Most of the heroes in the bible are man such as Jesus, David and Noah all these heroes, are men and not women. Esther was one of the few women in the Bible to be a hero by confronting the King Artaxerxes of what is right and what is wrong. Esther was born in 465BC and the story was written in about the time of 500BC.this was the time when the Babylonians had destroyed Jerusalem and most of the Jews turned into slaves. This was also the time when the Jews turned to exile. This was a great story in the bible because she was one of the only women in the Bible to be a hero. She is a hero because she confronted the king and she was protected because she still believed so God protected her through that time. Jewish faith is to be never broken …show more content…
The nature of the Jewish God is All powerful he so powerful that he could end the world in seconds, all Knowing he knows and he is in everything and is seeing everything. The God makes a covenant with his people and says if you follow my rules I will protect you and if you fail to follow me I will punish you. The Babylonians invaded the Jews and they all stoped having faith so God started Punishing them for not believing or following him. Esther did not stop believing because she knew if they stop believing that they will be punished so she did not lose faith in God and saved the Jews from death. The reasoning for her being a hero is because she did not stop believing and when she confronted the king she still believed in God so God helped her and protected her, and she was not banished and the king listened to …show more content…
Esther prays to God and then she goes to the king and tells him that he is making the wrong decision. The king listens to her reasoning and the reason she was not banished or harmed by confronting the king is because she always believed and if you believe God will protect you. The solution she comes up with is that she must confront the king of his actions. That she has faith in God and that she is willing to lose something to save a whole race. This shows that women can be heroes and that men aren’t always the hero of