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Deuteronomy 28:15–64 contains "curses for disobedience"; things that will happen, according to verse 15, 'if you do not obey Yahweh your God and do not carefully follow all his commands and decrees I am giving you today, all these curses will come on you and overtake you.' [107] In particular, Deuteronomy 28:30 states: 'You will be pledged to ...
Moses pronounces great blessings of prosperity over Israel if they obey God, and horrible curses of violent suffering and destruction if they do not. PEOPLE: Moses – יהוה YHVH God – Israelites. PLACES: The Israelites are camped east of the Jordan River in Moab (Deuteronomy 1)
Or, in Paul's view, "by the one man's disobedience the many were made sinners" (Romans 5:19). Thus, the Bible describes humanity as connaturally "enslaved to sin" (Romans 6:6; John 8:34). Therefore, in biblical thinking, a freedom from being "enslaved to sin" in order to "live as one ought" must be acquired because "sin" is "the failure to live ...
The Deuteronomist, abbreviated as either Dtr [1] or simply D, may refer either to the source document underlying the core chapters (12–26) of the Book of Deuteronomy, or to the broader "school" that produced all of Deuteronomy as well as the Deuteronomistic history of Joshua, Judges, Samuel, Kings, and also the Book of Jeremiah. [2]
Warfare represents a special category of biblical violence and is a topic the Bible addresses, directly and indirectly, in four ways: there are verses that support pacifism, and verses that support non-resistance; 4th century theologian Augustine found the basis of just war in the Bible, and preventive war which is sometimes called crusade has also been supported using Bible texts.
Genesis 3:14–24 – Curse upon Adam and Eve and expulsion from the Garden of Eden; Disobedience; Genesis 4:9–15 – Curse upon Cain after his slaying of his brother, Abel; Genesis 6–7 – The Great Flood; Rampant evil and Nephilim; Genesis 11:1–9 – The confusion of languages at the Tower of Babel; To scatter them over the Earth
Here the same word, respect, is used. The Torah equates the respect you owe your parents with the respect you must show God. Furthermore, it says, 'Whoever curses his father or mother shall be put to death (Exodus 21:17). And furthermore, it says, 'Anyone that curses God shall bear his sin' (Leviticus 24.–15).
While Leviticus 12:6–8 required a new mother to bring a burnt-offering and a sin-offering, Leviticus 26:9, Deuteronomy 28:11, and Psalm 127:3–5 make clear that having children is a blessing from God; Genesis 15:2 and 1 Samuel 1:5–11 characterize childlessness as a misfortune; and Leviticus 20:20 and Deuteronomy 28:18 threaten ...