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　　《The Holy Bible King James Version》读后感(一)：The Serpent and the Tree of Life

                    The Serpent and the Tree of Life
     In western culture, the culture of religion plays an important role, and the holy bible takes up the most important part in the culture of religion. Of all the stories in the Holy Bible, the story of Adam and Eve is the most well-known one in the world:
    After the God made Adam and Edam, he put them in the Garden of Eden, and he gave them everything they need, and told them that they were free to eat every tree of the garden except the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, however, later Eve and Adam were lured by the serpent to eat the forbidden fruit. At last, Eve and Adam were punished and sent out the garden of the Eden, and the serpent was also punished to use its belly to walk.
    Though many people are very familiar with this story, but in my opinion, there are still many points worthy of being explored which people usually take little notice of, one of these points is the serpent and the tree of life.
    In this story, the tree of knowledge attracts most of the eyes, however, there is another important tree in this story which is ignored by many people: the tree of life. In the general view, living a long life should also be an attractive and exciting thing, at the same time, the God also said:”Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it.” he did not set any limitation to eating the fruit of the tree of life, but why Adam and Eve did not turn their attention to the fruit of life？ And why the serpent would lure Eve to eat the Forbidden fruit？ Did it just want to be against the Lord？ At the beginning, it may be hard to link these two questions together, nevertheless, if they are dug deeper, maybe the clouds of doubt may clear away soon.
    In a general view, it seems that the serpent did not get any benefit from luring Adam and Eve—on the contrary, it got the punishment from the God that it has to walk by using its belly to walk and eat dust all the time, but maybe the truth is not as people thought. In western culture, except being tricky, serpent is also a symbol of longevity. In ancient Greece, a doctor named Asclepius who was widely revered always carried a serpent wound around his wand, a symbol seen today on many ambulances. Also, a Phoenician writer Sanchuniathon mentioned in his book that he thought the reason why serpent is so long-lived is that it can slough to renew its body to live a longer life. How on earth did serpent get the ability to live a long life？ From the extent of the story of Adam and Eve, it can guessed that the serpent may eat the fruit of the tree of life.
Maybe at the beginning, the God had wanted Adam and Eve to choose to eat the fruit of the tree of life, but unluckily they were lured by the serpent to eat the forbidden fruit. Having lured Eve and Adam to eat the fruit, the serpent could secretly go to eat the fruit from the tree of life and get the ability to live a long life, and the final result of this story was as what god said at the very beginning:“ of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest therof thou shalt surely die.” Adam and Eve were lured to eat the forbidden fruit, then they lost the chance of eating the fruit of the tree of life and they were going to die at last, however, the cunning serpent ate the fruit of life on its own, then it got the ability to live a long life.
    Above all, the story of Adam and Eve was not just a simple story which told us that they were lured to eat the Forbidden fruit and sent out the Garden of Eden, also, there is also the plot of cunning serpent under it.
                                    Work Cited
   James George Grzer, Folk-lore in the Old Testament: Studies in Comparative Religion, Legend and Law, Abridged Edition, London: Macmilan and Co., Limited, 1923
Ren Dong Sheng, An Introductory Course of Biblical Culture, Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press, Shanghai, 2013
“The Story of Adam and Eve And What It Means To Be Born Again”, Bible Knowledge.com, 2012

　　《The Holy Bible King James Version》读后感(二)：Comments on "The Holy Bible King James Version"

