God made each male and female a person in the likeness of His own personhood. Nothing else in all creation can be called a person. Personhood encompasses individuals in their entirety, body and spirit, as rational, loving, responsible, moral creatures. Reflections of Personhood A man or woman is a person, as God is a Person.
Such personal uniqueness is reflected in self-awareness and God-awareness. Human individuality is implied in personhood. Persons also are separate entities with individual personalities, sets of values, inclinations, and responsibilities. Every human being is an original. People have the power to think, analyze, and reflect even upon abstract matters. They cannot be defined by or confined to material attributes.
As God is spiritual John , persons are spiritual. This spiritual kinship makes possible communication with God. The Bible teaches that human beings have purpose. They have an instinctive need to be something and to do something. They have a responsible intuition and an inner call to duty.
They can and do make moral judgments Gen. Persons have a censoring conscience which they may defy. They are choice makers; they can obey their highest instincts or follow their most morbid urges.
Article 6. Creation and Calling of Human Beings. God Article 2. Jesus Christ Article 3. Holy Spirit Article 4. Scripture Article 5. Creation and Divine Providence Article 6. Creation and Calling of Human Beings Article 7. Sin Article 8. Salvation Article 9. Work cited Grudem. It is absence or privation of something good 3.
Evil exist either as natural evil or moral evil. Moral evil is evil that we human beings originate: cruel, unjust, vicious and perverse thoughts and deeds. Natural evil is evil that originates independently human actions: in disease, earthquakes, storms, droughts etc. In Gen, the original creation was very good.
No sin, no evil and no death. The turn down come after Adam and Eve choose to use their God given free will and violently chose to disobey him.
Created in the image of God, man was given the risky gift of free will. To him craving is the central evil that reduced life into a bundle of painful despair. As long as there were delightful and pleasurable things, the craving would persist.
Craving takes root in the sense, in the eye, in the ear, in the nose, in the tongue in the mind and in the body. Sensuous craving causes accumulation of present and future suffering. Hesiod believes that all women are wily, wiggling traps to lead men to destruction. God keep men helpless, men then live lives of toil to avoid starvation. Work cited Rhodes. R, Notes on the Problem of Evil. Nabi and Hozeh are close synonyms. The roles a prophet filled during the period of the Hebrew Kingdom, from Saul to the exile and return from Babylon Prophets played an important role in Israel political life.
In the monarchy and rise to power of Saul, Samuel played an important role in the decision and action. Samuel was at the frontline in the appointment of David 1sam ; Even prophets who had a strong burden to correct false religious practice like Hosea addressed political issues strongly.
Prophets would be consulted about the future. They were powerful to bless or curse, like in the Moabite prophet Balaam illustrates nun Jeremiah, after many years of warning his people of unidentified evil coming from north, wearied by the non fulfillment of his prophecies, even his family members plotted against him to take his life in order to silence him. Differences between visions and messages of the prophets Prophet in the bible were not were not primarily foretellers, they in addition seeing would criticize the present wrong doing, injustice, oppression, and rich , luxurious worship while the poor starved.
Amos, for instance looked at the future often to warn.
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