Job 38-42: The Believer That Returns To Believe

Job has stopped to believe in God. He has given up his will and power to keep hope and faith on God. But then God shows himself and talks with Job, and reveals all that he has done in the earth. This part where Job had given up on something and suddenly starts to believe in it again reminds me of some events that sometimes happen in life. For example you are rooting for a team in a soccer match that is really losing badly. Then you give up on that team and think that the team will lose and there is nothing to do about it, so you turn your TV off. Then when you go to school or to work your friends tell you that your team won, and then you start having faith again and tell yourself that next time you will not turn the TV off. I think that Job got the same teaching from the event with God so he will never give up on God again. Then God punishes the friends that have tried to bring Job up. I did not really understand why God punished them? Or if he just punished them for not convincing him into turn him back into believing in God? In any case I thought this to be kind of unjust because His friends where the ones that were with him in the good and bad times and now they are being punished.

Job 1-10: Are Any Punishments Good?

God has to prove his servants and favored ones to see if they will really follow him trough the hard times. We have seen in past book of the Bible that God has tested his favorites like in the case of Abraham. God told Abraham that he had to kill his son and Abraham was about to kill him when an angel stopped him. Now God starts to test Job to see or proof that he can trust him. Of course God is also tempted by Satan to give these curses to Job, but I think this also will serve to God as a test. Job, on all the curses that God sent down on him, did not curse God and disrespect him. When God sent down a disease onto Job, Job gave up his fight and strength. Job started to stop wanting to live and to curse God. This part really reminded me of a movie that I don’t really remember how it is called, but a female boxer is left on a bed for live due to the outcome of a fight. She tries several times to commit suicide by biting her tongue, but fails. Finally her coach disconnects her because she asked him to and she dies. Job has a similar life to this he says that he has to stay at bed all day and he kind of loses hope. For me hope is the one thing that can’t and should never be lost. Without hope then you don’t have anything to live for. Finally we see that Job has very good friends that try to convince him of changing and to still hope for life and to don’t give up on God. They give him moral support and tell him things like “Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth” Job 5, 17 this quote really symbolized for me not like a correction, but a teaching. For example if you are soccer player and an important player like Messi corrects you, you don’t take it like a reprimand, but more like a teaching from the master at the subject. The same happens with God. He is the ultimate goodness and love so if he punishes you, you should take it more like a teaching to be good

Obama Acceptance Speech

Obama in his acceptance speech uses a combination of the three forms of rhetoric. He evokes pathos when he refers to the people that are suffering from the presidential labor of George Bush and from the economical crisis. He uses logos to blame and to state facts that McCain has done or that Bush has done. He also uses ethos to tell the people that they are a better nation than what they have now, and shouldn’t be suffering what they are suffering with economics and the presidential work.




Ethos: “America we are a better country than this.”
“We love this country too much to let there happen what happened in the last 8 years”
“It is time for us to change America”
“We democrats have a very different measure of progress; we measure with jobs, average income, economy that honors dignity of work”


Pathos: “A man in Indiana has to pack up equipment that he has worked on for 20 years and watches it shipped up to China”
“Man who knew that plant was closing up but still worked because he knew that they needed that”
“Mom that worked on night shifts so we could go to school”


Logos: “McCain supports Bush 90% of the time”
“McCain has said that we have become a nation of whiners”


Forensic: “Failure to respond, direct result of broken policies in Washington and failed policies of George W Bush.”

Samuel 2: Respect Towards The Lord

Throughout the second book of Samuel we see that David is a wise king. One clear example of this is that he doesn’t require the blood of his enemies shed, in the contrary when his servants kill his enemies in a brutal way he is smites them. For me death can mean two things one is body death and the other spiritual death. Spiritual death could be for example if they kidnap you and they take away from you some rights of liberty and emotion. For me if you take away from someone their liberty and emotions their soul is dead. Something that was used very commonly throughout this story is “and they smote him under the fifth rib.” Samuel 2 4,6 At first I didn’t really realize why under the fifth rib, but then I started searching for my fifth rib and I realized that it wan near the heart, so this meant that when they smote them under the fifth rib they hit the heart. This could also mean that their soul was killed. One theme that was clearly represented was the theme of respect. This was surely shown when “Uzzah put forth his hand to the ark of God” Samuel 2 6,6 and then God killed him for touching the sacred ark. This shows how sacred and important God’s ark was. Sometimes I think that as generations pass the punishments become less severe. Before people were put to death if they stole or killed but today they are just sentenced to jail that for me is better than to be dead. Sometimes I wonder if I would be in jail or in another place different if I lived in the past.

