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Old Testament Vs. Hellenic Text Divine Intervention
Title: Old Testament Vs. Hellenic Text Divine Intervention
Category: Society & Culture / Religion
Details: Words: 893 | Pages: 3.8 (approximately 235 words/page)
Old Testament Vs. Hellenic Text Divine Intervention
The Old Testament and Hellenic texts we have studied have numerous examples of divine intervention. The range and complexity in human affairs that these interventions occur have similar, yet different attributes. Both texts describe divine intervention as a way of explaining 'why things happen(ed) and being 'chosen' by God or gods to fulfill a destiny. Both also see divine intervention as something that can not be understood by humans; God or the gods have …showed first 75 words of 893 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 893 total…very different because of the ways God intervenes and the ways the gods intervene. God does not intervene because it is a 'game' to Him, like the gods in Hellenic texts do. The gods choose honorable, wise, royalty, type of people to fulfill important destinies, while God chooses based on nothing, and if He does, it is based on loyalty and goodness. In these ways the Hellenic texts and the Old Testament compare a contrast.
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