One Attribute of humanity Essay that I saw in Genesis through Dueteronomy was the fearing of God. The fear of the Lord, according to the Bible, is a heartfelt reverence for the majesty of God and a loving awe of the grace of God. One who fears God has great thoughts about Him and knows Him and puts his trust in Him.
One who fears God, first of all, knows God in all of the infinite splendor of God’s being and the God who says, “I AM THAT I AM. ” Throughout the Scriptures, whenever we see a human encountering God, we see that this encounter always contains an element of fear. . Throughout the Bible we also see people who do not fear God and where this is, the Wrath of God takes place.
We see the Wrath of God take place in Genesis 3, where He casts Adam and Eve out of Eden because of their sin. In Genesis 6 God destroys the world with the Flood because of their sin. In the Book of Exodus, He sends plagues upon Egypt. God also refuses to let the Israelites enter into the Promised Land because of their disobedience and forces them to wander in the wilderness for forty years. This Divine Wrath continues throughout the whole Bible and into the New Testament. Since God is angry, and since God has the power to cast us into hell, it is certainly only right to fear the Lord.
And since the people didnt want these things to happen to them they feared God. There are many examples in Exodus and Dueteronomy where people feared God. In one instance the king of Egypt told the Hebrew midwives to kill the Hebrew womens child if it was a boy, but if it was a girl they were to let her live. The midwives, however, feared God and did not do what the king of Egypt had told them to do; they let the boys live.
(Exodus 1:17) When people fear him and do as God tells them, the Lord blesses them immensely. So God was kind to the midwives and the people increased and became even more numerous. 21 And because the midwives feared God, he gave them families of their own. (Exodus 1:20-21)Also in Exodus 9, the Lord told Moses to tell the people He was sending another plague of the worst hailstorms. He told the people to bring their livestock in and everything else into their shelter. He told them if they didnt do this their livestock would surely die.
Those officials of Pharaoh who feared the word of the LORD hurried to bring their slaves and their livestock inside. But those who ignored the word of the LORD left their slaves and livestock in the field. (Exodus 9:20) Afterwards the ones who feared God got to keep their livestock and the ones who didnt lost them. The Israelites also feared the Lord when the Lord saved them from the Egyptians at the Red Sea in Exodus 14:31. They feared Him so much that they put their trust in Him and in His servant Moses.
Moses also feared the anger and the wrath of God. (Duet. 9:19) He feared Him so much that he went up on the mountain and prayed and fasted for forty days and forty nights because of all the sin the Israelites had committed. He knew the Lord was so angry with all of them and he feared God for what He would do to them.
. There are many characteristics and attributes of Humanity throughout the first five books of the Bible but the one that stood out the most to me was the fact that many people feared God. For if we fear God, only good things can come about us but if we do not fear God the wrath of God will be upon us. If we know God, we fear God but if we dont know God then we will not fear Him at all.Bibliography: .
