An Enemy Called Violence Essay Research Paper

An Enemy Called Violence Essay, Research Paper

An Enemy Called Violence

Even though the Hebrews believe God to be loving, he is not found pleasant in

all situations. God is helpful, rewarding, and caring in the Bible toward the people who

have faith in him; and is also known to be devastating, and at times overwhelming to

his opponents when God inflicts forces of violence. The force of violence plays a

major roll in Genesis and Exodus. Three main events in Genesis/Exodus come to mind

when discussing the privileges of God.s followers or the violence against God.s

opponents. God regrets his creation of mankind and exercises force against the

wicked and evil people by creating a flood to cover up his error. This error shows how

God relates to humans by making mistakes. God, however, finds Noah to be faithful

and spares his life to reward him. Joseph also finds favor in God.s eyes and is kept

safe through his hardship. The force is inflicted by Joseph.s brothers because they are

jealous of Joseph and it would be beneficial for them if he was out of the way. God

exercises force a second time in Exodus against the Pharaoh and Egypt, because God

cares about his faithful people and wishes to free them from the Pharaoh. His

intentions are also to show Egypt that he is real and is also extremely powerful.

One of the first forces of violence in biblical history is when God decides to

create a flood to destroy all of mankind to eliminate his error. It is believed that he

creates the flood by releasing the window of the heavens. He decides that the people

he created are evil and wicked, which originated in the Garden of Eden with Adam and

Eve. The people are not faithful and do not have a relationship with God. He regrets

that he

created mankind, because they are the reason for corruption in his new world (Genesis

6:5).

Noah and his family are the only humans that God wants to survive. God favors

Noah because he has proved himself to be a ritous man and God feels that his faith

should be rewarded (Genesis 6:9). God tells Noah to build a large ark for himself, his

wife, his three sons, his son.s wives, and two of every animal (Genesis 6:18). The ark.s

purpose is to keep them alive during the flood, while the rest of the animals and human

beings are deliberately destroyed.

God then seals the ark with his chosen survivors inside; and in turn, releases the

waters. The water falls violently for forty days and forty nights flooding the earth

(Genesis 7:12). After the water slowly dries, God tells Noah to lead his other

passengers off the ark to live on the earth again, to be successful, and to multiply

(Genesis 8:16).

Out of appreciation, Noah builds an alter for God and presents the clean animals

as burnt offerings (Genesis 8:20). God is pleased with Noah once again and accepts

the offering. A covenant is then made privately by God promising to never destroy

every living creature in the world again, in return he wants assurance that the world will

have endurance. (Genesis 8:20). . As long as the earth endures, seedtime and

harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.(Genesis

8:22). Finally, he seals his covenant with a rainbow. Noah.s faith in God leads to the

survival of Noah and his family. Those who disappoint God with their wickedness and

their evil are destroyed.

Another force of violence found in Genesis is also inflicted many times upon the

life of Joseph. Joseph is his father.s favorite son, which creates hate and jealousy

toward Joseph from his own brothers and they are the source of his violent life. God

speaks to Joseph through dreams. He first dreams of his brothers. sheaves bowing

down to his sheaf. In his second dream, the moon , the sun, and the stars bow down to

him (Genesis 37:7). Joseph tells his brothers his dreams, and his confession offends

them and increases their anger against him. They believe that he is bragging, and that

their lives would be more significant to their father if Joseph was out of the way.

Joseph.s brothers conspire to kill him and then plan to blame it on the wild animals.

Instead, they decide to throw him into a pit without water. Their plans change again

when a group of Israelites wander by the pit and the brothers sell Joseph into Egyptian

slavery (Genesis 37:28). Joseph, however, is favored by God and is treated the best

possible way in all of his situations.

While in slavery, Joseph becomes his masters favorite slave because his master

believes that God was with Joseph. His master.s wife then begins to show interest in

Joseph. Joseph, having no interest in her, declines her every offer. She becomes

very angry and then falsely accuses Joseph of attacking her (Genesis 39:17). Despite

the accusation, Joseph is not put to death as slaves typically are. His punishment

consists of going to prison.

In prison, it does

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