Week Two! Pentateuch: The Law
Hello! Welcome again on this fabulous Friday! Eagle River is swimming against East today...and I'm swimming the 200 and 500 Free. : )
However, we aren't here to talk about that. This week was a very interesting week...not only with my Bible class, but also my piano lessons and writing class started up. I'm in the full blown thing now! ; ) My Bible class was a little harder to fit in...I had to read two chapters in my "college" book (as I like to call it). Even so, it was a great read, focusing on the aspects of where things in the Old Testament took place, and also an introduction to the Pentateuch. Such a fun word to type! Anyway, this time I'm going to try to be more brief in what I learned, and try to elaborate on what I really got out of this week's session.
The most interesting topic this week from "Chapter 2: Where and When Did the Events of the Old Testament Take Place?" was the fact that Noah and Abraham were spaced out by a LOT of years. Like, 440 years spaced out. That's almost four and a half centuries! (By the way...that calculation was made from the time Noah died to the time Abraham was born. From the time Shem was born to the time Abraham was born, 890 years had passed.) There was a slight complication in my textbook that I didn't agree with. It suggested-and I'm not sure how- but it did mention some evolutionistic time frame stuff that I didn't agree with. However, according to the textbook, the Middle Bronze Age was the "Age of the Patriarchs," in case you ever wanted to know. : )
Chapter two also mentioned some of the geographical features that were in Israel's land. Israel is located in the Fertile Crescent, which is the basically the only fertile(as the name suggests) area in the Middle East, or in other words, the Ancient Near East. There are four longitudinal areas that were SUPER helpful to Israel's well-being. They had the coastal zone, the central mountain range, the Jordan Rift, and the Transjordanian Highlands.
Moving on to "Chapter 3: Introduction to the Pentateuch," My main point here is that it is very interesting to see that people have tried to say that Moses didn't write the Pentateuch, (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy). These people who made these accusations were atheists, and people who probably didn't even read the Bible on a regular basis. This just goes to show how Satan tries anything to get people confused about the Bible, and how much he wants us to just walk away from it. The textbook came to a great conclusion. There are some parts of the Pentateuch that are clearly written by Moses, and there are some parts, such as the last part of Deuteronomy, that are clearly not written my Moses. However, the majority was written by Moses. If Jesus said the Law of Moses, referring to the Pentateuch, then it must have been written by Moses, or Jesus would have said something different.
Hopefully you were able to keep awake this time" ; )
However, we aren't here to talk about that. This week was a very interesting week...not only with my Bible class, but also my piano lessons and writing class started up. I'm in the full blown thing now! ; ) My Bible class was a little harder to fit in...I had to read two chapters in my "college" book (as I like to call it). Even so, it was a great read, focusing on the aspects of where things in the Old Testament took place, and also an introduction to the Pentateuch. Such a fun word to type! Anyway, this time I'm going to try to be more brief in what I learned, and try to elaborate on what I really got out of this week's session.
The most interesting topic this week from "Chapter 2: Where and When Did the Events of the Old Testament Take Place?" was the fact that Noah and Abraham were spaced out by a LOT of years. Like, 440 years spaced out. That's almost four and a half centuries! (By the way...that calculation was made from the time Noah died to the time Abraham was born. From the time Shem was born to the time Abraham was born, 890 years had passed.) There was a slight complication in my textbook that I didn't agree with. It suggested-and I'm not sure how- but it did mention some evolutionistic time frame stuff that I didn't agree with. However, according to the textbook, the Middle Bronze Age was the "Age of the Patriarchs," in case you ever wanted to know. : )
Chapter two also mentioned some of the geographical features that were in Israel's land. Israel is located in the Fertile Crescent, which is the basically the only fertile(as the name suggests) area in the Middle East, or in other words, the Ancient Near East. There are four longitudinal areas that were SUPER helpful to Israel's well-being. They had the coastal zone, the central mountain range, the Jordan Rift, and the Transjordanian Highlands.
Moving on to "Chapter 3: Introduction to the Pentateuch," My main point here is that it is very interesting to see that people have tried to say that Moses didn't write the Pentateuch, (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy). These people who made these accusations were atheists, and people who probably didn't even read the Bible on a regular basis. This just goes to show how Satan tries anything to get people confused about the Bible, and how much he wants us to just walk away from it. The textbook came to a great conclusion. There are some parts of the Pentateuch that are clearly written by Moses, and there are some parts, such as the last part of Deuteronomy, that are clearly not written my Moses. However, the majority was written by Moses. If Jesus said the Law of Moses, referring to the Pentateuch, then it must have been written by Moses, or Jesus would have said something different.
Hopefully you were able to keep awake this time" ; )
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