Samuel 1: Invincible With God

When David fought with the Philistine named Goliath everyone thought that Goliath would easily win against David. I think that the bible is trying to give us the message that everything in the eyes of God is possible. We already saw something that had all odds against it and even though it happened that was when Abraham and Sarah had a son when they were around 99 years old. This may seem very improbable, but it did happen in the bible. Also David defeated Goliath that was also a very improbable task to accomplish. Even today we see that some miracles happen. When a person is very sick and the doctors have told that person that he will certainly die, we see that sometimes they survive and the only thing that could have saved that person is God. Also we can interpret this win of David as the power of God will always be greater than any of any man. If you have God on your side you will be invincible and have all the power on your side. Another theme that was expressed trough this book of Samuel is the theme of forgiveness. We see that couple of times David has Saul in his hands and could have easily “smitten”Samuel1 30,1 him, but he doesn’t and leaves him at the fate of God. Sometimes it is harder to forgive than anything else in your life. If someone steals from you something that is very valuable and you find out you will be mad. If you get the chance you will steal something back from him, but imagine that you do not steal his valuable item. It would be really hard because he has done the same thing for you and David did it when forgiving Saul’s live.

Exodus 22-35: The Other Side

Throughout Exodus we can see that God shows his hard and feared side. We see at the beginning that he unleashes his wrath in the Egyptians, but as I read this I notice that God shows his vengeful side. When he gives his twelve commandments he threats people that do not follow his laws with death. In today’s society we can see something similar with our judicial system. When people do not follow the law they are put to jail, what in the time of Moses would be equal to death, but death is a very drastically measurement. What happens if you were taken back to that time and without knowing what you are doing you sin? Will you die? This also brings us to a discussion we have today that is if the death sentence is human enough. Personally I don’t like the idea of someone being sentenced to death I think it is a bit barbarian and inhuman, but sometimes people are very bad and sometimes kind of deserve this sentence. God shows that he is partidary to the people that favor him, “but if thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine adversaries.” Exodus 23, 24 Sometimes when I fight with someone and a third person has to intervene and he or she doesn’t favor me I sometimes tend to think that they are partidary of the other person. God also does this to his favorite ones like Moses. We tend to think that God will be impartial and that every aspect of him will be perfect, but here we see his hard and punishing face.

Exodus 16-22: God Our Leader And Savoir

Here we are brought up with the theme of trust. The people of Israel start talking against Moses and Aaron. This was all because they were hungry and were in the wilderness. This brought up in my mind a question. What would I do if I were a person of Israel and was being led by Moses and Aaron? What I would do is to wait and trust them for some while, but if I see that things are getting really bad and we are far away from salvation if we keep following them I would part ways and look for another place. Finally God sends down mana from the heavens. This really shows a direct relationship between humans and God. Humans depend on God. This is clearly seen here because these people were helpless because they couldn’t find food and water and God heard them and sent down mana. Without God we would probably die because he gives us protection and everything we have is thanks to him. The water, the cattle, everything in the world belongs to him because he created this. Also I think God uses the humans as messengers. The people we have seen so far that are the destined one or God’s favorites to spread the word and be safe are: Abraham, Noah, and Moses. Sometimes I wander how would life be without a God? Will we all be as we are today? We as human beings and every living thing in the world depend on God to survive.

