Bible - Role of Abraham

Hebrew Bible Paper - Abraham Abraham stands as one of the most important figures in the Hebrew Bible, and is central to the understanding of God’s solution to the problem of mankind. Man, the mysterious creature that God wraught as a semi-experiment, is constantly prone to believe he is self-sufficient and capable of survival without God, the central problem God must deal with in the Hebrew Bible. To solve this problem, God decides to …showed first 75 words of 1617 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1617 total…breed and create a nation that will possess the qualities God sees fit. Rather than destroying, God is creating. Rather than striking out against the bad qualities of human nature, God is finding those who possess the good qualities and ensuring their success. In this way, the world will eventually be full of those with only good qualities. God and Darwin eerily coincide here, in a way neither of them would have been comfortable with.