     In The Old Testament, God created man in his own image and called him Adam. But he said that it is not good that man should be alone, so he took one of Adam’s rids and made it a woman, named Eve, to made him a help meet for him. That is the initial reason for marriage, which is also a topic i am interested in and would like to focus on here. On top of that, there are many other reasons for marriage in the Holy Bible. More surprising, the reasons for marriage in the Holy Bible have a striking resemblance to them in ancient China.
     First, from a political point of view, people get married in consideration of political status, military award and peace and stability. In Genesis, Pharaoh gave Joseph Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, to be his wife. So Joseph took charge of all the land of Egypt. It is not a rare case that ancient Chinese emperors made someone in an important political status with some beautiful women. What’s more, they may even gave their own daughters to draw capable men ’s attention to fight for them in the battlefield as Saul said to David, “ Here’s my oldest daughter, Merab. I want to give her to you in marriage. Only be a brave warrior for me and fight the battles of the Lord.” In other cases, for the country’s peace and stability the ancient Chinese emperors would have connections through marriage with other countries. Similarly, in Second King Ⅱ, King Jehoash of Israel gave his daughter to the son of King Amaziah of Judah as a wife to keep peaceful and stable with Israel. However, marriage also can be used as a political intrigue. In Samuel Ⅱ, Abner had sexual relations with Saul’s concubine named Rizpah daughter of Aiah to extort kingship with Ish-bosheth.
     Second, from a economic point of view, people, especially women, get married because their parents can get a lot money from their marriage. In ancient China, the money was called Pin Jin. Women ’s parents all expected that their daughters could marry men who were in rich families so that they could get Pin Jin from the men ’s side, and the tradition has been observed ever since. However, the Holy Bible has a slight difference with it. In Genesis, Jacob stayed with Laban for a month. Then Laban said to Jacob, “ Should you work for me for nothing because you are my relative？ Tell me what your wages should be.” Since Jacob had fallen in love with Rachel , he said, “ I’ll serve you seven years in exchange for your younger daughter Rachel. So Jacob worked for seven years to acquire Rachel.
     Third, from a tribal point of view, people marry other people who are in the same tribe in order to keep their blood pure and multiply the future generations of the tribe. In the very beginning of ancient China, people were distributed all over the land. and lived in groups. Little by little, people started to come across other groups of people. However, they all felt superior to other groups of people and continued to live independently. That is how people in Biblical world goes too. The book of Moses was read aloud in the hearing of the people. They found written in it that no Ammonite or Moabite may ever enter the assembly of God. In Genesis, Abraham sent his servant to go to his relatives to find a wife for his son Issac. Then the servant journeyed to the region of Abram Naharaim and the city of Nahor. At last, he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel son of Milcah to become Issac’s wife. Also, the Benjaminites abducted two hundred of the daughters of Shiloh who coming out to dance in celebration to be their wives so as to be preserved. Because an entire Israelite tribe should not be wiped out.
     In conclusion, apart from the reasons above, there are many other reasons for marriage, including fertility problem, loneliness, sympathy, appreciation and so on. All the reasons for marriage have been existing until nowadays either in the Holy Bible or ancient China.

　　《The Holy Bible King James Version》读后感(三)：Women with Negative Images in the Bible

    In the Old Testament, human are considered sinful not because they belong to human race but that they have betrayed their God. It is believed that everyone has a certain kind of relation with God, it is not the relationship between creator and creation but between two human. By the time human believe that they have the capability of knowing everything and not satisfied with what they possess, they would tend to betray their holy partner by despoiling gifts which God has not given them as trophies.
    In the Bible, there are mainly two kinds of women, one is pure and flawless angel such as Deborah, the judge of Israel and Miryam, sister of Moses, and the other is ignoble whore. A large number of women and original sin are usually tightly combined together and their characters are set as the initiator to conduct sin such as adultery, incest and seduction.
    At the very beginning of Genesis, Eve was considered as the disastrous woman who led to the falling of Adam and all other human beings. Although God had previously warned them, “you may freely eat of every tree of the garden; but of the tree of knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day you eat of it you shall die” (Genesis 2:15), Eve still could not resist the temptation and curiosity and first took a bite of the fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. What was more unforgivable was that she also tempted her husband to eat the fruit and induced Adam to fall. Her greedy human nature and lust for “delight to the eyes” (Genesis 3:4) finally resulted in expulsion from Garden Eden. To punish Eve, God increased her pain in childbearing and declared that she should be ruled over by her husband, which means all the women after Eve are cursed and doomed to suffer from the same things.
    In Chapter 38 of Genesis, Judah’s daughter-in-law, Tamar became a widow with no children after his eldest son Er died of evil. As it was mentioned in Deuteronomy, "If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not be married abroad unto one not of his kin; her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother unto her. "(Deuteronomy 25:5)
    So Tamar married Judah’s second son Onan. However, Onan refused to produce offspring for his brother and received death from God as well. Therefore, Judah told Tamar to go back to her father’s house until his youngest son Shelah grew up. Many years later, Judah’s wife died and he seemed to forget the contract with Tamar. As a loyal wife who desperately wanted a child under her dead husband’s name, Tamar played a trick to achieve her aim. She disguised as a prostitute and covered her face whiling waiting for her father-in-law. After Judah lay with Tamar, she conceived as she planned previously. Many people consider Tamar as the initiator and cause of the sin of incest, but at that time it was ashamed for a woman who did not have a child. Under this circumstance it would not be hard for people to understand why she did that; she wanted to reverse her miserable destiny and knew that the only way to have a place in society is to be a mother. This woman had incredibly dispassionate attitude and unbelievable wisdom. In order to be able to identify her child’s lineage, Tamar asked for Judah’s seal, cord and stalk before they lay together, which saved her from being burnt due to pregnancy. “Tamar’s deception and seduction is construed as a heroic deed for she does not act out of concern for her own well-being.” (He 33) And even God did not punish her for conducting sin.
    Moreover, women always come after men as their mothers or wives and are under the shadow of men’s glory. Christian believe that women are subordinate to men and are born to help men because they are regarded as the generation of a part from man’s body, a rib. “Among the 3400 characters recorded in the Bible, only 5% of them are women.”(Huang 3) According to Simone De Beauvior’s theory of “the Other”, marginalized and cursed, the majority of women are merely the tool of giving birth to children and are at an edge position.

