Research Paper On Abram

God promised Abram three promises which the narrator repeated several times. It is important to know to understand the rest of the bible. The first promise was that Arbam would have a great nation. The second promise to Abram was that the lad he was standing on would be for him and his people and family. The final promise was that God would bless the whole earth through one of his descendants. God created a covenant with Abram and renamed him Abraham. This was a patron covenant. It is a covenant that solely depends on God and does not rely on others.

Abraham and Sarah’s hospitality does not pass unnoticed. The LORD recognizes their zealous hospitality and rewards their act of piety with a miraculous gift: offspring. Remembering the barren state of Sarai, the LORD, through the travelers, questions Abraham, “Where is your wife Sarah?” (18:9). The LORD’s working through the travelers to reward Abraham is symbolic of the fact that Abraham will have offspring because of the hospitality that he and his wife show the travelers. The LORD matches Abraham’s fervent dedication to hospitality with an incredible gift. Via the travelers, the LORD promises, “I will surely return to you in due season, and your wife Sarah shall have a son” (18:10). The extent of this gift is too much for Sarah to believe, so she laughs it off (18:12). This laugh is significant in quantifying how immense the reward is. Sarah laughs because she is uncomfortable with the truth of her current situation; she does not believe that she will ever be relieved from her barren plight. Much like Abraham went out of his way to provide a haven for the travelers, the LORD similarly matches this action with a haven of His own—the baby.

The covenant dominates the relationship, and was created to teach Abraham how to live in a civilized manner. We can prove that the relationship between the two is a guiding one because God speaks unto Abraham, saying “Be thou perfect” Gen 17.1, during the formation of the covenant. God means to guide Abram in two distinct ways to bring him closer to refinement. The first is changing Abram’s name to Abraham. This represents the changing of Abram’s purpose in life, away from a husband with no children, to a father of a multitude of nations. The second change is the

God’s covenant with Abram, whose name was later changed to Abraham, was to be the father of many nations. The covenant includes promises concerning a land covenant, a seed covenant, and a blessing covenant. The foundation will flow out of the “Seed Covenant” to his descendants Isaac and Jacob, through whom the twelve tribes of Israel were born.

During Abigale time constant stress was about war being around thornier, or spending time with your spouse. With Abigale husband always off to political affairs, she stayed behind alone stuck with the fear of being invaded. Although she was a wise woman, she was under much stress. In America today family is close all helping each other. Abigale had to handle it all on her own. Watching the house and family, while providing education and handling finances. She stated “sacrifice to my country”

Who was this man Avraham, whom Hashem chose to enter into an everlasting covenant? Avraham was the son of a pagan, and grew up in an environment of evil. But he rose above this environment and created a way of life and religion we call our heritage. He chose to be different to become the first Hebrew, (which means literally “from the other side”), he spoke with moral standards of his time, and pursued his quest for a better and more meaningful way.

In the story the binding of Isaac, God’s plan was not to tempt Abraham, but to test him to see if Abraham had faith and would put God above all else, even his own son Isaac. In doing this God wanted to demonstrate the importance of faith and trust in Him. God did not condemn the sacrifice of children. God despises the “hand that shed innocent blood” (Prov. 6:17). It’s crucial to remember that God put a stop to the sacrifice of Isaac. God never wanted Isaac to be sacrificed, his only motive was testing Abraham’s loyalty. Abraham, along with many other followers believe that God is the creator of the Earth and the Heavens, which means God has the right to

Absalom Macky, a boy with eyes as blue as the sea and hair as red as an apple, spent his entire childhood jumping from one foster family to another. Nobody wanted to harbor such a wild child. From breaking toys in grade school to breaking windows in future years he was the wild child. His mother died from overdosing on prescription painkillers and his father took a bullet for his country. After years of unsuccessful homes Absalom is placed with an unconventional family. Richard and Dimitrios, a same sex couple, and on top of this an interracial partnership. Absalom doesn’t think much of it as he doesn’t see himself spending more than a month with them, or so he thought.

