If I have to sacrifice like Abraham
sacrificeD his son Isaac to God to prove his loyalty I, Mugabe Issah Maase will do it again and again and again and again.
Today is a day for celebrating the wonderful hope that we have in Jesus Christ and to thank God for
sacrificing His son for our...
I believed I was being tested to see if I was willing to
sacrifice my son in obedience to God.»
1 commited adultery, incest, and
almost sacrificed his son for the temptation from «God» (I belive it was Satan, makes more sense).
Eid al - Adha commemorates when God appeared to Abraham - known as Ibrahim to Muslims - in a dream and asked him to
sacrifice his son as an act of obedience.
In Abraham's situation, I most likely would not have had the faith that he had to be willing to
sacrifice his son per God's instruction.
From the very same rock, chosen by God, Abraham
nearly sacrificed his son, Jesus was crucified and Muhammad ascended into paradise to receive the order of daily prayer for Islam.
For eight years, Dr. Bash Pharoan, the president of the Baltimore County Muslim Council, has been lobbying the county schools to adopt school holidays on Eid al - Adha — the celebration of Abraham's willingness to
sacrifice his son Ishmael — and Eid...
After a while, God told Abraham to
sacrifice his son Isaac on an alter because either God was nervous that Abraham was not faithful or Abraham needed to be taught to give everything to God (it's hard to tell from the story!).
Once in prison, he came to accept that he had loved drugs more than his own life, but how could he live with the knowledge that he was willing to
sacrifice his son on the altar of his addiction?
The Governor in his Sallah message by his Media Adviser, Mr. Sola Fasure, tasked adherents of Islam to imbibe the lessons of commitment, dedication and obedience to higher authority as was demonstrated by Prophet Ibraheem's willingness to
sacrifice his son in obedience to the will of God which the Eid - El - Kabir commemorates.
Look at Abraham — he
almost sacrificed his son; David had someone killed to steal his wife; Hosea marries a prostitute; Moses was a murderer; Solomon was likely as close as we see an agnostic in any book of the bible (see ecclesiastes); Hosea marries a prostitute and Noah was a drunk.
Muslims across the world are preparing to celebrate the annual festival of Eid al - Adha, or the Festival of Sacrifice, which marks the end of the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca and in commemoration of Prophet Abraham's readiness to
sacrifice his son to show obedience to God.
A scholarly exploration of a neglected bond between Jews and Christians: the importance of
the sacrificed son, from Abraham to Golgatha.
For a moment, stop and try to comprehend that God
sacrificed His Son to die for our sins, and then you might realize that this life on this earth is not about sowing and reaping, or being born or dying, making money, getting ahead, etc., it is about a decision.
The greatness of Abraham is not that he takes his son to Mount Moriah, the Temple mount (the place where today stand both the Western Wall sacred to Jews and the Dome of the Rock sacred to Islam), so that he can
sacrifice his son.
For example, In Genesis 22 we see Abraham following God's instructions to
sacrifice his son.
The passage recounting how Abraham is asked to
sacrifice his son Isaac is disturbing and appalling to us because we know the nature of God through Christ.
Someone could say that God commanded Abraham to
sacrifice His son, and thus taught child sacrifice.
As Abraham was about to
sacrifice his son, God stopped him and gave him a sheep to kill in place of his son.
God had a man believe he was going to
sacrifice his son to Him.
There was a reason why God gave His firstborn for offering (Jesus); God
sacrificed his son.
If god * had * to
sacrifice his son to appease himself, according to some «angry gods» paradigm, then he was not in control of the paradigm, and could not have been it's creator.
When you have a world filled with liars and adulterers and murderers and greed and selfishness (even though we know what's right and what's wrong but we do it anyway) and the God that created you loves you so much that he needs to
sacrifice his Son for all of us who have not kept his Law, in order to wipe out those terrible sins, then you should be praying that you're counted as one who kept his Laws.
Also, for the first time, Abraham is told that his seed shall be victorious in wars with its enemies — which means, of course, that there will be later need for God - fearing men to
sacrifice their sons, this time in battle; in the absence of fathers who are willing to pay such a price, God's way on earth can not survive in the world against its enemies.
Father Abraham, I submit, is the model father, both of his family and of his people — yes, even in his willingness to
sacrifice his son — because he reveres God, the source of life and blessing, more than he loves his own.
Christians worship a god who, for some reason, decided that he must
sacrifice his son, so he could forgive the imperfectness of humans that he made to be imperfect.
The Mosque of Omar, as it is also known, is built on the place where traditionally Abraham had tried to
sacrifice his son Isaac / Ishmael and from where the Prophet Muhammad (570 - 632 CE) set out for his ascent to the seventh heaven).
I've had to
sacrifice my son.
If God really whispered in my ear and told me to
sacrifice my son.
One thing no one's said is that prior to the request from God to Abraham to
sacrifice his son Isaac, Abraham had a long and direct contact relationship with God over decades.