　　《The Holy Bible King James Version》读后感(四)：信仰的世界观

      《旧约》主要记载了希伯来先民及至公元前六世纪的历史与信仰：民族是如何形成的，信仰的神是谁，以色列是什么意思，犹太人的称呼从何而来，与上帝立约是怎么回事，作为犹太人要对上帝履行什么义务，什么是犹太人的梦想与幸福。
       《新约》主要记载了耶稣的生平、教导及其使徒（保罗、彼得、约翰等）的传教活动。生为犹太人的耶稣倡导了一种超越种族、民族、阶层、性别的世界观，对罗马帝国以及中世纪的欧洲文化大一统做出了卓越的贡献。
        一个关乎民族兴亡，一个着眼心灵得救。关于这个天资聪颖却又不断被流亡的民族，兴亡之事还在继续.......注视普世之爱的心灵也还在天路历程中凝望上帝的眼睛.......

　　《The Holy Bible King James Version》读后感(五)：The Story of Judah and Tamar

As a student who studied in Catholic school for 12 years, Bible is not a mysterious book for me. However, after taking the class of European Culture. I started to pick out some stories which having strong characteristic of the Jews culture and may be sound strange to the student who don’t know the background.
  In the Genesis, the story of Judah and Tamar had created fierce controversy since it is the first case that the commit incest between father-in-law and daughter-in-law. However，Tamar,the woman which had slept with her father-in-law, was not to be deem as a no chaste woman but a relatively positive image. This paper will give a brief analysis on the event from the Jewish tradition and law at that time to figure out why she was regard as a righteous woman and the reason that her story was insert in the narration of Joseph’s story.
 
Since Jewish was a nomad, the descendant equal to labour force. The family inheritance was always the first priority since it decides whether the family will attain prosperity or not. To ensure the inheritance, the Jewish even have the tradition of Levirate which was clearly state down in the Book of Deuteronomy
 
   “If brothers are living together and one of them dies without a son, his widow must not marry outside the family. Her husband's brother shall take her and marry her and fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law to her.”（Deuteronomy25：6）
 
According to the tradition, The firstborn of levirate will succeed in the name of brother which is dead, which to ensure the family will not denied and be put out of Israel.
The story of Tamar just exactly a example of levirate, her husband Shua was dead and she was married to her brother-in-law Er. However, Er was also put into death by God since he wasn’t willing to get offspring for his brother. In such a situation, by customary rule Tamar should be married to the last and only son at that time,Shelah.But Judah just afraid Shelah will soon be die after marry Tamar.So,he just give a empty promise to Tamar and send her home.
 
Yet, the action carry out by Tamar after she notice that Judah was not willing to keep the promise caused dissension among people, she just disguised as a Sacred prostitute and slept with her father-in-law in order to get pregnant and have heir for her husband.
Tamar’s action was accepted by many people because she just perform the main duty of woman in the Jewish tradition—to give descendant to the family. In the Genesis, we can find a similar case which woman using some desperate measures to ensure the family inheritance, such as Rod and his two daughter. Beside, Tamar has a different mission which makes her different from other women.
According to the Genesis chapter 49, when Jacob blesses his son, he has prophecy that the Christ will come from Judah’s descendant.
 