Even though this was an hard thing for Abraham to except he went along with God's plan. So Abraham brought his son Isaac, two servants and a donkey along on his trip to the Moriah region to a mountain. As they came to the mountain the time had come Unknowing Isaac was tied up and Abraham pulled out his knife. However God sent an angel to stop Abraham he had passed his test. So God ended up rewarding Abraham all because he kept the faith in God and did what he was told.

During these chapters nine generations of Shem’s descendants, the Semites pass through. In the beginning of these chapters God calls on Abram, who is living with his father Terah and his wife Sarai on Haran. God makes a covenant with Abram, promising to make Abrams’s descendants into a great nation. Abram agrees to leave is home and move southwest to Canaan with his wife and his nephew, Lot, to a land that God has promised to give to Abram’s descendants. Abram takes up residence there and erects a number of altars throughout the land as symbols of his devotion to God.

In the 11th century, Spanish Rabbi Yona Ibn Janach wrote that God only wanted a symbolic sacrifice; He didn’t actually want Abraham to kill Isaac. Many rabbis claimed that God would never command such a horrific act. Others also note that Abraham was willing to do anything to spare his son. He was even willing go against the divine command. In addition, although it was God gave Abraham the orders, it was an angel, a subordinate being in the holy hierarchy, that stopped him. In a few later Jewish writings, the idea of God’s test of faith is rejected, and the sacrifice of Isaac is seen as a punishment for Abraham's previous "mistreatment" of his oldest son, Ishmael, who he kicked out at his wife’s request. However, this theory is rather misleading because the Bible states that God agreed with Abraham’s wife and actually insisted that Ishmael leave. Moreover, Rabbi Menachem Mendel said that, “as great a Mitzvah as it is, this test is considered trivial for someone of the spiritual stature of Isaac,” (Gen. Rabba 47:6), who represented the godly traits of kindness, strictness, and compassion. The one truly tested was Abraham in order to see whether or not he would doubt God's words. Remarkably, Abraham believed with faith, that this is what God was telling him to do now, this must be the right thing to do. Some Jewish scholars, such as Lippman Bodoff, believe that Abraham was never really going to sacrifice his son because he actually had faith that God never intended to go through with it. In this theory, Abraham's compliance was in fact his way of testing

The Christ of the Covenants demonstrates the relationship between five covenants God instigated with Adam, Abraham, Noah, Moses, and David in the Old Testament, and how they are reflected in Jesus’ birth, death, and resurrection in the New Testament. In answering four basic questions, I discovered this main idea to be true time and time again. Robertson exhibits his vast knowledge of the subject with a concisely structured index outlining one clear point for the entire novel.

Thirteen years after the birth of Ishmael (Abraham was ninety-nine years old), the LORD repeated His promise to Abraham and made clear that Sarah would bear the child of promise. (Genesis 17 & 21) The fact that “Abraham fell on his face and laughed” is an indication that he did not laugh at God as certain people have thought; rather, he laughed at the idea of a son being born to a hundred year old man and a ninety year old woman. That notion, from the human perspective, was laughable; nonetheless, he accepted it. Abraham’s laugh was not a mocking or sneering act, but one of doubt concerning such an outrageous idea. Yet,

God promised to give Abraham a son and that he would be the father of many, despite the fact that he was 99 years old and his wife Sarah was 90, way past the normal age to have children. Nevertheless, Abraham trusted in God and as his faith grew more vigorous, the Lord told him to offer his son Isaac as a sacrifice to prove his faith. Abraham obeyed and brought Isaac to Mount Moriah, laid him on the altar and at the last minute God told him not to execute Isaac, but instead gave him a ram to sacrifice. Abraham’s faith had been tested and proved, by believing and listening to God. It wasn't that he was a superior man than others, yet simply that he was faithful in his relationship with God and the Lord reckoned it as

     Abraham stands as one of the most important figures in the Hebrew Bible, and is central to the understanding of God’s solution to the problem of mankind. Man, the mysterious creature that God wraught as a semi-experiment, is constantly prone to believe he is self-sufficient and capable of survival without God, the central problem God must deal with in the Hebrew Bible. To solve this problem, God decides to strike fear in the heart of man and to revolutionise his lifestyle by creating laws and empowering a chosen group of people, who will spread the word of God by example. These people are the Hebrews, and Abraham is the father of their race, the man from whom all