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So the Jews said to him, 'You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?' Jesus said to them, 'Truly, truly, I ...
Most of us have had “too good to be true” moments both in our “regular” lives and in our relationship with God, when the ...
autonomous person,” there’s still something of the old Abraham, say, when he’s bargaining with God about saving Sodom if ...
Christian theology has long recognized these “visitors” as the Triune God and seen in this passage one of the first allusions ...
To understand Abraham properly, one needs to understand the centrality of God’s covenant with Abraham. As the Fourth Eucharistic Prayer tells us, “Again and again [God] offered a covenant to ...
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 ...
Abraham was first known as Abram but when he followed God, he had his name changed. He lived with his family in Ur, believed to be in modern day Iraq. At that time, it is likely that the people of ...
Abraham was the founder of Judaism and was the first to make a covenant with God. The first part of the covenant is known as the promised land and can be found in Genesis 12:1, where Abraham is ...
This raises a major ethical question: Is it right for God to demand such a sacrifice, and what does it say about Abraham’s obedience? Would you have done the same? The post 11 Bible Stories That ...
That’s what you say when you don’t want to say ... not knowing where he was going.” Abraham just left his homeland and trusted God to direct his steps each day. We kept praying.
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.