Exodus 6-15: Moses The Messenger Of God

God uses his messengers Moses and Aaron to inform the Pharaoh that if he did not free the people of Israel that god would release his wrath on the people of Egypt. The Pharaoh doesn’t believe Moses and Aaron and suffers many consequences, epidemics, and plagues. The Pharaoh never gives in into letting the people of Israel to leave. This reminds me when I sometimes fight with my sister over something for example the channel that we are going to watch in TV and no one wants to give in. So a third force in the bibles cases God and in my case my Mom intervenes and choose one side to win over the other. When we fight for it since no one wants to give in we may lose privileges and things. This can be exactly what happened in the bible but with different characters and different settings. The Pharaoh didn’t give in and many of his people, his cattle, and his land were affected. This seems also like a matter of a person’s fight over dignity. The Pharaoh always seems to surrender to the power of the Lord but he tricks Moses and the Israeli people and stops them from leaving Egypt. “And Pharaoh hardened his heart at this time also, neither would he let the people go.” Exodus 8, 32 This is an example of how us the human race always try to get advantage from people when they give in, but in this particular case things got worst because each time the plagues got stronger and the punishments harder. Finally the people of Israel are freed and are able to leave from Egypt. Perseverance will always win.

Exodus1-5: Are We Different?

Egypt has the people of Israel as their slaves. The king ordered the people that observed the slaves to treat them harder. But the inverse effect happened, “But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. “Exodus Ch1 Vs12. Sometimes when I am playing tennis I try play harder and stronger to be able to win, but in that sense I get more fatigued and tired so then I lose. This shows how sometimes in life you try to do something that you think that will have a perfect effect, but as soon as you do it the effect that happens is the contrary of what you thought that would happen. When Moses goes to the sacred mountain to talk to God he starts to wonder why the flame appears but the tree in which the flame is at doesn’t consume itself. This shows how the human race sometimes doesn’t believe what they are told, but they have to see what they have been told to truly believe it. In the Old Testament people seem to live a lot more than any normal person today. I wonder why this difference in years happens. Could it be that time was measured in a different way at that time? Can people live that long? If people were so healthy at that time that they lived so long, why do us live so short compared to them? One guess I could think of that explains this is that God was with those humans always so that when they had diseases he cured them and they lived longer.

Genesis Ch 17-24: Young Version Or This Version

As I read through Genesis I try to compare this version of the Bible to the version that we are taught when little. In the one we were taught when little there are some differences for example in the King James Bible they mention that Abraham had a son with the maid that was named Ishmael and then another with Sarah named Isaac. In the version we read when we are young we only know that he had son with Sarah. Also when Lot and his two daughters were in the cave the daughters tried to have sons with him to keep his name alive. They manage to achieve this after they make him drink wine. When two people so close together have sons their sons may have mental or physical disabilities. I sometimes wander if in these cases there are some exceptions or every time someone close has relations the son will have problems?

Genesis Ch10-16: How did we get to where we are

God spread people from the city of Babel around the world. They all spoke the same language and had the same beliefs it seemed “And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. Genesis ch11 vs1” I think that the world would be very different if all the people in the world had the same language and culture. One new aspect could be that the world would be very united because since everyone had the same background and culture well problems would be very little but everyone would be more like the same like a prototype. It wouldn’t be as fun because everyone are very similar. With difference in the world there might be more problems but it is more fun, more open and different. Sometimes I wonder if other worlds do exist. If there would be other worlds how would they be? Could there be a person the same as me but with different personalities? Different physical attributes? I also sometimes think that if there is this other parallel world it would be good because due to this global warming and that the earth will no longer be livable in, it would be good because we can go and live in this other place which will be habitable.

Cycle Of Human Destiny

God and Adam

God and the human communicate
And God tells him not to eat from the tree of knowledge.
The human, as always is defying and ate.
And God got mad with human and left his life hanging on an edge.

The human was helpless without him,
And started to try to regain trust,
But God was still mad and therefore ignored him.
The human started to rust

And after some while his generations also started to die.
After the world started also to disappear,
And the remaining humans had to look for another earth to not die
But they couldn’t find it and passed away, and in another place appeared.

