Biblical- Blessings and Curses
What does the Holy Bible say about “Blessings and Curses”?
What do you mean by Blessing?
Blessing can be defined as a power which follows human beings like a shadow, throughout the span of his life in this world, leading him to obedience, goodness, success and well being in all his endeavors.
What do you mean by Curse?
Curse can be defined as a power, which follows human beings like a shadow, throughout the span of his life in this world, leading to disobedience, sin, failures and illness in all his endeavors.
As per the Holy Bible, in the beginning God created the Heaven and Earth, and the word of His mouth; He created everything in this world. He found everything as good and blessed them. And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being. God created man in His own image, in the image of God
He created him; male and female. Then God blessed them and said to them,
“Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth; but due to the disobedience of man brings forth God’s curses on mankind, animals and earth (Ref. Genesis 3: 14-18).
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The Holy Bible consists of 66-books, out of which blessings and curses were mentioned in 60-books. Further we can see the word “Blessings” 616 times and the word “Curses” 230 times in Old Testament and 100 times approximately in the New Testament. In the book of Deuteronomy 6-chapters are exclusively given to describe it. (Deuteronomy chapters 25 to 30). Now we can guess the importance of the subject “Blessings and Curses” in Bible.
Further we can see that, the Almighty God Says that, “I call Heaven and Earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live”. (Deut 30:19) In another
What do you mean by Blessing?
Blessing can be defined as a power which follows human beings like a shadow, throughout the span of his life in this world, leading him to obedience, goodness, success and well being in all his endeavors.
What do you mean by Curse?
Curse can be defined as a power, which follows human beings like a shadow, throughout the span of his life in this world, leading to disobedience, sin, failures and illness in all his endeavors.
As per the Holy Bible, in the beginning God created the Heaven and Earth, and the word of His mouth; He created everything in this world. He found everything as good and blessed them. And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being. God created man in His own image, in the image of God
He created him; male and female. Then God blessed them and said to them,
“Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth; but due to the disobedience of man brings forth God’s curses on mankind, animals and earth (Ref. Genesis 3: 14-18).
1
The Holy Bible consists of 66-books, out of which blessings and curses were mentioned in 60-books. Further we can see the word “Blessings” 616 times and the word “Curses” 230 times in Old Testament and 100 times approximately in the New Testament. In the book of Deuteronomy 6-chapters are exclusively given to describe it. (Deuteronomy chapters 25 to 30). Now we can guess the importance of the subject “Blessings and Curses” in Bible.
Further we can see that, the Almighty God Says that, “I call Heaven and Earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live”. (Deut 30:19) In another