기억은 순종의 기초 신명기 11장
신명기 11장의 핵심 주제는 기억의 순종과 자유의지의 역설입니다. 하나님의 명령을 기억하고 지키는 것이 축복의 조건이라는 메시지가 강하게 담겨 있습니다. 또한, 인간이 스스로 선택할 자유를 가진 것처럼 강조하지만 실상은 순종은 축복을 불순종은 저주라는 명확한 결과가 주어지기에 자유의지는 역설처럼 느껴집니다.
다단과 아비람 사건
1. "You shall therefore love the Lord your God and keep his charge, his statutes, his rules, and his commandments always, his rules, and his commandments always. 2. And consider today(since I am not speaking to your children who have not known or seen ie), consider the discipline of the Lord your God, his greatness, his mighty hand and his outstretched arm, 3 his signs and his deeds that he did in Egypt to Pharaoh the king of Egypt and to all his land, 4 and what he did to the army of Egypt, to their horse and to their chariots, how he made the water of the Red Sea flow over them as they pursued after you, and how the Lord has destroyed them to this day, 5 and what he did to you in the wilderness, until you came to this place, 6 and what he did to Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab, son of Reuben, how the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, with their households, their tents, and every living thing that followed them, in the midst of all Israel. 7 For your eyes have seen all the great work of the Lord that he did.
모세는 백성들에게 하나님이 이집트 왕으로부터 탈출한 이야기 등을 기억하면서 이집트에서 행산 심판 그리고 광야에서 반역한 자들에 대한 징벌 특히 다단과 아비란 사건등을 얘기하며 기억하라고 명령합니다. 하나님의 권능과 기적을 직접 본 자들은 그 명령을 지킬 책임이 있으며 이러한 기억은 순종의 기초가 되기 때문입니다.
하나님이 점찍은 젖과 꿀이 흐르는 땅
8. "You shall therefore keep the whole commandment that I command you today, that you may be strong, and go in and take possession of the land that you are going over to possess, 9 and that you may live long in the land that the Lord swore to your fathers to give to them and to their offspring, a land flowing with milk and honey. 10 For the land that your are entering to take possession of it is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have come, where you sowed your seed and irrigated it, like a garden of vegetables. 11 But the land that your are going over to possess is a land of hills and valleys, which drinks water by the rain from heaven, 12 a land that the Lord your God cares for. The eyes of the Lord your God are always upon it from the beginning of the year to the end of the year.
왜 그렇게 가나안 땅에 집착했는지 알다가도 모르겠어서 찾아보긴 했는데요. 가나안이 당시로서는 매우 탐이 나는 지역이긴 했나 봅니다.
하나님은 명령을 지키면 약속의 땅인 가나안에서 번성할 것이고 그 땅은 하나님이 직접 돌보시기에 노력보다는 타고나게 탁월해서 입성만 하면 된다는 식으로 설명한 듯합니다.
마음의 할례가 더 중요하다고 말하는 신명기 10장 내용
신명기 10장은 새 석판을 준비하고, 일련의 에피소드가 있는 가운데 궁극에는 하나님과의 언약을 지키는 것과 그분을 경외하는 것이 중요하다는 것에 대한 강조를 하는 내용입니다. 또한, 할례
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13. "And if you will indeed obey my commandments that I command you today, to love the Lord your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul, 14 he will give the rain for your land in its season, the early rain and the later rain, that you may gather in your grain and your wine and your oul. 15. And he will give grass in your fields for your livestock, and you shall eat and be full. 16 Take care lest your heart be deceived, and you turn aside and serve other gods and worship them; 17 then the anger of the Lord will be kindled against you, and he will shut up the heavens, so that there will be no rain, and the land will yield no fruit, and you will perish quickly off the good land that the Lord is giving you.
지속해서 하나님께 순종하면 충분한 비와 곡식 그리고 번영을 약속하고 불순종하면 가뭄과 멸망을 주겠다고 엄포하십니다. 또한, 하나님의 말씀을 새기고 자녀들에게도 가르치고 일상 속에서도 지속해서 기억하라고 명령합니다.
18. "You shall therefore lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul, and you shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. 19 You shall teach them to your children, talking of them when you are walking by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. 20. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates, 21 that your days and the days of your gates, 21 that your days and the days of your children may be multiplied in the land that the Lord swore to your fathers to give them, as long as the heavens are above the earth. 22. For if you will be careful to do all this commandment that I command you to do, loving the Lord your God, walking in all his ways, and holding fast to him, 23 then the Lord will drive out all these nations before you, and you will dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves. 24 Every place on which the sole of your foot treads shall be yours. Your territory shall be from the wilderness to the Lebanon and from the River, the river Euphrates, to the western sea. 25 No one shall be able to stand against you. The Lord your God will lay the fear of you and the dread of you on all the land that you shall tread, as he promised you.
20절이 인상적입니다. 또 네 집 문설주와 바깥문에 기록하라, 고 하는데요. 이는 하나님의 명령을 가정의 중심에 두라는 의미입니다. 유대인들은 이 명령을 따라 집 문설주에 메주자를 붙여 놓는데요. 이것은 하나님의 보호와 축복을 상징합니다.
축복과 저주를 명확히 경고
26. "See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse: 27 the blessing, if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you today, 28 and the curse, if you do not obey the commandments of the Lord your God, but turn aside from the way that I am commanding you today, to go after other gods that you have not known. 29 And when the Lord your God brings you into the land that you are entering to take possession of it, you shall set the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal. 30 Are they not beyond the Jordan, west of the road, towards the going down of the sun, in the land of the Canaanites who live in the Arabah, opposite Gilgal, beside the oak of Moreh? 31 For you are to cross over the Jordan to go in to take possession of the land that the Lord your God is giving you. And when you possess it and live in it, 32 you shall be careful to do all the statutes and the rules that I am setting before you today.
보라 내가 오늘 너희 앞에 복과 저주를 두었다. 하나님은 이스라엘 백성에게 선택과 기회를 주는데 명령을 따르고 거역하는데도 자유의지와 책임을 강조합니다. 이것이야말로 자유 의지의 역설이 아닌가 싶습니다.