Thursday, October 27, 2016

Taoist texts can hep us deepen our understanding in Chinese culture. Through Taoist texts we estimate that China was only ruled by 1 emperor.

Friday, October 7, 2016

Holocaust.

January thirty, 1933, The Holocaust started. If you don't know what the holocaust is here's a short summary. German Nazis had one main goal, to kill as many Jews as possible. This was lead by Hitler.  In total they killed 6000000 Jews and millions of non Jews. That's a big number that was caused by one person. So a lot of thoughts came up to many Jews. Why did God let this happen?Well I believe it was yet another test. As I've mentioned in other posts. God felt insecure of himself so he thought. I need a way for man to prove that they worship me. So he sends out a war. Killing many Jewish people. Family members would have to pray to prove worthy to God. But unlike in other test God has givin (Adam And Eve, Noah's Arc, Yosef And Abraham, The Tower Of Babel). This time, was it too far? Many Jews started to question God on why he did this, and why he didn't stop it when it went too far. according to the article holocaust Survivors: The Search Of Faith. Mr Menechem Daum. Told of his fathers thinking. "A God who limits Himself to actions we humans can understand can't possibly be God"  this means that God is not powerful enough to do things that humans can't comprehend.  He also talked about his mom. Before his mom died she told him. When I come face to face to God I will ask him why he stood quietly during the holocaust.

Thursday, October 6, 2016

Book Of Job Similarities


The book of Job is very similar to many parts of Genesis. Such as the creation in Genesis 1-3, in Noah's ark, and in the story of Abraham and Yosef. They all have a similar story. God who is insecure about himself wants to know if humans he made worshipped him. Even though he is God and knows all. So he then usually continues by giving a human a task to see if they worship him. But the task isn't simply pray to me for 5 years. No, it's some ridiculous task, like to kill you own son. Or to not eat from, a tree even though humans can't resist temptations. Although this part is not carried out in Noah's Ark, there are other traits in it that connect to the book of Job. In all of these parts of Genesis God gets mad, and then  makes some overkill punishment for doing something he knew was gonna happen. In Adam and Eve, he knows Eve will eat from the tree because God specifically tells them not to eat from the tree because it grants wisdom. Who wouldn't be tempted by something so powerful in the reach of your hands. He then goes on by punishing all of mankind by making humans feel pain. In Noah's Ark, people are being loud, well he created man didn't he? So why can't he just make them be quiet. Instead he makes a huge flood destroying everyone but  one person, Noah. In the story of Abraham and  Yosef he makes Abraham kill his own son, because he is insecure and wants to see there loyalty. . Why didn't he just make man to always worship him. Overall a lot of parts in Genesis follow a format kind of like Hero's Journey. First there's a problem, then God makes a huge task to fix the problem. Then he gets mad and makes a huge deal out of everything and makes a huge punishment.