   “The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.”(Genesis 49:10)
 
 
It provided a perfect excuse for Tamar’s action, all her effort is to make sure Judah’s family inheritance which wait for the Shiloh come
With the background information provided，the story seem much more easy to become acceptable ,at least for those believers, because most of thing happen under God will. For those non-believers，story is just story ha ha

　　《The Holy Bible King James Version》读后感(六)：one of the leaders in the Bible--Joseph

    Bible introduces the development of the Christian. And during the development of the Christian, there are many great leaders and i admire Joseph most, so here i will make an brief analyse of Joseph.
    Joseph, the son of Jacob’s old age, was fully loved by his father. His father loved Joseph more than any other sons and made him a coat of many colors. Because only Joseph got the long robe with sleeves, his brothers were very jealous of him. This is just only one reason that his brothers hate him. Another reason is that little Joseph often brought unto his father his brothers’ evil reports. These two reasons made his brothers hate him and could not speak peaceably unto him [37:1-11]. One day they wanted to kill Joseph, but they didn’t. They changed their mind and decided to sold him as a slave to Egypt. They just told their father, Jacob, that Joseph was killed by a wild beast. Eventually, because he was wise and had the ability to interpret dreams thirteen years later, he was introduced to the pharaoh and rose to high position. He predicted that there would be a seven years of harvest and a seven years of famine, and they all come true. When the famine was coming, Joseph had restored enough grain in the city. So there are many people coming from other cities to buy grain from him. His brothers also come. At last, Joseph forgave his brothers and all of them settled there. He was a great leader of Israel and made the nation prosperous.
     This is a brief introduction of the story. I want to talk about this story from the point that what actually made Joseph have a great change and make him become a great leader of Israel.
     The first thing is that he had the ability to foresee something all because his dream and he could interpret dream. When he was young, he had dreams that the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to him, which means that he would be the leader of the family and even the whole Israel nation. When he was in Egypt, he succeeded in interpreting the chief cupbearer and the Pharaoh’s dreams. Just because of his ability (41:37), he rose to high position. Besides his ability to interpret the dreams, he was good at seize opportunities. If he did not seize to rise up and be the leader just care for the things happened just now, he will never lead people to the success and lead the whole nation to prosperity. Dream is Joseph’s most powerful weapon to overcome difficulties and find spirits and virtues: strong-minded, unyielding and patient. These are spirits that all good leaders have. When he was left in the deep hole, we can imagine how lonely and scared he was. Maybe he had begged his brother for helping him and not leaving him. But he did not give in and he made a living by his own. He became the servant of Potiphar. Potiphar made him oversee of his house and put him in charge of all that he had. He charged the whole house with great patience and deal with all things properly. When he was put into prison, he also not give up. Finally, he rose to a higher position. He was a great man that can bear all tough situation. This is the same as what Menci had said in his work called “Thrive in Calamity and Perish in Soft Living”: God will drop responsibility on one person, he must frustrate and harass his heart, fatigue his body, make him go through hunger and poor and make him do reverse confusion. Only in these ways, he inner heart will be alert, these also can firm his character and cold the ability that he does not have. Joseph will take the responsibility to lead his nation to prosperity. Though he was in such tough conditions, he never give up.
     The third reason that Joseph succeeded is that he had a firm belief. He believe that the Lord was with him. He believed that all the thing he experienced was arranged by the Lord. When he was in the deep hole, he believe that the Lord was with him, so he would not feel too scared. When he was in Egypt, it was God who gave him courage to fight for his living. When his brother came to Egypt to buy grain from him, he forgive them. He followed the instruction of Lord and he firmly believed that God will never abandon him. Here I want to say that everybody has belief in his heart, and this belief has great influence on his life. When people are in tough conditions, they will think of their belief and this will give them courage to continue their journey of life. Joseph, he had the belief that he should fight because it was Lord gave him responsibility to lead the nation to prosperity.
     The last but the most important reason is his true love of people. He not only loved his father and brothers, he also loved all the Israel people. His brother sold him and even wanted to kill him, but when they came to Joseph to buy grain, Joseph forgive them and all his families settled in Egypt. Maybe he had hated his brother and wanted to take revenge on his brother, but he finally forgave them because he loved them.
         Then Joseph said to his brothers,” Come closer to me.” And they came
         closer. He said,” I am your brother, Joseph, whom you sold into Egypt.
         And now do not be distressed, or angry with yourselves, because you sold
         me here: for God sent me before you to present life.”[45:4]
     From the words Joseph said, we can know that Joseph did not censure his brother for selling him. On the contrary, he thought this was God’s arrangement and this was his responsibility. Tolerance and forgiveness are not an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. Forgiveness is not care about what other people owed to you, how other people affronted you and what bad things other people did to you. The truly meaning of tolerance and forgiveness is love. Just as Jesus once said:” A new commandment I give unto you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another.”[13:34] As a leader, Joseph knew how to love people and forgive people. This virtue made him a great leader.
     Those are the reasons why I think Joseph was a great person. He had experienced a lot of difficulties, which made his life more colorful and meaningful. Because he experienced a lot of things, so he knew how to love others and how to refined himself. From these things, we can see that only one person has gone through difficulties and setbacks can he succeed.

