The Importance Of Understanding

It is important to realize that not all that David does and not all that we see in the bible is good. The only way for the bible to be taken seriously is if it realistic, for example if it was filled with good then people would not have applied it into their daily lives. When I see something that is not good by my ideals in the bible I simply say that it must be an example set there to teach me what not to do. I don’t believe that we have an obligation to be nice to someone because they were nice to us. As David said I will shew kindness unto Hanun the son of Nahash, as his father shewed kindness unto me. And David sent to comfort him by the hand of his servants for his father. And David's servants came into the land of the children of Ammon. (Samuel 2, 10) This proves that he will only be nice to the people that are nice to him. I believe that you should do whatever comes to heart. You should also try always to be nice and to be respectful, but it is not necessary for you to be mean to someone if they where mean to you and vice versa. It is important to realize that not everything in the bible has to be taken directly and to know what to take directly and what not to take directly. If you are able to do this you will be able to understand the bible much better.

What We Can Learn

Many times people fight over very simple things. Brothers fight about which TV program to watch and even simpler problems. This is what happens to many countries they will go to war over very small problems which can be solved with dialogue. This is a big mistake and when they do this they don’t realize how much they are hurting their country. You can see this in the bible, David said god supported him and he had his power. People would fight because of who had gods power and in many cases the person with god’s power won. They would fight for things as slavery “Choose you a man for you, and let him come down to me. If he be able to fight with me, and to kill me, then will we be your servants: but if I prevail against him, and kill him, then shall ye be our servants, and serve us.” (Samuel 17, 8) We have to take these examples and learn from them. David started losing gods support slowly and we can realize that great power has to be very well kept but it can go very easily. We have to think about what we fight over and if it is worth it. If I start applying this in my life I am sure I will fight less with my brother. They bible has lots of examples which you have to apply to your life in order to learn from them, if we are able to do this we will become better people.

Barack Obama Ethos, Pathos, Logos

Ethos:
“These are my heroes, theirs are the stories that shape my life. On their behalf I intend to lead this country as President of the United States.”

Pathos:
“We love this country too much to let the next four years look too much like the last eight years.”

Logos:
“I will tap our natural gas reserves, invest in clean coal technology, and find ways to safely harness nuclear power.”

Total Power

Sometimes we believe in something so much that we will obey whatever it has to say. This is what many times happens with the bible and the idea of god. People like Abraham will obey everything he sais and most of the human race obeys under a certain god. It might not be the same god but they are all similar. God is a being that has more power than everything else on this planet. He protects those who honor him “But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine adversaries.”(Exodus 23) This for me was a strange discovery that god will help the people who believed in him, I thought that he would protect everyone. I can understand what god id saying by helping those people who help him but I believe god should help anyone no matter what their belief is and instead make them believe in him by helping them. He has given us everything “For I will cast out the nations before thee, and enlarge thy borders: neither shall any man desire thy land, when thou shalt go up to appear before the LORD thy God thrice in the year.” (Exodus 34) It is very important to recognize god’s power and to learn of it and not take it in a bad and jealous way.

God As An Example

It is important to realize that from the bible we have taken our modern way of life. You might believe that since it is very old it might not have any relevance to our world except it being an important text. This is fake, the basis of our society are formed on the bible and as god said “Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day” (Exodus 20)This is from what our week is based on. The week is the most fundamental part of our lives and everything works around it. This is not the only thing that we have taken from the bible. We have also taken feelings like jealousy rage and many others that our clearly represented in the bible and we can see today. The lord shows us that in a way he is also human and that he has some of the feelings that we have and expresses them in similar ways. This is very important for the bible to be considered. If god was not at all like humans then he could get some of his messages through but not all of them. Instead if god has certain human attributes then we can use him as an example of how to deal with our lives.

Rhetoric In Presidential Debates

These are some examples of Rhetoric in Senator John McCain and Senator Barrack Obama’s third presidential debate. There is past present and future.

Senator John McCain:

Past:
“I saved the tax payers six point eight billion dollars”

Present:
“Americans are hurting right now, and their angry, their hurting and their angry.”

Future:
“We need to cut the business tax rate in America, we need to encourage business in America.”
“We need to spread the wealth around”

Senator Barrack Obama:

Past:
“The financial rescue plan that senator McCain and I supported is an important first step.”

Present:
“We are experiencing the worst financial crisis since the great depression.”
“I provide three times the amount of tax relief to middle class families”
“I want to give them a tax break now”

Future:
“I want to provide a ninety five percent tax cut”

Precious Balance

God is a very powerful being, he is the one who brought the humans onto earth and we must realize that he can take them out. In my previous blogs I spoke about gods power to kill and if he had any right to kill himself if he punishes people for killing. I have not been able to solve this question and once again I see a situation where he is taking human lives. I ask myself if he has a good reason to do it and realize that for me he does. The Egyptians were not being reasonable and therefore god had to do something but for gods standards that is not enough. In gods standards I don’t think anything is enough, he said if someone hits one cheep you should turn the other. God told the Egyptians “And if thou refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs:” (Exo.8) This is a threat coming from god and he carried out his threat by saying “For I will at this time send all my plagues upon thine heart, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people; that thou mayest know that there is none like me in all the earth.” (Exo.9) after some time I realized that god is forced to make these decisions, he is in charge of holding a very precious balance of good and evil. His task is like nothing else and in order to carry it out he must do things which no other human can do. I agree with this but it still left me with another problem if god can make super natural decisions then we are not all equal and that is a very big problem which I have not found the answer to.

