What can Christians learn from the Psalms about the character of God as understood in the OT?

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TITLE..............................................................................................................................................1
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

TITLE
What can Christians learn from the Psalms about the character of God as
understood in the OT?
INTRODUCTION
In simple terms, Christianity is all about practising and following the teaching of Jesus
Christ the Son of God. The core symbol and element which is used to signifies an individual a
Christian is 'cross' and 'The Holy Bible'. Along with this, the Bible is a consider as the
combination of 66 books which is has been classified into two categories such as Old Testament
and New Testament. Moreover, Bible is organised into three main sections that are Torah which
means 'Teaching', Nevi'im that demonstrates as a Prophetical books, and finally Ketuvim that
states Writings which is poetry and drama (Hjelm, I. and Thompson, T.L. eds., 2016). However,
in relation to this report, it centres the idea over what can Christian learn from the Book of
Psalms about God (VanGemeren, 2017). The Book of Psalms is a collection of hymns, poems,
songs, prayers and also it is one of the most widely used section by Christians. However, the
Book of Psalms enable Christian to understand God's greatness, mercy, love towards humans
beings. In context of this study, it highlights the content which states what Christian can learn
from Psalms about God's character.
MAIN BODY
In the Bible, The Book of Psalms is also termed as Hymn-book of Bible that is part of
Old Testament as well as identified as the longest book in Bible as it is categorised into five
sections that is a collection of 150 psalms. Apart from this, the Book of Psalms is written in the
year of 1000BC (Gillingham, 2020). Along with this, this book is written by five authors such as
Moses, David, Solomon, Asaph, Korah. As per overall analysis of Christian faith, it has been
demonstrated that Psalms is a book which express that God is not only the gravitational centre of
history and creation but also the human life and wisdom (Allen, 2018) 1. According to this
analysed it has been determined that Christians believe that there is only one God who has
related the earth or heavens. Christian faith is majorly based in four major pillars such as the
existence of the God, Jesus is divine, fact of resurrection as well as God is both all powerful and
all good. In addition to this, with the help of Psalms it enable individual to recognise the
1 Allen, Psalms, p. 21
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