Exodus, Daniel 6, And Job

Throughout history the themes and notions of the Bible have been controversial. Even today, the books of the Old Testament are up for debate, as to whether they are relevant, irrelevant, or offensive to people. Different individuals, however, seem to have different views to the passages, regardless of their religious affiliation. Due to the different views posed by contemporary people, the biblical passages tend to relate to matters based on religious views or secular views. The three passages, Exodus, Daniel 6, and Job depict the relevance of the Bible today through the religious and secular views uncovered. Some passages have shaped tradition and have been used as an influential force in American history and culture. While, other passages …show more content…
In the passage, Daniel is set over the kingdom by King Darius because he has outshone everybody and all the other ministers and satraps. As a result, the minister and satraps were resentful and attempted to bring him down by accusing him for any fault in his activities. The opening verses of this passage are true to life in today’s modern society. Due to Daniel’s success and favoritism by the King, his colleagues are jealous and plot against him together. In this world, when a person is successful, people seem to be united in their hope to see the flourishing person make a mistake or get in trouble. Daniel 6 demonstrates a world of jealous and cunning colleagues. Similar to Daniel’s success, the modern world always has people that face jealousy and contempt due to their success. Throughout history, the progression of one individual tends to cause a cunning or envious action of another. In corporate America, where competition is a big factor in business, jealousy is omnipresent. Businesses, also, shows its jealous characteristics when dealing with those similar or competing for the same resources. Furthermore, the passage shows a leader who carelessly issues a decree. Today, this related to corporate officials or management that make a careless decision but refuse to rescind it. Like King Darius’s negligent agreement with the ministers and satraps, leaders and managers today create ill-advised agreements. In …show more content…
Job’s fear of God, forces him to live without sin. However God makes a deal with Satan, allowing Satan to curse Job and his belongings. Though some may oppose the religious view of God forming a deal with Satan to cause a follower to suffer, secular view of an innocent man suffering. This passage shows the relevance today because, the reader can relate to Job’s suffering. In other words, Job represents all individuals, in their encounters with suffering. Religiously, people, particularly Christians, view this text and relate Job’s suffering to Jesus’ suffering. Modern Christians believe that the unjust suffering of Job foreshadows the suffering of Jesus. As a result, Christians today look at this passage and teach the suffering face by Job to people. Moreover, Elihu tells Job that he isn’t necessarily a sinner, but his misfortunes are part of a cycle of divine power that cannot be questioned or understood. Elihu also mentions that are responses and reactions to these misfortunes represent something and can represent foolishness. The modern society, understands and acknowledges that somethings are out of their jurisdiction and that only God controls what happens. Furthermore, times of hardship may be incomprehensible but just have to be accepted. Despite the religious aspects of the passage, the ideas and views are related to the secular views of people. The theme of an innocent man