A Trust Lost

The human race has a very big problem which is trust. It is a difficult topic to discuss since there are very strong arguments both on trusting and not trusting. The problem with our society and especially Colombian society is that we have proved that trust will only bring bad things. At the beginning most people trusted each other but over the years by realizing that people were getting cheated it started deteriorating. We can see a very similar situation when God asked mosses to free the people “And Mosses answered and said, but, behold, they will not believe me, nor hearken unto my voice: for they will say, The LORD hath not appeared unto thee (chapter 4)”. This means that trust has been lost. I agree that trust can bring bad things but it can also bring good things. Many times you just have to prove things to people like god did by giving mosses the rod which could turn into a Serpent. This is not always the best solution but if you can reassure people and steal deal with them then you are also doing a good thing.

A Different View

The bible is a very important book with many different meanings. It is very important to learn how you interpret the bible. The churches amazing power is that it has the right to interpret the bible however it wishes. It is what holds the power of interpretation and with its great power people become corrupt. God is not only the good being we might imagine him to be but he is a being that knows how to punish. He knows that sometimes the only way to make people understand is by punishing them “This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee; every man child among you shall be circumcised (chapter 17).” This is a fact that we all must learn to accept. A dog can only be educated if when he does something wrong he is punished and when he does something well he is rewarded. This is also something that we must learn from god, he knows how to listen and forgive. He will listen to your point of view and make decisions once he has heard both parts of the story And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for ten's sake (Chapter 18)”. Those are all examples of interpretations of the bible. But one thing that I have learned is that there is no right or wrong interpretations. That is why I don’t fully agree with the church. I don’t believe that if somebody interprets the bible in a different way it is wrong. This is what forms our society, different points of view and those differences are what make our world interesting.

Good And Bad Examples

The human race has always been a selfish one. It has actually been the most selfish being ever to inhabit the earth. It is this selfishness that has brought us to where we are. Many people might believe that by being selfish you are actually saving more for yourself and getting an advantage on the rest of the people. This ideal is totally wrong and the bible is the greatest testimony that selfishness only leads towards disaster. Adam and Eve couldn’t see that they were naked because God believed it was not important to their daily lives. When they ate the apple they suddenly felt the need to get dressed "And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons" (Genesis # 3 - 7). This shows you that selfishness only bring grief and that we should not be looking for things that we don’t want to know the answer to. A good example of someone who waited was Abraham. He was patient and got what he deserved. It shows us that doing the good pays of and that patience is a great attribute. What Abraham deserved was a prize and that is what he got And Hagar bare Abram a son: and Abram called his son's name, which Hagar bare, Ishmael. And Abram was fourscore and six years old, when Hagar bare Ishmael to Abram. (Genesis # 16) This makes me think that the bible is full of meanings which we can get from both good and bad examples.

The Touch Of A Finger

Together earth and heaven,
The people and the god,
Created with the number seven,
They shall all nod,

The touch of a finger,
The light of heaven received,
Together we all linger,
We have all achieved,

Show us the path, will the lord,
It only takes a single word

Where Are We Going

God is the creator of everything and controls everything on earth. The bible might be a reminder for some people that they don’t have all the power and this is probably why god exists. He is made to be a superior being to whom we all look up to and admire but what many people ignore is that he is not all good. Maybe it was desperation that led him to create a big flood but probably he did it to rid the earth of a great evil that would eventually destroy it. He chose a few to survive and left the others to die “And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth. Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch (Genesis # 6, 13-14) God id what was right for mankind but what was not right according to many Christians. They say it is a sin to kill but god has proven that under certain circumstances it is ok to kill. This is a great contradiction that I hope to understand some day as well as all of the mysteries and teachings that come with the bible. It shows us that we don’t have all the power and teaches us about the creation of the earth. I ask myself if a flood will come again with our corrupt civilization or if we are all left to die here and a few were meant to survive. Where is it that we are going and how long can we keep up this cobstant destruction.

What We Should Take Into Acount

The making of the King James Bible was coming to an end and after a long and hard effort the fifty translators were about to finish. All that was missing was “the binding and melting of all fifty or so translators efforts.” (pg.198). They were all expecting a well deserved reward for serving their king and their country. The only problem was that James had over done it and become ambitious. Money in England was scarce and they money he owed to the people that had so loyally served him was missing. A few people were in charge of taking the Bibles parts and “make them a single volume (p.201).” Some did their work on time but Bois was the most dedicated worker. He finished his work on time and started helping the others. This teamwork lesson is very important to realize, some people say that Colombia’s problem is people don’t work as a team and I agree. When somebody finishes early they just leave and forget about everything else and it is that attitude that has brought us to where we are right now. They King James bible shaped history it is not just a normal book in history but it has a history of its making. The problems and solutions that come with its making should be taken into account when reading the bible and the effort of these people should be noted in order to appreciate it fully.