　　《The Holy Bible King James Version》读后感(七)：The Flood: men’s punishment for bad behaviors An analysis of the story of the Holy Bible

         The Holy Bible is a great book; it is the same as the Greek and Roman Mythology represents cultural ,religion, and history. The Holy Bible is consist of many books and many periods of time, the stories may be real of may be not real. But the plots have symbolic meaning, and some of them I felt really difficult to understand as a Chinese student, the meaning of learning the stories of The Holy Bible is, in my perspective, to have a better understanding of western cultural which consist of its law, literature, art and education as well as the nationalities. The ideas of the Holy Bible have exposed a great influence on the forming of the western culture, as a Chinese student, I feel it is a good way to know more about western culture.
        The flood is caused by the nature. The same kind of myth has appeared not only in Mesopotamia or Babylon; it is appeared in the myth of China, as well. The flood may have been a huge disaster happened on Earth and it can be predicted that few people and animals alive. It is interesting to imagine what the ark is like and it is a symbol of saving, men has done some bad things to the nature and the nature will revenge on people. This is the punishment of people by nature. People have to respect nature while at the same time, men also have to use some of the animals to feed themselves, and this is the conflict of men and nature. If people do not respect the nature, the nature will destroy the culture of men.
However, nature is changed by men. So men have to be alive to make use of the nature. That’s why God make Noah and his wife, their sons and wives on the board; women had the responsibility to born children and make human beings live. Men has been punished by the God for they did not respect nature, only the kind men who would use nature but at the same time protect nature would survive and the offspring would do the same as their ancestors. The ark is another symbol of religion, in many films, the doom of the world is the flood and the ark is more important, as in the modern society, the ark has been made in the shape of a spaceship. There is a slight change of attitude between men and God, men and animals after the flood. Before the flood, god treat human nice, after the flood, god make covenant with human, this represents a sense of responsibility and political realization in the society. Before the flood, god knows that the fall of man and he is angry, but Noah and his family are good ones. They lead people to survive. After the flood, there is the fight against bad behaviors. This shows that people respect peace and a willing for a peaceful life. They want to seek peace and have a good moral life. The God does not love, and he had the power to punish.
      Men have to live a peaceful life. This is a good wish throughout the world, beyond nation and religion. The desire for a peaceful life is the motivation of the progress. There can be wars and disasters to achieve, but the wish for peace and a stable and economical life is everlasting.

　　《The Holy Bible King James Version》读后感(八)：Notes about The Tower of Babel - A Struggle beyond Limitation and Separation

