Abraham Simpson

Abraham and his wife, Sarah, have a son, in 2066BC, whose named Issac. Issac and his wife, Rebecca, have two sons named, in 2006BC, Jacob and Esau. Jacob with his two wives, Leah and Rachel, and his wives two handmaidens Bilhah and Zilpah, fathers a total of 12 sons and one daughter, sometime around 1921BC. Later on, his named is changed by God into Israel and the families of his 12 children become the Twelve Tribes of Israel, which later on they became known as the Israelites. The Old Testament

There is Nothing Too Hard For God The birth of Ishmael was the result of Abraham’s attempt to assist God. (Genesis 16) 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

rooted and involved in it. Actions prove how much faith you have. Without proof, your declaration of faith does not mean much. Abraham is an exceptionally worthy example of faith in God. I admire Abraham’s faith for many reasons. First, he wasn’t from a family that adopted faith in God. His family was pagan and didn’t have faith in God in the first place. Logically, Abraham had no foundation of belief either, unless he had strong faith in the power of God. He could either choose to live in comfortable

returned, but then 17 years later Jacob died at the age of 147. Joseph continued to live in Egypt with his family but then died at the age of 110. Before he died he promised that God will take his family to the Promised Land that was promised to Isaac, Abraham, and Jacob. He asked them to take his body with them. They embalmed his body and put it in a

In class, we discussed the types of covenants from the ancient world, as well as how Ancient Mesopotamians, the Hebrews, and Socrates lived according to the covenant their societies followed. A covenant is defined as an important agreement or contract between humans and the divine (Helfferich, Lecture). The Ancient Mesopotamians followed a standard covenant that stated humans were to serve the gods because this was the sole purpose of humanity. Mesopotamians believed it was the job of the ruler

of sacrifice of Isaac by the father Abraham; when god ordered Abraham to sacrifice Isaac and he was ready to do so when an angel came down and held the hand of Abraham and did not let him sacrifice Isaac. Jews belief that it was the test of Abraham and it was his time to proof his superior love towards god and that test he passed but god did not let him sacrifice Isaac. Seculars ask many questions on this story though; what kind of god is that who ordered Abraham to sacrifice his son, what was going

tell us of the miraculous events that happen during creation. This week’s reading tells us about four outstanding people that God hose to use to continue his promise of a redeemer to save his people. The first outstanding person we encounter is Abraham, who was born Abram. Abram was called by God, in other words, God spoke to Abram. God told Abram and his wife Sari; who later was changed to Sarah, to move from all that they knew, he promised to bless them

His Covenant… “And I will establish my covenant between me and you and your seed after you in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you, and to your seed after you.” Genesis 17:7 NKJV. Businesses around the world do business bases on contracts. And on a personal level people like to do business on the basis of a contract, where all the contingencies for both sides are spelled out. In the Bible, a covenant definition is literally, a contract. Today as its always been, God makes

After the flood, Noah is given dominion over the earth like the first human beings in the creation story. The two narrations are parallel. The end of the flood signifies this “restart” of humanity. Noah then worships God through sacrifice. “Noah built an altar to the Lord, and took of every clean animal and of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the alter. And when the Lord smelled the pleasing odor, the Lord said in his heart, “I will never again curse the ground because of humankind

of the Old Testament patriarchs, Abraham is mention 284 times in 265 verses of the NRSV. Lived either in the 22nd to 20th centuries BC (in the transition from Early Bronze IV to Middle Bronze I), or the 19th to 17th centuries BC (Middle Bronze II)—roughly a millennium before Homer. Abraham is the main figure or protagonist in the beginning of the narrative history of Israel. From Abraham all else comes by Abrahams covenant with God and Gods plans for the Abrahams family and lineage. He will be blessed