Through sacrifice and unwavering faith, Abraham’s covenant with God prefigures the greater fulfillment in Christ, as depicted ...

Pieter Lastman’s 1614 painting captures the biblical moment when Abraham leaves everything behind to follow God’s call.

autonomous person,” there’s still something of the old Abraham, say, when he’s bargaining with God about saving Sodom if ...

So in a mythic kind of way we can say that Abraham recognizes God and that Abraham launches the process—biological and social and cultural—that will culminate in the people of Israel ...

Abraham was now able to envision God in a new way because he himself had ... “A suffering person should not say: ‘That’s bad. That’s bad.’ Nothing God imposes on a human is bad.

How is it that you say, 'You will be made free ... a man who has told you the truth which I heard from God; this is not what Abraham did. 41 You do what your father did." They said to him ...

I will make of you a great nation, And I will bless you. — Genesis 12:1-2 God instructed Abraham to leave his home and travel to Canaan, the Promised Land, which is today known as Israel.

Hebrews 11:8 says, “By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed by going out to the place which he was to receive for any ...

How is it that you say, 'You will be made free ... a man who has told you the truth which I heard from God; this is not what Abraham did. 41 You do what your father did." They said to him ...