Judaism

Beliefs  of God


Judaism:  Is the Hebraic Faith. This show the history and tradition with the Bible. 

The founded of this tradition called  "Children of Israel" the Israelites, or Hebrews became known  as Jews

name derived of Jerusalem known as Judea.  Hebrews tradition was spiritual mystical and founded

 on faith.  The Jews produced a "religion of the book" what Christian regard as the Old Testament of  the

 bible providing a spiritual and moral foundation.  The nomadic Hebrew people were forced out of the

Mesopotamian about 2000 BCE by the warlike between Akkadians and Ascendancy of the Babylonians.

They setted in Cannan, located in Jordan River and Mediterranean Coast.  Cannan become their homeland

and was the Hebrews believed, promise to them by their God, "Monotheistic" believe in only one God

Hebrews subject to the power of their God, Moreover,  the considered the figures of other religions

 subordinate to the God of Israel. The history and religion of the Hebrews are one and the same and are

 recorded in the Bible, their  Gods power was manifest in particular events. First, was the creation then

Hebrews believe that God created heaven and earth. Genesis related Adan and Eve disobey God's words

in the Garden of Eden and eat the forbidden fruit. So,their were exposed and explain why the Human

 King no longer lives in the original  paradise.  After exile that continues in the wandering of the patriarchs.

The first of the patriarchs was Abraham. When god called Abraham out of the land Cannan,

the immediate acceptance of  Gods will.  To Abraham and his followers and descendants God made the

 solemn promise of the Covenant.  God renews the covenant originally made with Abraham this Covenant

is referred to many times in the first five books of the Bible, which are called the Law or the Torah,

 instruction or teaching.  Seven hundred years after the time of Abraham the Hebrews were living in Egypt

They left Cannan for Egypt and they prospered there until Egyptians enslaved them. In about 1,250 B.C.E

 patriarch Moses defied  the pharaoh and led his people out of Egypt into the Sinai desert. God  said to

have given Moses the Decalogue or Ten Commandments and they are :

Arts and Culture, third edition, by Janetta Rebold Benton and Robert Diyanni An introduction to the Humanities; google images.