Judaism

God is Power Reading

In the old days, life was characterised by danger, risk and peril.

• You would need someone with unchallenged power on your side

• God has absolute power in a precarious and unpredictable situation

  • you need to be able to rely on His power

• many stories in the Torah testify to the mighty power of God

  • acknowledgment of God’s uniqueness, and radical monotheism

  • the power of God in creation; unchallenged power and Creationism

  • God created everyone in the universe, effortlessly

• if God is echad, uniquely and exclusively God, then God’s power over all nature and history— the ultimate canvas—is supreme and absolute

• The God of Israel described in the Bible is absolutely free, not subject to any other primeval realm or law, not dependent on any other power

• God as the first being; the beginning and the end

  • God also creates evil

  • God is responsible for light and darkness, good (order) and evil

  • dual polarities

The impact of human freedom