Genesis Ch 3-9: The Salvation And Temptation Of Humanity

Cain and Abel is a story that can have many meanings. One that one can kill from jealousy because “The LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering.” Genesis 3 and Cain “slew” Genesis 3 Abel. Another meaning this story can have is the fight between two kinds of persons that are supposed to be the same and come from the same mother. This can be found present in some families where the siblings don’t get along very well and the family is not too close together. Also this story could show how the human race is destroying itself. The life span of people before was very great they all lived past the 100 years which today ii is very rare to see a person that is past 100 years old. I think as generations pass life span will continue to decrease due to global warming, the loss of water, and the fact that the air would be less available. I think that as time passes health conditions will improve until some point were medicine studies reach their highest point but then will start to decrease because food will not be able to feed everyone, and other effects of global warming. I think it is very hard to have to destroy a creation you have made and are very proud of because you have put a lot of time and effort into it to just see that it didn’t work. I think that happened to God when he saw that the earth was filled with violence and had to destroy everything in it with a flood except (Noah’s ark). Sometimes you are doing something and then having to undo it is when you are going to hand in a project for a class. You work hard and give it a good effort but when you are going to turn it in the teacher says it is wrong and you have to destroy it and do another one all over again.


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The Birth Of A New World: Genesis 1-2

The Making Of King James Bible Ch 11

When they were making of the King James Bible they started by gathering intellectuals from the entire kingdom to redact the bible. One of them was Bois, who was not interested in the “money”pg205 but he was more interested in the knowledge. I really think this is a state where you need to really love your job to stop being interested in the money than the job. Without the money you can’t live because you won’t get food and the basic goods. One life that seems similar to this life is the life of a sport player. This player risks all in life to try to get to be player in the professional status, but first he has to drop out of school to concentrate on this sport. Sometimes I ask myself: What will happen to him if he fails? What will happen if he gets an injury? His life is in constant risk but he tries his best to accomplish his goals and can sometimes make them.

The Making Of King James Bible Ch 10

England was at the moment in a time of peace where the drastic rebels were in a neutral state. In that circumstances came the dilemma of to choose the “pope”pg173 or “the king”pg173. I think that the world has always had that struggle to choose the state or the church. It is like being said to choose between your mom and your dad, you can have stronger bonds and have more trust on one more than the other but you can’t choose between them. When the rebels mounted on the ship with destination in Amsterdam they left their families behind without money or place to stay and “no one quite knew what to do with the abandoned families.”pg179 This event in old England really reminds of one event we are being part of here in the present. When you are driving to your home or to school you see a lot of homeless people begging for money. It may seem that today we presence that much more in sub developed countries but this outcome also depends on the causes. On sub developed countries one of the main cause are that rebel forces(like in Colombia “la guerrilla”) chase away the people from their towns and farms and their only hope of life is to go to the city to beg. You tend to think that you can’t find similarities with old times to modern times but there are quite a lot of things that are similar.

Spelling Exercices

In dealing with students on the high-school level - that is, the second, third, and fourth year of high school - we must bear in mind that to some degree they are at a difficult psychological stage, generally called adolescence. Students at this level are likely to be confused mentally, to be subject to involuntary distractions and romantic dreaminess. They are basically timid or self-conscious, they lack frankness and are usually very sensitive but hate to admit it. They are motivated either by great ambition, probably out of all proportion to their capabilities, or by extreme laziness caused by the fear of not succeeding or attaining their objectives. Fundamentally they want to be kept busy but they refuse to admit it. They are frequently the victims of earlier poor training, and this makes every effort doubly hard. They are usually willing to work, but they hate to work without obtaining the results they think they should obtain. Their critical faculties are beginning to develop and they are critical of their instructors and of the materials they are given to learn. They are beginning to feel the pressure of time; and although they seldom say so, they really want to be consulted and given an opportunity to direct their own affairs, but they need considerable guidance.




They seldom admit that they need this guidance and they frequently rebel against it, but if it is intelligently offered they accept it with enthusiasm. If they are healthy they are capable of long periods of concentration and an extraordinary amount of work. They are trying, most of them, to form political ideas and they have a tendency to be either extremely idealistic ( which is usually another term for radical ) or conservative, blindly accepting what their fathers and grandfathers believed in. It is in this period that students can be most easily and permanently influenced. It is the period in which they form strong attachments for their teachers. Their outlook on life is usually extremely exaggerated. They are either far too modest and retiring, or extravagantly boastful. They are much more susceptible to the influence of a strong personality than to that of a great intelligence. Of all periods of life, this is what may best be called the 'plastic age'.