the Bible (Part 22): Genesis 22

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1 And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am.
2 And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.
3 And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him.
4 Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off.
5 And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide ye here with the ass; and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again to you.
6 And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and laid it upon Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and a knife; and they went both of them together.
7 And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?
8 And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together.
9 And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood.
10 And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.
11 And the angel of the LORD called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I.
12 And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.
13 And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son.
14 And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovah-jireh: as it is said to this day, In the mount of the LORD it shall be seen.
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:
17 That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;
18 And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice.
19 So Abraham returned unto his young men, and they rose up and went together to Beer-sheba; and Abraham dwelt at Beer-sheba.
20 And it came to pass after these things, that it was told Abraham, saying, Behold, Milcah, she hath also born children unto thy brother Nahor;
21 Huz his firstborn, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel the father of Aram,
22 And Chesed, and Hazo, and Pildash, and Jidlaph, and Bethuel.
23 And Bethuel begat Rebekah: these eight Milcah did bear to Nahor, Abraham's brother.
24 And his concubine, whose name was Reumah, she bare also Tebah, and Gaham, and Thahash, and Maachah.

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[Man4God4eva]

@TheLittleDonkey ....the faith of Abraham in the goodness of God, and the faith of Isaac in not only his father who could have killed him but in the Lord to provide the sacrifice. Here is why God tested Abraham: Would Abraham obey God when he could not see all circumstances and still trust in Him, or would he refuse and doubt the Lord? What James refers to btw is in reference to God leading others to sin, which is against His character. Nice try at proving God's cruelty and hate anyway.

[TheLittleDonkey]

@Man4God4eva I guess that you think that blind obedience is a bad thing in all other cases except with regard to JHV, Correct?

[Ncxoxo]

An evil God would let Isaac kill his son, but he didnt showing then that He is a God who does not wishes this things, The fatherhas such a strong faith that he told the servants that they both would come back, showing then his belieave that God will rise Isacc from the death if nesesarry to fulfill his promess of a Saviour though him.

[TheLittleDonkey]

So, you are saying that God is evil then? Look to Judges 11 where God let Jephthah kill his daughter in pretty much the same manner.

[Dudex58]

its like predistined and fate,your will has to be strong enough to change it

[TheLittleDonkey]

I don't understand what you are saying.

[Man4God4eva]

@TheLittleDonkey ....that the LORD would first of all not order him to do something that was wrong and so was clearly testing him, and second, that the Lord had promised him that in Isaac would be the chosen seed (Genesis 21:12, Romans 9:7). As the book of Hebrews later relates, Abraham believed that God would raise up Isaac from the dead, (Hebrews 11:19) even before any resurrection were being talked of. What should be amazing to us as the readers is the faithfulness of God...

[Man4God4eva]

@TheLittleDonkey  I think you're mistaken in what you are assuming about Abraham in what he told Isaac. Nowhere does the account say that Abraham "tricked" his son Isaac into thinking he was just going to worship God. What after all does "worship" mean but to offer up something to God. What he told his son was that God would provide the ram in the stead of Isaac. This he said, not because he saw the ram in thicket at that time, but he had complete faith in the LORD....

[2rainmalt]

well in fact this is the book of moses, basis for judaism. christianity used the same god to declare the prophecies of ezekiel of a savior to come(ambiguous language) so christianity shows a god that doesnt speak to humans no more exept through prophets or angels or a jesus that never claimed himself to be a the son of god. bible refers to him as son of man. but liek charles manson techniques jesus leads to beleive the sheeps or followers that he is the annointed. although his messages is peace

[givingmantoo]

@Dudex58 I do not give a shit if you say atheist are dumb or not ... it does not change the fact that you believe in talking snakes and Jewish zombies.There is nothing to debate, when it comes to Christians. Your religion is bull shit, your arguments are cherry picking none sense and the morality of your religion is a vile set of idiotic bull shit ideologies. You can fool your self into thinking there is a debate, but the fact is christians are stupid. Sorry, that is a fact

[Dudex58]

@givingmantoo

I did not say any1 who was an atheist is dumb, unlike yourself who already judges with prejudice, I said and I quote myself again, that u can not debate or argue or de-swayed some1 from a belief, when u r starting off with the mythology wrong.

Again we believe in spirits, therefore the thing u r most mad about death, is not reason enough to stop our belief.

Mocking someone is no way to win a debate, or a good way of persuasion.

[givingmantoo]

@Dudex58 In reviewing your statement .... your religion is as muuch a fairy tale as the ones you mock. Just not as entertaining and the moral message in yours is pretyy shitty as well. So, you are still a dumb ass theist.

[givingmantoo]

@Dudex58 Well one does not have to make a christian look stupid, you all do that pretty well on your own. And it does matter, because your kind are imposing yourt bull shit on us all through legislation. Other wise you moron could beleive what ever you want, but the fact is your kind is actively forcing your none sence on us. Oh and as for heaven HA HA HA HA no such thing idiot