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NASB | Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God (Elohim) created [by forming from nothing] the heavens and the earth. [Heb 11:3] |
Bible Question:
When Abraham was asked to sacrifice his son was that just a story because when God asked him to give up his son was that not to take a life. The commadments say "Thou shall not kill". |
Bible Answer: Greetings: First of all Abraham lived a long time before the ten commandments were given. It is a real account of a man who believed the promises of God. If we were to read the story of Abraham who was called by God out of Ur to a country which God would show him. God made a promise to Abraham that his seed would bring blessing upn all the families of the earth. Abraham and Sarah were quite old, past child bearing years. Nevertheless God allowed them to have a son Isaac who all the promises of God to Abraham depended on. Naturally, speaking Abraham would wonder at this strange request from God "take now your son, your only son ...and offer him for a burnt offering"Genesis 22v.2 If you read the story carefully it is a wonderful picture of God the Father who sent his son Jesus to the place of sacrifice and offered him for our sins. Abraham took God at his word and by faith he carried out what God had asked him to do. God was testing Abraham's faith. In Gen. 22v.12 God said "know I know thou fearest God, seeing thou has not withheld your only son" In Hebrews 11: -19 we have God's approval of Abraham's faith. Abraham believed that if he actually offered Isaac that God would raise him from the dead. Abraham believed God. As we know in the account God provided a subsitute for Isaac, a ram caught in the thicket. God never intended to allow Abraham to kill his son. He intended to test Abraham with an ultimate test of faith. Robert |
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