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Buzzard said:
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LifeIn said:
You must admit that child sacrifice is devilish, right? Stop and think about that for a minute to make sure you agree. OK? Done considering that? Now tell me how you judge God who commanded a child sacrifice when He told Abraham to sacrifice his only son, Isaac? If Abraham were thinking like you, he might have thought "
That couldn't God telling me to do that because it is devilish! No way am I going through with this!".
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well one thing is for sure;
someone is missing the point
Abraham the Father of the Children of Israel
there is far more than meets the eye here in this story
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Gen. 22:15
And the angel of the Lord called unto Abraham
out of heaven the second time,
16 And said,
By myself have I sworn, saith the Lord,
for because thou hast done this thing,
and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son:
...
And it came to pass after these things, that it was told Abraham,
saying,
Hey Abraham;
I have soon
good news for you
Behold, Milcah, she hath also born children unto thy brother Nahor;
Huz his firstborn, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel the father of Aram,
And Chesed, and Hazo, and Pildash, and Jidlaph, and Bethuel.
And Bethuel begat
Rebekah:
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Posters do you think for one moment,
Abraham did not know whou
"his most trusted Servant":
would be bringing home.
Predestiation
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LifeIn said:
You must admit that child sacrifice is devilish, right? Stop and think about that for a minute to make sure you agree. OK? Done considering that? Now tell me how you judge God who commanded a child sacrifice when He told Abraham to sacrifice his only son, Isaac? If Abraham were thinking like you, he might have thought "
That couldn't God telling me to do that because it is devilish! No way am I going through with this!".
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and we will be getting into
as Paul Harvey says
"the rest of the story"
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We all know the rest of the story. But at the time God asked Abraham to sacrifice his only son, he could not know that God would stop him at the last minute and substitute a ram caught in the bushes. For if Abraham did know that God was only testing him, it would not have been a real test of whether Abraham was really ready to truly sacrifice his son. This passage has been one of the most puzzling passages in all of Scripture, prompting numerous commentaries to try to explain it.
However my point still stands, which is when God speaks, Man cannot judge God, even if we cannot understand or justify why God would say that. Just as God's instructions to Abraham seems contrary to God's own law, Abraham did not judge God. Similarly, when Christ says "this is my blood - take and drink", we cannot judge Christ and say "Christ would never tell us to break the prohibition on drinking blood - how disgusting!" We take God at His word even when God's word does not seem to make sense to us.
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Lifein says;
This passage has been one of the most puzzling passages in all of Scripture, prompting numerous commentaries to try to explain it.
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only to the theologians; Lifein; only to the theologians;
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the Babe's / Babies in Christ
Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again,
he cannot see the kingdom of God.
as Christ said many times
Thank you father for hidding these things,
but revealing them unto babes
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Deut. 9:28
Remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob;
look not unto the stubbornness of this people,
nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin:
28 Lest the land whence thou broughtest us out say,
Because the Lord was not able
to bring them into the land which he promised them,
and because he hated them,
he hath brought them out to slay them in the wilderness.
Lk.14:28
For which of you, intending to build a tower,
sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost,
whether he have sufficient to finish it?
29 Lest haply, after he hath laid the foundation,
and is not able to finish it,
all that behold it begin to mock him,
Saying,
This man began to build, and was not able to finish.
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God is using Abraham
the Father of many nations
to show the world what it will cost to
"Redeem the Son's of Jacob"
the 12 tribes
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Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest,
It shows the world, what it would cost the Father
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for God so loved the world, he sent his only son
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Issac was well capeable of saying no, not me
and outrunning a 100 year old man
know ye not, he could have called 10,000 angels to set himself free,
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its a test of Issac which prefigured / Christ the promised son;
what it would cost him / Christ to be the redeemer
for the Sons of Jacob.
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For which of you, intending to build a tower,
sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost,
whether he have sufficient to finish it?
29 Lest haply, after he hath laid the foundation,
and is not able to finish it,
all that behold it begin to mock him,
.
Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again,
he cannot see the kingdom of God.
as Christ said many times
Thank you father for hidding these things,
but revealing them unto babes