A paper which examines the different characteristics of God as they appear in the Old Testament.
The paper examines the God of the Old Testament who displays many human images and emotions. The paper reminds us that that Bible was written by man who wrote of God in the only manner he could in human terms. The paper defines several of Gods characteristics (for example, creativity, protectiveness, vengefulness, and grieving) and shows how they relate to instances in the Bible.
“The Lord is a vengeful Lord. He removed Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden. He destroyed man and beast because of their evil ways (Genesis 6:13). When the Pharaoh would not let the Israelites free, Moses spoke with him, pleaded. Moses warned him that God would take vengeance on the Egyptian. First the river turned to blood (Exodus 7:17). Then the frogs came (Exodus 8:5). When the Pharaoh still did not let the Israelites go, God turned the dust and smite into lice (Exodus 8:16), After the lice, came the flies that swarmed amongst the houses of the Egyptians (Exodus 8:21). The Pharaoh still would not let God’s people go. Th’s angered God even more and he sent down a disease that killed the cattle of the Egyptians. The cattle of the Israelites were saved. Then the Lord commanded Moses to take the ashes from the furnace and sprinkling it towards the heavens, it was changed into a boil that only affected the Egyptians. These boils affected both man and beast (Exodus 9:10).”