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Chan-Seung Lee
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 Posted: Fri May 18, 2012 5:53 am Post subject: be caught up |
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| At each stage the basic question, �Who is God?� immediately raises other questions. The first of these is �Who am I?� In stage one identity is based upon the physical body and the environment. Survival is the foremost consideration here. If we look at biblical history, we find that the ancient Hebrews could survive in a harsh world much more easily than in a purposeless one. The hardships of their lives were many � it took persistent, unending toil to raise crops from the land; enemies abounded; and being in the middle of a much larger nomadic culture, the Hebrews were caught up in one migration after another. How could this life of bare subsistence be reconciled with any sort of benign God? |
1. What does 'a purposeless one' mean?
2. What does 'be caught up' mean?
3. What does 'the Hebrews were caught up in one migration after another.' mean?
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askeladd
Joined: 05 Jan 2010
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Location: Chicago area, USA
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| Posted: Mon May 21, 2012 9:21 am Post subject: Re: be caught up |
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| At each stage the basic question, �Who is God?� immediately raises other questions. The first of these is �Who am I?� In stage one identity is based upon the physical body and the environment. Survival is the foremost consideration here. If we look at biblical history, we find that the ancient Hebrews could survive in a harsh world much more easily than in a purposeless one. The hardships of their lives were many � it took persistent, unending toil to raise crops from the land; enemies abounded; and being in the middle of a much larger nomadic culture, the Hebrews were caught up in one migration after another. How could this life of bare subsistence be reconciled with any sort of benign God? |
1. What does 'a purposeless one' mean? |
"one" is a pronoun referring to "world":
==> ...the ancient Hebrews could survive in a harsh world much more easily than in a purposeless world.
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| 2. What does 'be caught up' mean? |
To find oneself involved in, to be doing something even though it wasn't anything that you had planned.
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| 3. What does 'the Hebrews were caught up in one migration after another.' mean? |
From the story of the Exodus: The Hebrews wandered in the desert for 40 years before they were allowed to enter the Promised Land. So for 40 years they were constantly migrating - they were moving from place to place, and didn't settle down into towns and villages.
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