Christian Ethics Essays - Religion, Christianity, Messianism

Christian Ethics Exam 2, Lecture 3 Comedy has an advantage because it knows the difference between good and bad. The thing that tragedy has is that it sees reality. It knows that all we own will end up in ruins again. Maximum kill 200 million people but they had justice and righteousness on their side. The most insightful biblical story is the towel of Babylon. The truth of story is that we are better confused and separate than when we are together with one mine. We want to be able to work together which is good thing but whenever you have people come together, you have tyranny. When we have tyranny, we have oppression and when you have oppression you have mass murder. All tyranny is born out of Utopia. Tragedy sees this, which there is nothing like a utopia because it is within us. How to we keep this two insight together? Isaiah helps us to see that through irony. Isaiah view which is the esthatological Jerusalem, which does not mean the escape of history, those not mean repetition of history, it means the solution of history by God in history. God would bring a solution in historical reality. It will not be tragedy, it would a day where Jerusalem is the justice of the world (Holy land). Chapter 63 - chapter 64. Chapter 63 verses 7 to 9: There solution is not coming from a massager it is not going to come from another king or another military ruler like Saul but their solution is going to come from God. We are not looking for any supernatural solution, angle are not going to solve the problem, these supernatural power's are not the hope for human history. We are looking for God in their mist. Yahweh in history. He is talking about historical solution. Verses 11-14: Moses shows that to correct human history it has to come from the outside. Moses is an example, that a helper comes the outside to free those who cannot free themselves. This shows how God has to come to our mist in order to liberate us. Verse 15- 19: Isaiah makes a plea, Isaiah is identify with Israel in two ways: he is lamenting their loss and he call upon God to come and bring justice onto the world. Chapter 64 verses 7 to 12: He talks about how God is hidden. Blastforme is the greatest offense against God. You cannot offend God more than when you are balstformose. According to Isaiah, you are most offensive when you say you should have done more and made yourself clear because God has already has already made himself clear. Isaiah that ask where God is because he is hidden, God and be in our presence and hidden at the same time. In one way, God ways are always evidence and in another way he is out of our vision. This is the difference between God and idols. They are always present and evident. God is always indirectly known. There are two kinds of people, which are: forest people and dessert people. Forest people like the engagement with people and other. They value the sense of always participating with others. The dessert people like to be totally exposed. If you are in the dessert, you see everything What those it means to say that God is hidden? It means something that we don't understand and we should not want to understand it. 3 ways that God would solve the problem with human history. Massinic Rule: the rule of the messiah. Seen in chapter 11 and 32 Isaiah uses a historical connection that is messiah, which comes out of the root of Jesse (It originates in a passage in the biblicalBook of Isaiah, which describes metaphorically the descent of theMessiah, and is accepted by Christians as referring toJesus). This is going to be a real person who is going to be born just like me an you but out of the root of Jesse and this person is going to have characteristics totally unlike any other person, so it is historical but unique. He is going to have the lord's riotousness and also the lord spirit. With God's righteousness and spirit, he is going to judge by