Chaos in the Old Testament/ https://livingwaterunity.org/chaos-in-the-old-testament/

Chaos in the Old Testament/https://livingwaterunity.org/chaos-in-the-old-testament/ Introduction Human history is peppered with societies that rise to affluence and power only to disappear in the next instant of time. Geographic regions, such as the Fertile Crescent, undergo changes that rock the indigenous cultures – which then arise again as the phoenix out of the ashes of conflict. With introspection, we notice the internal shifts of beliefs, emotions and motivations that occur as our own life experience unfolds. All of these processes are influenced, to a greater or lesser extent, by the fundamental principles of chaos. Chaos is defined as: 1) confusion, or confused mass, of formless matter and infinite space, supposed to have existed before the ordered universe, 2) any mixed mass, without form or order. From the Greek, chaos is the antithesis of cosmos, universal order. In societies, chaos is characterized as disorder, lawlessness, unpredictability, instability. Personally, chaos shows itself as an unawareness of order in my life – extreme uncertainty and confusion regarding appropriate action, complete absence of personal direction and unpredictability of future circumstances.