Comments on: the promised heir

By: Chrissy

Chrissy — Mon, 02 May 2005 14:48:11 +0000

Great post, Bran.

Another thing that I LOVE about Genesis 22 is verse 5: Abraham said to his young men, “Stay here with the donkey, and I and the lad will go over there; and we will worship and return to you.”

What faith! “…WE will worship and return to you.” He knew what God had commanded him and yet he had faith enough to believe that God would bring them both down fro the mount.m

By: cozart

cozart — Tue, 26 Apr 2005 16:26:48 +0000

quite a bit, actually. by the end of the M.Div program, we will have read the Bible once through, many sections more than once. in my Gospels class we were required to read all four twice, in my Pauline Epistles class we’re required to read all of the epistles twice, in my Genesis to Joshua class we’re required to read those through once, etc. we also have to give an account of how much we’ve read and lose big points if we don’t complete the reading.

to graduate, we’re also required to take the English Bible Exam which is pretty much just obscure references, so you have to know Scripture and where things are pretty well.

By: Richard

Richard — Tue, 26 Apr 2005 15:01:41 +0000

I’m curious… how much do they require you to read the bible? Do they have a number of times you have to read it, or anything like that?

By: Jeff H

Jeff H — Wed, 13 Apr 2005 01:42:51 +0000

That song by Andrew Peterson get me right. there. everytime I hear it.

By: Geof F. Morris

Geof F. Morris — Tue, 12 Apr 2005 20:29:29 +0000

Yeah, Abraham’s faith is undoubtedly amazing. Here he’s waited so long for the gift of an heir, and before his son can claim his heritage … BLAM!

When I was a kid, I always tried to picture my dad giving up my older brother. [Not because we fussed, but because he was prima genitur. ;)] What faith that would have to take with two kids, but just the one, at an age when conception again would have you radically unlikely to have kids again? Just amazing.

And yes, the Lord always provided the lamb … to Abraham, to the Israelites in Egypt and in the desert, and to us through Christ.