The Holy Bible, as well as the classical mythologies about Greek gods I learned this semester, contains stories I found difficult to understand in the modern sense, or say, in the mortal sense.
However, the most valuable lesson I learned in college, I believe, is to accept the differences, to try to understand them in certain contexts, and to explore the possible inspiration despite of my disapproval.
Therefore, I found the Holy Bible an intriguing book with so many weird, meaningful stories, and it is thrilling considering that those stories have such profound influence on human society.
In specific, my favorite story in Bible is The Tower of Babel. It is simple but abundant in meaning for it is an etiology explaining why men are scattered over and speaking different languages, which is of particular significance for a language student. What’s more, it reflects both the importance of communication and the impassable barrier in it.
When God was annoyed by men’s arrogance, he did not punish men like he had done in Noah’s time, or destroy the tower of Babel directly. He kind of played a trick to prevent them from building their tower or achieve anything as grand that may establish their greatness. He broke down their cooperation and understanding by confusing their language, which was so neat that the tower of Babel was soon abandoned.
The failure in communication prevented men from establish their own existence. Language as an impassable barrier is remarkable here, but there is more than that. I believe it is the inevitable differences and uniqueness that makes understanding so hard for human.
The difference in language is essential for a nationality to define and tab themselves. The vanishing of language mark the disappearance of a nationality. However, men were divided, limited and separated by the difference in language and also by the tribalism of their own. Therefore, we are incapable of accomplishing a heaven-reaching tower or anything as great that would need the effort of all, the thorough cooperation and understanding.
It’s amazing to see how deeply God understands what he created “in his own image”. He is the only God who is in eternal loneliness. When God was creating the world, the first thing that he did not see “that it was good” was that Adam was alone without a suitable helper. But God have never thought about making himself a partner to clear his loneliness. He created men but still kept them far away. God is perfection. He is always on his own.
Men were created “in the image of God” on their own, while they were born imperfect, incomplete and in desperate need of others. But like peoples speaking different languages, each man is an individual that is defined and limited by his own uniqueness. It was almost impossible for individuals to fully trust or really know each other even if they are speaking in the same language, living close together or even in the closest relationship, let alone peoples long scattered and with numerous differences.
The idea of Babel is about achieving our own greatness as human. Knowing all the obstacles and weakness of our own, the idea is always alive. There are still thoughts and efforts taken to communicate the world and to heal the gap between nationalities and individuals. Like in Science Fiction “Tower of Babylon” by Ted Chiang, men ascended higher and higher making futile efforts knowing the possibility that the water behind the vault of heaven may cause a second Deluge. The desire for heaven drive them to extend the road further and higher. “When we leave the tower, we will take the upward ramp, not the downward.” Men may success or not while the tower is abandoned and extended again and again. It’s a struggle beyond our own limitation and separation, trying to establish human existence.

　　《The Holy Bible King James Version》读后感(九)：Homosexuality and Bible

      
       Many traditional Christians condemn homosexuality because of the religious doctrines in Bible. Chapters 18 and 20 ofLeviticus, which listsome prohibited forms of intercourse, contain the following verses: “You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination.” (Leviticus 18:22 ) “If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.“(Leviticus 20:13 )The two verses above were historically interpreted as clear blanket prohibitions against homosexual acts. It is interesting to find out why homosexuality was historically condemned in Bible.
    The main reason may be that homosexuals could not give birth to a child and increase the number of human beings, which against god’s will when god created the world and man.
     And God blessed them, and God said unto them, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.”(Genesis 1:27)
     At ancient time, the population was not so big as today and it is essential for human beings to keep the growth of population. Probably god created gender in order to let human beings to repopulate the earth and the increase of human population would help them to dominate over every living thing that move upon the earth.
        Having the ability to give birth was considered as God’s grace, however, homosexuals can not give birth to a child and could not let human be fruitful and increase the number, which means to abandon God’s grace. In addition, the growth of homosexuals would also do damages to the marriage and may decrease the population. Therefore, Christianity thought homosexuality would threaten to the Pre-existing values, marriage, and the function of reproduction. God choose to give strong condemnations to show his great anger because the reproduction would depend the future of the man that created in God’s image and God could not bear the decrease of human beings because of homosexuality. In a word, homosexuality was condemned probably because homosexuals could not give birth and help human beings increase the population.
The other reason why homosexuality was condemned in Bible may be some homosexuals choose sexual intercourse just for releasing their sexual desire, which was committed just lechery and abomination.
        In God’s eyes , sexual intercourse was as a reproductive behavior and could create new life, and all the sexual acts for reproduction was reasonable and should be blessed because they are creating for God.
        However, God hate greatly woman to do sexual intercourse just for satisfying sexual desire. For example,Aholah the elder, and Aholibah the sister committed whoredoms in Egypt and then multiplied their whoredoms in the Bible.“ For thus saith the Lord GOD; I will bring up a company upon them, and will give them to be removed and spoiled.”(Ezekiel 23;46) “Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness.”(Ezekiel 23;48) Concerning about homosexuality, it is even worse because homosexuals’ intercourse has nothing to do with reproduction and should be condemned. Therefore, it is no surprised that homosexuality would be committed as abomination.
       In conclusion, homosexuality was historically condemned by traditional may mainly because it could not help to increase the number of man and homosexuals was just for releasing their sexual desire, which was committed just lechery and abomination.

