The Holy Bible King James Version的读后感10篇
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《The Holy Bible King James Version》读后感(一)：The Original Relationship between Human and the Lord God in the Garden of Eden
The Holy Bible King James Version is the first religious book that I have truly taken a close look at. I am quite interested in it, so I did a research on "The Original Relationship between Human and the Lord God in the Garden of Eden".
The LORD God picked up a pile of dust, puttered around as if making a human-like pottery. Behold, there came the earliest ancestor of mankind, Adam. And then, God granted him Eve, a woman, as his friend, as his companion, as his lover, and as a part of him. The LORD God breathed into Adam’s nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. (Genesis, 2:7) In Genesis (1:26), we are told that the LORD God formed Adam according to his own image and figure, so the LORD God must be permeated with love and singleness of his heart towards all human. Nevertheless, why did God choose dust？ Why didn’t God use gold or even diamond since he cherished his creature so much？ I would say, it is because dust is mean and low; it is humbled to nothingness. So, it could act as the most proper medium between human and the LORD God. It revealed that human became a valuable living soul only when he kept the LORD God inside his heart. It was the very beginning of esteem, of obedience, of belief, and of faith.
When distrust defeated belief, when grudge smashed faith, human would be likely to be guilty of innumerable and all kinds of evil. What’s more, their relationship with the LORD God began to experience a myriad of changes. That is exactly what matters. Having the human living immortally in the paradise-like Eden Garden seemed to be the LORD God’s original intention. But why didn’t he slam the door against the serpent, which was the incarnation of Satan that he must have been clearer than anyone？ That’s because the LORD God endow human the right of free choice and entrusted them the future of the whole mankind. When Eve saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, (Genesis, 3:6) thoughts or recollections just began to flash across her mind; yet the solemn promise to the LORD God just started to collapse while the belief in the LORD God to crumble as well.
Crime and evil sprout at the very moment when human’s eyes were open, when they won the ability to think and when they gained the knowledge to distinguish between good and evil. As time went by, human put the LORD God and themselves on an equal footing, which caused a little wicked idea thriving into a myriad of evils mount to heaven. Then the LORD God changed from an amiable grandfather into a stern father. For that time, human had to labor over, how to undertake liability, how to face life and death and how to bear severe sufferings.
(e.g. The Lord God said to the woman, I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children. Your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you. And to Adam he said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, ‘you shall not eat of it,’ cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life; thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you; and you shall eat the plants of the field.”(Genesis, 3:15-22))
The first thing Adam and Eve noticed after they had eaten the forbidden fruit was that they were naked. So their first action was to sew fig leaves together and made themselves loincloths. Since their eyes were opened, that meant they obvious knew what consequence beven escape. But they did none of those things. When the LORD God asked Adam, “Where are you？” He answered” I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked, and I hid myself.” That is illogic and worth researching to me. How come that Adam hid himself because of his sense of shame instead of his guilt？ Integrating human’s vacillation towards their vow to the God with their avaricious and desirable natural instincts together, I suppose, all kinds of temptation first swallow human’s body, and then engulf their eyes, finally devour the whole soul. According to this succession, seduction turns to evil thoughts, and become sin at the end, pauses at one step, and leaves a very deep footmark at each step.
The Lord God made coats of skins, and clothed Adam and Eve before he sent them forth from the Garden of Eden. How could the Lord God make coats of skins？ He must slaughter intact and living lambs. In the face of Adam and Eve, The Lord God poured out the blood of the lambs and then dismembered their bodies to make fur clothing. Why did he do so？ Obviously the Lord God wanted them to know that the lambs were dead on account of their fault. And the whole world became the scapegoat of human’s crime. All creation was cursed to suffered from pain and sacrifice. From this we may see, the first sermon, delivered by the Lord God to human, was not by verbal, but via action. Another thing worth mention is that the fig leaves were prickling and uncomfortable to skin. So we should not ignore the fact that the Lord God really cared about human. However he intended to make them learn in sufferings, grow up mentally and spiritually and finally get close to him with pure soul.
All in all, as it is said in the First Letter of John (2:16), “for all that is in the world, the lust of fresh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life is not of the Father, but is of the world.” It is human’s natural instinct to have the rapacious desire to be too arrogant to put themselves in the same position of God. That’s not real intimacy, but filthy offence to God. That is also what we should evade today. Stay modesty, and stay merciful. I wonder that’s why so many Christians pray. “If Christ be in you, the body is dead of sin, but the spirit is life because of righteousness.” (The Letter of Paul to the Romans, 8:10)
《The Holy Bible King James Version》读后感(二)：one of the leaders in the Bible--Joseph
ible 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(三)：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(四)：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(五)：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.
