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May 9, 2023 · The ocean dominates the surface of the earth and is in the pages of the Bible too. The Bible offers a view of the sea and the life it supports which affirms its intrinsic value to God as a good, and indeed essential, part of creation. At the same time, it also speaks perceptively of the sea's vulnerability to damage and change.
teaching on God’s relationship and our relationship with all creation. Theologians sometimes talk about God’s book of Words (the Bible) and His book of works (the world around us). Only the former is authoritative, but we gain so much insight into God through the latter. Science is a process or methodology for studying the natural world,
As part of God’s design, the sea too has laws and limits which govern its behaviour. Some passages suggest even more delightful ways in which God is linked with the sea. Psalm 104.26 speaks of the ocean as the playground where God ‘plays’ games with Leviathan, the great sea monster. In the sea, Leviathan is like God’s beach-ball!
Trapped by circumstances. Hurting. Afraid. Facing impossible odds. Traversing long, dark valleys. Some circumstances are beyond our control, and something as simple as the ringing of a phone, a card in the mail, or a knock on the door can push us off the wire. We fall into a world of worry.
Although Keshgegian does not engage the classical theological insight that the kind of power implied in divine sovereignty is not appropriately construed as a competitive relationship between God and creatures (since God is not a being in and of the world), her depiction of a divine monarch’s power as “over against human freedom, power, and will” (38) is a commonly held notion all the same.
- Derek Nelson
God uses storms to help us mature. Sometimes God allows us to go through storms for our own development, to make us more like Him. In Matthew 14, Jesus commanded His disciples to get into a ship and sail to the other side of the sea, right into a storm. He did this to teach them a lesson about trusting the Lord. Sometimes, God sends us through ...
f Exodus, Session 5 The Crossing of the Sea Exodus 14–15 The story of the exodus. reaches. ts narrative climax in the episode of the crossing ofthe sea. According t. people go, God did not lead them by way of the land of the Philistines, although it was. out way in the des. rt, toward a body of water that is known inHebrew as yam sup. The.
