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More significantly, 10,000 (a myriad) was the highest Greek numeral, and a talent the largest unit of currency, [1] so that 10,000 talents was the largest easily described debt (for comparison, the combined annual tribute of Judea, Samaria, and Idumea around this time was only 600 talents, [2] and one denarius was a day's wages, [2] so that ...
Justus Knecht gives two important moral points from the episode of the golden calf: 1) The Mercy of God. "The people of Israel had sinned horribly against God by their idolatry, and yet, at Moses’ intercession, He forgave them." 2) Idolatry. "The weak people were most ungrateful and faithless to God. The Lord had done such great things for them!
The stupidity and foolishness of the idol-worshippers has been described at the end of the verse by the words (Feeble are the invoker and the invoked - 22:73) meaning thereby that if the object of worship is so utterly weak and powerless, those worshiping it must be more so.(They did not recognize God in His true esteem - 22:74).
1-6 Oaths that man is ungrateful to his God; 7-8 Man loves the things of this world; 9-11 Man’s secret thoughts shall be discovered in the judgment-day [2]; A one liner theme of surah al-adiyat would read that this surah gives an example that horses are more grateful to their owners than men are to their Rabb (Allah).
Sight of God's supernatural works and retribution would militate against faith in God's Word. [5] William Lane Craig says, in Paul's view, God's properties, his eternal power and deity, are clearly revealed in creation, so that people who fail to believe in an eternal, powerful creator of the world are without excuse. Indeed, Paul says that ...
63–66 The true God rejected by ungrateful men; 67–68 The true God alone to be worshipped; 69–70 God the Sovereign Creator of all things; 71–76 The miserable lot of those who reject the Scriptures; 77 Muhammad to persevere patiently; 78 No apostle ever wrought miracles without God's permission; 79–81 God revealed in his works of providence
So, I'm just thinking in my head, a 10-year-old girl, she doesn't want that, that's going to be spilling all over her book bag, ruining her homework. Let me get one that's safe and secure."
Everyone desires to exist, so no-one should be ungrateful for having been granted existence (ch. VI–VIII). The order of creation proceeds by degrees from the highest things to the lowest; the world would be imperfect if it did not contain souls that were capable of sinning, nor would it be perfect if sin were not balanced out by punishment ...