Different Problems

England was improving its condition and religion had become even more important than before. What I believed Jacob would be able to change like I mentioned in previous blogs “It became more important than ever that England, that upper, well lit country, needed a version of the scriptures that would bind together its people, its church and its king.” (pg. 107) he was not able to do. By the uniting of the people under one religion he gave himself great power but what he was missing was for the tolerations of other religions. This is a problem we have dealt with all our lives and there have even been wars because of ethnical differences.

During this time in England any religion that was not under the king became intolerable. The bible took all the power and how we interpret it became even more important. The people in charge of interpreting the bible for us were leading us to believe that "The words of the bible where the ultimate and encompassing truth itself (pg.182)." The bible is not only what it says it is very important to decrypt the real message and understand what it is that the religion states.

The King James Bible became the only bible in England and people were taught the wrong message in saying “listen to the words of the bible and you will be saved. (pg.175)” This was the message that started misleading people to interpret the bible in an effort to decrypt the real message and interpret it in the wrong way. James wanted the bible to be very clear and trusted in words. He only cared about words and with the different interpretations different beliefs of the bible started and with it different problems.

Spelling Exercises

Exercise 1:

Original Text

In deeling with students on the hih-school level - that is, the second, third, and forth year of high school - we must bare in mind that to some degree they are at a dificult sychological stage, generaly called adolesence. Students at this level are likely to be confused mentaly, to be subject to involuntery distractions and romantic dreamines. They are basicaly timid or self-consious, they lack frankness and are usualy very sensitive but hate to admit it. They are motivated iether by great ambition, probably out of all proportion to their capabiltys, or by extreme lazines caused by the fear of not suceeding or ataining their objectives. Fundamentaly they want to be kept busy but they refuse to admit it. They are frequently the victims of earlier poor training, and this makes evary effort doubly hard. They are usually wiling to work, but they hate to work without obtaining the results they think they shoud obtain. Their critical faculties are begining to develop and they are critical of their instructers and of the materiels they are given to laern. They are begining to feel the presher of time; and althouh they seldem say so, they really want to be consulted and given an oportunity to direct their own afairs, but they need considerable gidance. (From A Language Teacher's Guide by E. A. M�ras)

Corrected Text:

In dealing with students on the high-school level - that is, the second, third, and forth year of high school - we must bear in mind that to some degree they are at a difficult psychological stage, generally called adolescence. Students at this level are likely to be confused mentally, to be subject to involuntary distractions and romantic dreaminess. They are basically timid or self-conscious, they lack frankness and are usually very sensitive but hate to admit it. They are motivated either by great ambition, probably out of all proportion to their capabilities, or by extreme laziness caused by the fear of not succeeding or attaining their objectives. Fundamentally they want to be kept busy but they refuse to admit it. They are frequently the victims of earlier poor training, and this makes every effort doubly hard. They are usually willing to work, but they hate to work without obtaining the results they think they should obtain. Their critical faculties are beginning to develop and they are critical of their instructors and of the materials they are given to learn. They are beginning to feel the pressure of time; and although they seldom say so, they really want to be consulted and given an opportunity to direct their own affairs, but they need considerable guidance. (From A Language Teacher's Guide by E. A. M�ras)

Exercise 2:

Original Text:

They seldom admit that they need this guidance and they frequently rebel against it, but if it is intelligently offered they accept it with enthuseasm. If they are healthy they are capable of long periods of concentration and an extrordinary ammount of work. They are trying, most of them, to form political ideas and they have a tendensy to be either extremely idealistik (which is usually another term for radical) or conservativ, blindely accepting what their farthers and grandfarthers believed in. It is in this period that students can be most easily and permanantly influenced. It is the period in which they form strong atachments for their teechers. Thier outlook on life is usually extremely exagerated. They are iether far too modest and retiring, or extravegantly boastfull. They are much more susceptible to the influence of a strong personality than to that of a great inteligence. Of all periods of life, this is wat may best be called the 'plastic age'. (From A Language Teacher's Guide by E. A. M�ras)

Corrected Text:

They seldom admit that they need this guidance and they frequently rebel against it, but if it is intelligently offered they accept it with enthusiasm. If they are healthy they are capable of long periods of concentration and an extraordinary amount of work. They are trying, most of them, to form political ideas and they have a tendency to be either extremely idealistic (which is usually another term for radical) or conservative, blindly accepting what their fathers and grandfathers believed in. It is in this period that students can be most easily and permanently influenced. It is the period in which they form strong attachments for their teachers. Their outlook on life is usually extremely exaggerated. They are either far too modest or retiring, or extravagantly boastful. They are much more susceptible to the influence of a strong personality than to that of a great intelligence. Of all periods of life, this is what may best be called the 'plastic age'. (From A Language Teacher's Guide by E. A. M�ras) .