The Power Of Esther's Depiction Of Characters

As a whole, the depiction of characters within the Biblical passages we have been exposed to are not meant to be accurate historical documents; they are symbolic of the human need for structure, progression, reward, and punishment. The creation of the God-powered individuals discussed shows lives fraught with danger and that would otherwise be ill-fated without divine intervention. Fundamental to the stories of Esther, Moses, Samuel, David, and Saul is the power of God to intervene on their behalf and on the behalf of the Jewish people. Each of these characters had flaws readily pointed out by the authors of their stories, and while these flaws could have been easily omitted, one reason they remain is to teach the ultimate religious meaning of encouraging each person to embrace their inner capacity to obtain their spiritual heroism with God. Explaining Esther's God-powered intervention may be the most difficult of all, yet it is not impossible. Once Haman became a man of great power in King Ahasuerus’s kingdom, Mordecai, a Jew and

In Exodus book 32, the Israelites create for themselves a god out of gold rings, an action that angers the Lord so much he wants to “put an end to them and make a great nation spring from” Moses instead (Exodus 32.10). Rather than cowering away from his wrathful God, Moses “set himself to placate the Lord” (Exodus 32.11). Moses tells the Lord to “turn away from [his] anger, and think better of the evil [he] intend[s] against” them and reminds him of his covent (Exodus 32.12-13). Moses acts heroically without God’s assistance in this instance and successfully got “the Lord [to think] better of the evil with which he had threatened his people,” thus saving the Israelites from their own God (Exodus 32.14). In this story, God is acting just as much like a human as Moses is, and Moses is the one providing