《The Holy Bible King James Version》读后感(六)：圣经和我
我有一本德文版的圣经和一本中文版的圣经，德文版圣经对我来说就好像是“为了激励自己减肥而特意买一条瘦的牛仔裤结果根本没穿过”的感觉，中文版倒是经常翻翻，还被我带到学校里面来了。
这本圣经其实是我外祖母的，她老人家是个虔诚的基督教信徒，可能是因为外祖父去世地早，为了找寻精神寄托才信的教，这些我不大清楚，还是有机会问下母亲好了。
这本圣经至少有10年的历史了，闻闻还有当时县里教堂烧的那种蜡烛的味道，
话说到底，我是不信教的，暂且不管尼采说的那些“上帝已死”，从现实的角度来讲，外祖母于2012年中风，住院后情况有所好转，本来已经康复到可以拄着拐杖走路的地步，结果又扭到了腰导致卧床至今，神智也不太清楚了，从那以后就再也不相信所谓的救世主了，外祖母中年丧父，把一儿三女抚养长大，然后晚年丧女，二女儿因为脑瘤去世，本以为可以安度晚年，现在却只能躺在床上等待死亡，想想这就是信了半辈子神的结果，总觉得荒诞不已。
记得小时候无知，还和她老人家争论主是否存在，现在想想真是愚不可及。
上帝已死：
当神定下的准则无法继续成为约束人行为的律法时，上帝就已经死了。
从这一点看，自从亚当和夏娃吃下苹果的时候，就已经注定了人类悲剧的结局。
人们可以把圣经看做历史书，神话读本，宗教文本，但我还是倾向于将其看做关于“约束”的条文，圣经写出来的根本目的不是发展信徒，而是号召人们采用某种生活态度，自然而然，人类社会发展至今，圣经对其信徒的约束力早已比不上虔诚的穆斯林，
有的时候全民都读圣经，到底是好事呢，还是 坏事呢？
虽然不信教，却依旧对福音书中描述的情景有所向往，这也许就是圣经的魅力所在。
如同书的结尾：
啊，主啊！我愿你来！
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厦门大学软件学院——李锴
2014/6/24
《The Holy Bible King James Version》读后感(七)：Compare the Child Sacrifice in Different Cultures--A Research Based on Abraham Tested
The first time I had been amazed by the surprising similarities or sharp contrasts between two things that seem to have no faintest relation with each other was in my middle school history class. After discovering the likeness of what happened in China and around the world by chance, I have unconsciously developed the habit to compare what I learned and try to figure out their inner connections, which not only helps me to get a better understanding of things but also inspire further thoughts and ideas towards various phenomenon and issues. This way of learning was encouraged when I read the text book of the course of European Culture, and noticed the part called “What was happening in China？”. Now I have fully adopted this method, learning with comparison.
When I read the Holy Bible and lost in the colourful stories and the profound meaning it tries to deliver, I was hooked by the story of Abraham Tested, not only because of its dramatic plots, but also because it reminds me of so many different and similar accidents in other cultures and under other circumstances, which lights up the passion to make a comparison among them.
“Abraham built an altar there and arranged the wood on it. He bound his son Issac and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood. Then he reached out his hand and took the knife to slay his son.”(Genesis 22:9) The father made all these actions calmly and orderly as if he was not preparing to kill his son but only to slaughter one of the chickens as a butcher. The narration above this paragraph has emphasized how precious the son was to his father makes it more unreasonable for Abraham to kill his only son regretlessly. As parents’ love is regarded as the most selfless one in the world, many people will wonder what is the father’s thought when he is determined to sacrifice his child as they read about Abraham Tested.
In this case, portrayed as a faithful follower but to some extend a ruthless father, Abraham probably knew that the God would not really take the life of his son, which has been indicated by the text. The first clue is that God told Abraham when Hagar and Ishmael were sent away that “through Issac that your offspring will be reckoned”.(Genesis 21:12) When God asked Abraham to sacrifice his son, Issac had no descendant yet. Thus Abraham could believe that his son would not die at that time and he would have much time to live. The second clue is in Abraham’s words before he was ready to kill his son. After all things was ready, Issac asked his father where the lamb was for the burnt offering. Abraham answered God himself would prepare the lamb. When the angel stopped Abraham from killing his son, he soon found a ram in a thicket caught by its horns.(Genesis 22:13) This seemed to be arranged by God in advance, and he did not mean to take away Issac from the beginning. From the reasons mentioned above we can guess that Abraham must have known the result of this sacrifice, so his actions appeared calmly.
When talking about story of sacrificing one’s children in order to show their loyalty, it does not come singly but in pairs. There are similar thing in Chinese history. A man called Guo Ju was regarded as a kind person. He was born in a well-off family, but he divided the family’s fortune into two part and gave them all to his two brothers after his father’s death. He left nothing to himself except the responsibility of supporting his mother. He was extremely filial. When his family became too poor to survive, Guo asked his wife to bury their three-year-old son so that their family could spare more food for his mother. The ending of this story is kind of like the binding of Issac. The son did not die, because when the father dug a hole he found a case of gold which was marked to reward Guo for his great filial piety. In this case, the father’s reason was that the couple could have more sons but mother was the only one. However, it is clear that lives could not be measured like that. Although this story is ridiculous from the modern view, it has been regarded as a model of filial piety for a long time in Chinese history.
The happy endings of these two examples make it seems that their purpose is just to teach people a lesson, while there are more stories about children sacrifice and these do cost lives.
The king of Moab took his firstborn son and offered him as a sacrifice on the city wall.(Kings 3:27) This father merely gave his son’s life as a jetton in order to exchange the victory of the battle.
imilarly, in the Greek mythology, the King Agamemnon also sacrifice his eldest daughter to gain wind from Artemis for sailing to Troy.
For more instance, in the book of Micah, a man asked God:“ Shall I offer my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul？ ”(Micah 6:7) Even the king of Moab and Agamemnon had an excuse to sacrifice their children, which was claimed for the honour of their people. However, this man seemed too selfish for asking to exchange his son for his own salvation.
In all these examples, fathers sacrifice their children for loyalty to God, filial piety of parents, peace for the country, power in the battle, and even their own interests. Another common point in these stories is that it’s the fathers who made the decision of sacrificing their children. This maybe partly because the absolute power of men in ancient time, while from my view, the more possible reason might be people’s average opinion of regarding mothers as more merciful to the children.
These stories are made by people, but child sacrifice really existed in ancient time. Although these events are impossible to happen openly today, we should still try to prevent ourselves from this kind of incorrect values, which had rooted in varied cultures as mentioned above. Child sacrifice has no excuses no matter under what conditions and how their parents value.
《The Holy Bible King James Version》读后感(八)：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(九)：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(十)：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。
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