　　《The Holy Bible King James Version》读后感(十)：Sabbath--A Time to Rest

Time plays an significant role in Bible and Judaism. In Genesis, God created the heavens and the earth day by day. The call to prayer, one of the important rites of Judaism, is also performed in chronological order. When it came to how to deal with time, God had given people an answer--Sabbath.
Although human beings are not able to conquer the time, they are able to control it. God says, “Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your animals, nor the alien within your gates” (Exodus 20:11). People tried to dominate the world in the previous six days but they could also try to dominate themselves on the seventh day no matter what class they came from.
However, Sabbath did not mean idleness. “By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work”(Genesis 2:2). This sentence might be confusing. Did God really work on the seventh day or he did nothing？ In fact, God did work on the seventh day. He created peace and calmness.
In Bible, Sabbath is highly related with “holy”(one of the most famous words of Bible). “Holy” is the most suitable word to express the mystery and honor of God and in the sentence “And God blessed the seventh day and made it holy”(Genesis 2:2), “holy” was used to describe Sabbath. From this perspective, we can understand the great significance of Sabbath in Bible.
When I first read Genesis, I was shocked. I assumed that God would choose to set up a holy land, whether a holy mountain or a holy well, after completing the heavens and the earth. Nevertheless, God let the holy Sabbath appear first. Then in Exodus, he told Moses that “say to the Israelites, ‘you must observe my Sabbath. This will be a sign between me and you for the generations to come, so you may know that I am the LORD, who makes you holy”(Exodus 31:18). God’s words mean that only by observing Sabbath can human beings become holy. At last, God thought that it was time to consecrate things. So in Numbers, there is a sentence saying that “when Moses finished setting up the tabernacle, he anointed it and consecrated the altar and all its utensils”(Numbers 7:1). From the order of consecration we can also know the importance of Sabbath.
Ancient rabbis held the opinion that even the fool revere Sabbath. They thought that it was impossible to tell a lie on the Sabbath day. Zohar says, “Sabbath is the name of sole saint”(Rashbi). Therefore, people should not call Sabbath in unholy land because Sabbath is the name of God. That is why some religious people do not want name their children ‘Shabbat’ now.
Here is a story of a rabbi in Poet and Merchant:
There is a rabbi who was put into a cave by some bad guys. Living in the cave, he did not know whether it was day or night. So he could not sing and pray to celebrate Sabbath, which had been his habit since he was young. What was worse, he could not resist the temptation to smoke. He felt worried and self-condemned from time to time. Suddenly, all his pain had gone. Then there were words coming from his heart saying that “ it must be Friday night. Every time when I was thirst for the foods that were forbidden on Sabbath day, this desire would leave me when Sabbath day had come.” Then he stood up happily and thanked the God. Week by week, his desire for cigarette regularly faded away.
This story told us that the real meaning of Sabbath lies in rest. Both spirit and body could have a rest on Sabbath day. Both human beings and God posses the same love. People’s love towards Sabbath is like God’s love towards people. Human beings kept Sabbath like God consecrated the seventh day. But however idealized Sabbath was, it was still an concrete fact, a legal system, and a living order. And it must be so because “rest without spiritual rest, rest would become the source of degradation; and abstinence successfully protected this glorious day from being vulgarized”(Heschel 29中文译：休息而无灵性，则是堕落之源; 而这些禁戒成功地防止了这光辉的日子被庸俗化). Nowadays, Sabbath still has a great influence on our life, for example, professors in XMU would take a year’s sabbatical from teaching to do a research or to write a book.
Works Cited
1.Shimon Bar Yochai（Rashbi). Zohar（光辉之书）.
2.Abraham Joshua Heschel. The Sabbath--Its Meaning for Modern Man, Shanghai Sumerian press, August 2013.