Name: Sifat Ara Haque

Midterm: psalms, BOT314E 2017

Submission date: 11/04/207

Answer to the question no 2

Creation:

God is wonderful and he adores excellence. It is for this that the entire of God's creation has been

composed and made so impeccably. God is the best maker. He is the most effective and lenient.

To start with God made the earth and the paradise. He raised the paradise so high and set up the

adjustment. God made everything, for example, the moon, the sun, the stars, world, the tress both

prostate et cetera. Everything in the universe has been made excellent with reason and in extent

and measure both subjectively and quantitatively. God who made everything in the most ideal

way and he started the making of man from earth

Creation of Man:

Man is made as the most excellent creation on earth. Adam the father of humanity, has been

made in God's own picture. This implies has been gave with life, Knowledge, energy of hearing,

seeing, seeing yet the highlights of Adam are not quite the same as those of God. God has life,

information, and energy of comprehension and Adam additionally has them however there is no

examination between the maker and the made thing. God has made Eve as a partner of Adam.

They are the primary individual who were living in the paradise yet one slip-up has sent them

back to the earth. Primary motivation behind making humankind to commend God likewise

leading lives in relationship and loyal administration to him. People are valuable to God.
Fall: God sent Adam and Eve to earth as they disobeyed God’s command. Satan and devil

influenced them to do so. Since then rebelled against God has started. All the bad deeds was

occurring that time. People were committed with crime, shame, and guilt. They didn’t have fear

of God. They broke their relationship with God. Then God decided to send someone who can

restore the broken creation.

Redemption:

Jesus is one of the most important part of mankind. God sent him to protect us from all the bad

deeds and to show us the right path. Jesus played a significant role in our life. Jesus tried his best

to guide all the mankind. Some people had trust on him and some people were accusing him.

However God loves Jesus and that is why he always protected Jesus. Jesus was the one who died

for the sins of the world and he is making a kingdom of new creation. God brought Jesus’s life

back from death. Gradually all the bad thing are being removed.

New Creation:

God promised that that he would build everything new. And once again we shall return to him.

The lives on earth will be ended. God would make a new heaven, a new life for us. There will be

no sin, death, tear and guilt. We will be living there happily and forever.
Answer to the question no: 3 (a)

Psalm 19 is all about the glory of God and it is one of the most outstanding psalms. It gives the

meaning that the guidance of mankind is nothing but God’s mercy and grace. God is the best

creator. We cannot even find any imperfection in his creation. God created us and taught us how

to express ourselves. The heaven he raised and imposed the balance. We are nothing without his

love, support and forgiveness. God loves us and that’s is the reason we are existing on earth and

getting all the blessing of God. Heaven is one of the best creations of God, he made this haven

for mankind to live there peacefully. He is the lord of two sun rises and two sun sets. He release

the two seas side by side, between them there is a barrier so that neither of them break the law.

These two seas emerge pearl and coral. Is it possible for us to build such thing? Have we ever

realized that how blessed we are and how our life is going on with the mercy of God.

More or less everyone go through hard time in their life. In this circumstances we seek God’s

help and mercy. He may not answer at a same time but surely he does, he always listen to us.

Who can be so merciful but God? We cannot deny any of his blessings and he is the best

decision maker.

God does not depends on his creation .God is well defined from his creation and God always

existed, creation did not. (Genesis 1:1-3)

In every situation we should praise God and should thank him for making this wonderful earth.
“In the four opening verses of the psalm, David personifies the heaven, depicting them as if they

had a voice to speak God’ praise. It is as if the heaven were like human with an ability to speak

and they used that ability to acknowledge the glory of God”. (psalm 19:2-4)

According to the psalm 19 it is clear that God take care of those who love and obey him. His

main purpose to send us on this earth to follow his commandants. We should afraid of God.

Overall I can say God is beyond everything and is the most powerful. He is the most

knowledgeable. That is why Ben should care in order to his prayer to be heard, his problem to be

solved and last but not the least get helped when he get distressed.

Answer to the question no: 4 (a)

Praise is a word that we often use in conversation, especially thanking God for blessing. God

wants us to praise him in every stage of our life. However for some people it takes time to

understand what praise really mean. There is a guy named Lewis, he misunderstood God. He

took the word “praise” negatively. He thought “why do we need to praise our God every time”?

According to him it was an arrogant behavior. However, gradually he realized the absolute

meaning of praise. Before he failed to understand that praise is the result of satisfaction which

makes it an existential act or phenomenon. Then he explained, whenever we are satisfied of

somebody we love them. This love is what contain us to set of an action, saying, qualities and

virtue identical to those of the beloved which finally result in absolute respect to the entity.
Later on he demonstrated that all praises except for God, are futile and everything originates

from God. Therefore, God is worthy of the greatest praises and naturally all praises lead up to

him as the ultimate source of God. It can be remarked in difference times for praising God for

giving diverse good things or removing bad things. God is so merciful and he told us about

everything that we need to make it all the way to heaven to be in everlasting happiness. One of

these ways is to praise God and show appreciation to him. Praising God will make us stronger

believers. Everytime we praise God and remember him we grow stronger as believers. All the

creature that God created around us are continuously praising God, even if we do not understand

their languages or their praise.

 References:

1. C.S. Lewis, Reflections on the Psalms. (New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1958), pp.

93–97