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1 | Why did God tell Abraham to kill his son | Gen 22:2 | bibleman12 | 214956 | ||
Hi John, Sorry you seem to be upset, it was not my intent. I know this is a very difficult question, that is why I came here, thinking you folks might could give a Biblical response. To this date after reading every single response I have not seen one response that tells why it was OK for Abraham to kill his son. If I have missed it you are welcome to point it out to me. I have a friend who needs desperately to ave an answer. |
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2 | Why did God tell Abraham to kill his son | Gen 22:2 | srbaegon | 214965 | ||
Part 2 F. W. Grant, Genesis: In Light of the New Testament (Speaking of Abraham and Isaac as pictures of God the Father and the Lord Jesus) "Isaac is undoubtedly the living type of Christ which gives Him to us most in the work He has done for God, and thus for us. For a moment, as it were, from the solemn institution of sacrifice the vail is almost removed. Man for man it is must suffer: man, but not this man. Isaac is withdrawn, and faith is left looking onward to the Lamb that 'God will provide for Himself' as a burnt offering. But if Isaac be the type of this, another comes no less distinctly into view. It is a father here who gives his son. Abraham seems, indeed, the most prominent figure, and necessarily for the type. It is the father’s will to which the son obediently gives himself. In the anti-type, the God who provides Himself the lamb answers to the father in this case. It is the Son of God who comes to do the Father’s will. But what a will, to be the Father’s! We wonder at this strange testing of a faith God held precious. Was it not worth the while to be honored with such a history? This was his justification by works now, God bringing out into open sight before others that which He Himself had long before seen and borne witness of. And then how wonderful to see in this display of a human heart the manifestation of the Father’s! How all is measured out to Abraham! But who can fail to see that in these elements of sorrow that filled to the brim the father’s cup we have the lineaments of a sacrifice transcending this immeasurably? Let us not fear to make God too human in thus apprehending Him. He has become a man to be apprehended. . . . Through all this trial of Abraham’s we must not miss the fact that the faith of resurrection cheers the father’s heart. The promises of God were assured in him, of whom He had said, 'In Isaac shall thy seed be called.' If therefore God called for him to be offered up, resurrection must restore him from the very flames of the altar; and 'in a figure,' as the apostle says, from the dead he was received. The figure of resurrection here it is very important to keep in mind, for it is to Christ in resurrection that the events following typically refer. In fact, Isaac is spared from death; and here occurs one of those double figures by which the Spirit of God would remedy the necessary defect of all figures to set forth Christ and His work. Isaac is spared; but there is substituted for him 'a ram caught in a thicket by his horns.' Picture of devoted self-surrender, as we have seen elsewhere the ram is; he is 'caught by his horns'—the sign (as others have noticed) of his power. . . . In a figure, however, Isaac is raised from the dead; and as risen, the promise is confirmed to him,—'In thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed.' It is Christ raised from the dead who is the only source of blessing to the whole world. The value and necessity of His sacrificial work are here affirmed. Death has passed upon all men, for that all have sinned; only beyond death, then, can there be fulfillment of the promise, however free." Steve |
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