Prompt 1:
It was wrong for Abram to sleep with Hagar but again God did allow the same to take place as a way of showing His permissive will on the human beings that He created. Abram finds favor with God and God makes promises to him and being human with imperfections a well as free will he decides to make his impatience have a toll on him. He felt that God was slow in fulfilling His promises to him and coupled with the pressure from his own wife Sarah, who at the time was of the view that due to old age she had no capacity to bear a son. Sarah later presents Hagar to Abram and convinces him to sleep with her out of God’s will. This is wrong as Abram as a man of faith ought to guide the wife on how to trust in God. God did not intervene in stopping Abram because He knew that at the appointed time, His word to Abram would come to pass and that Abram and Sarah would still have a child of their own as per His promise to him (Walton, 2007).
Prompt 2:
The “four-room, pillared house,” found in the Epic of Eden reading has a correlation to what Jesus says in John 14:1-2 as it signifies the numerous courtyards available in the ancient Israel houses otherwise known as Father’s house. The four-room pillared house has many rooms just as Jesus says that in His Father’s house are many mansions meaning it is one house but has numerous other houses thus there are houses within a house (Ritcher, 2008).
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Prompt 3:
Man’s creation is unique to the rest of the creation because man holds the image and likeness of God. Man has the ability to commune and relate with God unlike the rest of the creation. Man has the divine life of God and is in a position to care of the things that exist on the face of the earth as a representative of God.
Prompt 4:
God did promise Abram in his covenant to bless him and make him a father of many nations. God promised to give Abram a son at old age and that it would be his own son. The only thing that God required of Abram was faith and trust in the word of God. The sign of the covenant was the circumcision that Abram had to undergo
Prompt 5:
Bêt’āb is the physical structure where people live and this is in regards to generations in the ancient Israel setting in the bible. It is the structure that makes up the father’s house and gives priorities to the generations in regards to the inner chamber. One such structure can house up to three generations.
References
Richter, Sandra. (2008). The Epic of Eden: A Christian Entry into the Old Testament . Downer’s Grove, Ill: IVP Academic.
Walton, John H. (2007). Zondervan Get an A! Study Guides: A Survey of the Old Testament . Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan.
