#fypgod

The Israelite are enslaved in Egypt. Pharaoh decides to kill all the first born  male babies by throwing them in the Nile. Moses' mother and his sister Miriam save him by putting him in a basket in the river. Pharohs daughter finds him. He is raised in the palace. When he's grown up he get's angry at someone beating a jewish slave and murders him. He runs away to the dessert where he's a shepard for 40 years. Then one day he encounters God in a burning bush. He is sent back to Egypt to set God's people free. Moses is scared because he stuters so God agrees to have his brother moses help. Pharoh and Moses go back and forth negotiating for the Isrealites freedom. God inflics 10 plagues on Egypt 

1. Water to Blood

2.Frogs

3.Lice

4.Flies

5. Live stock diesed

6.Boils

7. Thunder and Hail

8. Locusts

9.Darkness

10, Death  of First borns 

Pharaoh finally lets the Israelites go, the wander in the dessert get to the red sea. Moses parts it. Pharaoh changes his mind chases after moses and dies in the process.

Charecters:

YHWH: God

Moses:

Arron: Moses' Brother

Miriam: Moses' sister

Notes:

Moses turns his face away from God because he see's himself as unworthy. Noahs ark -> to Moses in the -> Moses means the one who was born in the womb and the one who was drawn out of water

Moses will command Arron will do

Hardening of Pharaoh's heart: The hear is concerned with understanding and intention. Hardening means strengthening. Pharaoh is Manifesting his own heart. God refuses to recognize other divine authorities. Judaism is monotheistic.

Other notes: Plagues were an education for the future nation of Israel. God is a God of history.  Same verb is used for strengthening as for going out. 

You shall have no other gods before Me.

You shall not make idols.

You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain.

Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.

Honor your father and your mother.

You shall not murder.

You shall not commit adultery.

You shall not steal.

You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

You shall not covet.

Notes: The 10 commandments are the clearest and most pwerful expression of God's love. Hebrew word for Justice is the same as the word for charity.

God's love is expressed through law.

Law: the means by which the Nation of Israel will experience the faces of God in the faces of their neighbor.

Quick Synopsis: God creates the heavens and the earth (see list of days below). Adam is created on the 6th day....On the 7th day God rests. Everything is good except Adam is lonely. God creates Eve out of Adams rib. Adam and Eve walk with God in the garden, they name things (intellectualize ect,) The only thing they cannot do is eat the fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Eve is tempted to eat the fruit by the snake, Adam has some as well. God gets angry and banishes them from the Garden They are cursed to have painful child-birth and hard work. Humanity is separated from God and they are banished from Paradise.

Notes: God's name is YHWH which means, I will be who I will be. God's name forewarns us of trying to comprehend predict of calculate god's presence. The proper name of God is not to be spoken. No human can see God in his full Glory but his ethical intentions can be known . We can't see his face or essence but we can know him by his ways. We discover God's way in the created whole. Human reason has an elevated position. It is by rational observations that we come to know God in our finite ways.

Things to keep in mind:

-God's unpredictability

-God's Grace

-Account 1 = something commanded

               2= something restricted

Account 1:

God creates the world. In the beginning he is talking to himself not about himself. "Let there be light" is not a command it is said and it is.

1st day Light

2nd day Heaven

3rd day Dry Land and seas

4th day Sun Moon and Stars

5th day Water Sea Life and birds

6th day land animals and man

The story of creation moves in ascending order from lesser to higher. Only men can change his ways. We are the pinnacle of creation

Man is created in the image of God. Our rational intellect gives us the image of God.

Second Creation Account (not rival but sequel):

In paradise Adam and Eve rationalized (perhaps Adam was the first philospher?). Adam and Eve existed above the distinction of good and bad.

Fruit is forbidden snake tempts them Adam and Eve eat fruit. They are taken away from truth and given to passions. Instead of good and bad there is good and evil.

When God finds out he goes into a rage! But then he gives them clothes - he cannot be predicted. It is wrong to single out single episodes. We must live with the co-existence of all his ways.

Characters:

YHWH: Transcendent God (utterly outside of and other than and before world)

Adam: generic term for person or earth bound human 

Eve: Was made out of Adams rib

Serpent: Is a liar

Notes: The Hebrew bible was understood to have divine origins. The torah (the five books of moses) was communicated through Moses to the People

Terms:

Image: (is not a shape of configuration) it is the true reality of a thing

Eloyhim: is earthly ruler or "god"