Bible Characters

The characters we find here, Bible characters, are not "goody, goody" people who always get things right. They are people just like us who struggle with life's problems. It was not easy for Ruth to leave the only land she had known to go with Naomi. It was not easy for Naaman to go back to his country proclaiming his new found trust in the God of Israel. These were indeed real people with real problems.The God who was with them is still waiting for us to ask him in to be the captain of our lives, to take us through the storms we meet.
There are two main sorts of characters, good and bad. I usually have written about the good characters, but there are good reasons to look at the bad too. I will be doing that as I progress through the Bible. Bad characters are there so that we can see how we can avoid their mistakes. Of course the good characters also make mistakes and when we see them repent and gain forgiveness it encourages us to look for forgiveness too. There is much to be learnt from our Bibles; we would be well-advised to read them more often and more thoroughly.

In your Bible at Luke 4 verse 27 you can see what Jesus has to say about Naaman. Also you can find it in the link below. Naaman was a non -Jew. The pharisees who were Jewish leaders at the time were shocked when Jesus pointed out to them that in Naaman's time there were many Jews who were lepers and yet it was Naaman the non-Jew whom God healed using Elisha. Jesus was always pointing out that God cared about the outcasts and foreigners. He was not speaking against the Jewish nation only against their leaders at the time who were bound up in religiousity and cared nothing for the needy even in their own community.

Keep checking here for more interesting Bible people. I am planning some new additions all the time. Now you can meet Jacob , a second son who took priority, who knew about domestic squabbles and losing a son. He even had to uproot and live in a foreign country in his old age. Then there will be Cornelius, a Roman centurion who became a christian. It's all happening in a Bible near you. My lens about Paul is now complete. While you are waiting for me to complete these lenses look at the link below and find more Bible characters..

Would you think they were all straight-laced and holy? Although many of them became holy and devoted to God, they didn't start off that way. They were people who made mistakes just like you and me. In the Bible you can find murderers like Paul and adulterers like David. One main character started out as a prostitute. Samson was a womanizer and Moses was a murderer. My word what a sordid bunch. But it's all for a good reason. It's to show us what God can do with poor material. It's to show us that God wants to save us from sin and only He can do this and mould us into the people we wish we could be. The Bible is an amazing book, it portrays its characters as they really were and doesn't gloss over the mistakes of the heroes of the faith. I tell you it's a book worth reading.