ANALYSIS

ABRAHAM

• FORTUNATE|EVIDENCE: GENESIS 12; “2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great ; and thou shalt be a blessing :”
• DECEIVER/LIER|EVIDENCE: GENESIS 12; “13 Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister :that it may be well with me for thy sake; and my soul shall live because of thee.”
• JUST| EVIDENCE: GENESIS 15; “6 And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness.”
• LOYAL| EVIDENCE: GENESIS 22; “12 And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not with-held thy son, thine only son from me.”

SARAH

• INFERTILE/STERILE|EVIDENCE: GENESIS 16: “Now Sarai Abram’s wife bare him no children:”
• FAIR/BEAUTIFUL|EVIDENCE: GENESIS 12; “11 And it came to pass, when he was come near to enter into Egypt, that he said unto Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know that thou art a fair woman to look upon:”
• UNFAIR|EVIDENCE: GENESIS 16; “5 And Sarai said unto Abram, My wrong be upon thee: I have given my maid into thy bosom; and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes : the LORD judge between me and thee.6 But Abram said unto Sarai, Be hold, thy maid is in thy hand; do to her as it pleaseth thee. And when Sarai dealt hardly with her, she fled from her face.”
• MEAN/GREEDY/SELFISH: EVIDENCE: GENESIS 21; “10 Wherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast out this bondwoman and her son :for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, even with Isaac.”

WEEK 3 WRJ: KJB; GENESIS 1-3

When I was 11 years old, I began going to be part of a congregation, the Jehovah’s witnesses. I learned the majority of chapters from the bible, I could find the reading from certain chapters so easily. I stopped going, but now that I’m reading the King James Bible I do find it difficult to understand the bible. Through the King James Bible, we got a view of how the world was created through the eyes and words of the “bible” this time. In Genesis, it states that the GOD was the one who created the world. It also tell us the intensions/visions to why it was created. To me there’s some similarities to the Rid Veda; Creation. In the bible it also gives details on how the earth was created, the animals created, the man created, how EVERYTHING was created. But this time, it specifies, that the “GOD” was responsable for everything that breaths on earth. It says the  reason to why GOD created  everything, why he created man and woman. Why GOD created the animals, so that man didn’t felt alone. All living things will feel that they were not the only ones in the world. GOD gave conditions on living on Earth, he told Adan and Eve not to eat from this tree.

I personally do believe GOD created everything, but at some point he seems naïve to believe that man would follow and listen to his rules. As it says on Genesis 3 that Eve was so fool to hear what a serpent said about not eating from this tree, “And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, know-ing good and evil.”

I mean come on, why would you give rules to newborn human, they were just created, they don’t know how to follow rules. Its like telling a baby “don’t touch that”, “don’t do that”, and they don’t listen. If man and woman were just created of course they wouldn’t listen, they will say they know better to make their own decisions.

WEEK 1: WRJ: RIG VETTA CREATION; P. 25

By reading the Creation Hymn, I get the chance to get the point of a different culture on God. I’m don’t considere myself as a religious person, but I don’t find myself to be full of doubts in regards to our creator. I firmly believe in a “God” as society decided to call. But by reading the Creation Hymn I realized how other people, indeed, from different cultures view differently  the “person” or force who created us. And that in fact, there are many people who question religion and GOD. I like the Creation Hymn, I like how it describes the creation of the universe, giving a description, says, “the life force that was covered with emptiness that one arose through the power of heat”. Explaining a theory that a  “force” beyond our understanding created the universe.