Alliance (Bible)

See also: Alliance

The biblical Alliance is an alliance between God and humanity in general or with the people going down from a Prophète in particular like Noah, Abraham, Jacob - Israel or Mahomet. A priori this alliance would have direction only for the Judaïsme and the Christianisme which believe in the crowned character of the Bible, however the Islam appears also readily like descendant of this biblical tradition.

The concept of Alliance keeps all along the Bible some characteristics permanent:

  • It is concluded on the initiative of God which require of the men to believe in him and in certain religious proposals.
  • It urges the man to respect ritual practices and sociétales particular; it is in the Bible commands.
  • According to the respect of its letter by the man, Alliance matches sanctions or rewards, rétributives or salutary.
  • If the man with the faith in God and observes his commands, it according to the Bible is rewarded; the remuneration covers the rewards during its life whereas safety is the reward after death.

Alliance in the Judaism

In the Torah Jew, God concludes and reactualizes Alliance with different Prophètes:

  • First of all, after the Flood, with Noah and his descent (as much to say according to the Bible very whole humanity); this first Alliance extends even to all the living beings survivors from the arch that God promises not to exterminate more in mass; the sign of Alliance is a Arc-en-ciel.
  • As the Earth was bequeathed to Noah, the Pays of Canaan is promised with Abraham and its descent; the sign of Alliance is then the Circoncision.
  • This alliance is transmitted of wire father of the descent of Abraham, with that of Isaac, with that of Jacob which took the name of Israel.
  • In the Tanakh (called Old Testament by the Christians), among the descendants of Jacob - Israel, it was Moïse which took delivery of the most important actualization of Alliance. After having received the revelation of its mission at the time of the episode of the Burning bush, Moïse accepted from God the Décalogue; via Brace which carried out its people out of Egypt, God achieves his promise to install it in the Pays of Canaan. In addition, the Judaism also recognizes the value of the oral law, which is studied in Talmud and its comments.

Alliance in Christianity

For the Christian , the form and the bottom of this alliance evolved/moved, passing from universal to the people of Israel in the Old Testament and returning to universal in the New Testament; It is in this direction that they speak about old and of new Alliance.

Thus, according to the Bible, the disciples of Jesus de Nazareth who saw in him the Messie, interprêtèrent its prediction like the ultimate achievement of the Alliance of God not only with the people of Israel but also with the whole of humanity. For the Catholic S and Orthodoxe S, matérialisation of this alliance after the arrival of Christ is the Eucharistie, act in sacrificial matter which reminds the death of Christ for forgiveness of the sins (like the Scapegoat of the Juifs) and during which is made the Transsubstantiation.

Thus Saint Paul distinguishes two Alliances: the Ancienne Alliance (called today the First Alliance), and the Nouvelle Alliance, which resulted in a subdivision of the Christian Bible into two principal books, consécrée by Canon defined by Irenee of Lyon.

The evolution of Alliance is not to see like a historical process but like the result of the religious reflection at various times of the drafting of the Bible. In addition, biblical Alliance is a particular case of alliances concluded between other ancient people from the the Middle East; the Code of Hammourabi in is an example. The Islam follows also this same type of means-Eastern alliance between God and the man by the intermediary also of a Prophète, Mahomet.

See too

External bond

  • the theology of Alliance in New Testament by the cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (January 23rd 1995)

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