In many instances, such as Adam and Eve, Noah's Arc, and the parting of the Red Sea, as stated in the Old Testament. ... He or she assumed Adam and Eve resembled man at his or her time. ... Moses and the Jews settled in the land of Canaan. ... In the Old Testament, it says that God gave Moses power to part the Red Sea so that they could pass. ...
This was fulfilled because it was God's people, who were Adam and Eve, in God's place, the Garden of Eden, and under God's rule and blessing. ... Adam and Eve's fall crushed God's perfect plan and kingdom, by introducing the world to sin. ... These were known as God's people so he did not want to see them in captivity, so he sent a man named Moses to free them. ... Moses parted the sea for them to cross and it then collapsed on all the Egyptians. ... God gave Moses the Ten Commandments for his people to follow. ...
However once Adam and Eve ate from the Tree of Good and Evil and sin entered the world, we have been separated from God's Kingdom and enjoying this eternal rest. ... After Adam and Eve's sin ruined God's pattern for His Kingdom, the Kingdom became perished and man lived independently from God, they turned away from God and faced his punishment and curses. ... We see this promise partially fulfilled through Abraham's descendants, as Moses leads the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt, then through Joshua when God's people finally claim their promised land, and finally th...
By breaking the covenant, Adam and Eve experienced death, not only physically years later when their once-perfect bodies aged and failed them, but spiritually as well. ... The covenant was made with Israel, the descendants of Abraham, through Moses, mediator between the great I Am and His people. ... Although the law was validated by the people and Moses, confirmed with the sacrificial blood, and sealed with the Covenant Meal, it only served as a yardstick and could not offer anything more that a temporary dispensation from the wages of sin. ...
Later, he writes; "The Jews have their Moses; the Christians their Jesus Christ, apostles and saints; and the Turks their Mahomet; as if the way to God was not open to every man alike." ... He contrasts this to the fact that they sacrifice Jesus Christ himself simply because Eve had eaten an apple (and in fact in his conclusion states how they make Jesus kill himself, a Jew killing a Jew in favor of the Roman Empire). ...
INTRODUCTION In his book "Love of Enemies" William Klassen examines the various interpretations of love of enemies in relation to war and peace in the Jewish and Christian faiths. Klassen has three distinct concerns that make an influence on his views on peace. First, Klassen feel...
