Bible Questions Answered:
“Isn't this a bible error when God
told Abraham, after he stopped him from killing his son, that “for
now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy
son, thine only son from me.” Clearly God did not know before this
what Abraham would do. So God does not know everything as you
teach.....”
Henry/ Usingen, Germany (Hesse)
Bible Answer:
Bible Text:
Genesis 22:1-19 NLT (The faith
of Abraham tested.)
1 Some time later, God tested
Abraham’s faith. “Abraham!” God called. “Yes,” he
replied. “Here I am.”
2 “Take your son, your only
son—yes, Isaac, whom you love so much—and go to the land of
Moriah. Go and sacrifice him as a burnt offering on one of the
mountains, which I will show you.”
3 The next morning Abraham got up
early. He saddled his donkey and took two of his servants with him,
along with his son, Isaac. Then he chopped wood for a fire for a
burnt offering and set out for the place God had told him about.
4 On the third day of their journey,
Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance.
5 “Stay here with the donkey,”
Abraham told the servants. “The boy and I will travel a little
farther. We will worship there, and then we will come right
back.”
(Abraham's
Faith!)
6 So Abraham placed the wood for the
burnt offering on Isaac’s shoulders, while he himself carried the
fire and the knife. As the two of them walked on together,
7 Isaac turned to Abraham and said,
“Father?” “Yes, my son?” Abraham replied. “We have the fire
and the wood,” the boy said, “but where is the sheep for the
burnt offering?”
8 “God will provide a sheep
for the burnt offering, my son,” Abraham answered. And they
both walked on together.
9 When they arrived at the place
where God had told him to go, Abraham built an altar and arranged the
wood on it. Then he tied his son, Isaac, and laid him on the altar on
top of the wood.
10 And Abraham picked up the knife
to kill his son as a sacrifice.
11 At that moment The Angel Of The
Lord called to him from heaven, “Abraham! Abraham!” “Yes,”
Abraham replied. “Here I am!”
12 “Don’t lay a hand on the
boy!” the Angel said. “Do not hurt him in any way, for now I know
that you truly fear God. You have not withheld from me even your son,
your only son.”
13 Then Abraham looked up and saw a
ram caught by its horns in a thicket. So he took the ram and
sacrificed it as a burnt offering in place of his son.
14 Abraham named the place
Yahweh-Yireh ( Jehovah jireh) (which means “the Lord will
provide”). To this day, people still use that name as a
proverb: “On the mountain of The Lord it will be provided.”
15 Then The Angel Of The Lord called
again to Abraham from heaven.
16 “This is what The Lord says:
Because you have obeyed Me and have not withheld even your son, your
only son, I swear by My own name that
17 I will certainly bless you. I
will multiply your descendants beyond number, like the stars in the
sky and the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will conquer the
cities of their enemies.
18 And through your descendants all
the nations of the earth will be blessed—all because you have
obeyed Me.”
19 Then they returned to the
servants and traveled back to Beersheba, where Abraham continued to
live.
Genesis 22:1 NLT
Some time later, God tested
Abraham’s faith. “Abraham!” God called. “Yes,” he
replied. “Here I am.”
As the scripture
states, this was a “test,” of Abraham's faith, not of God's
knowledge!
Question:
“But, Pastor, if God knew that Abraham would pass the test, why the
test in the first place?”
Answer:
1) Abraham, need to know it, for himself.
1) Abraham, need to know it, for himself.
2) These actions were but a prefiguring of what would take place with God's Son, The Lord Jesus.
(Genesis 3:15/ Isaiah 53:)
(Genesis 3:15/ Isaiah 53:)
God's
Omniscience:
Job 31:4 KJV
Doth not He see my ways, and count
all my steps?
Job 34:21 KJV
For His eyes are upon the ways of
man, and He seeth all his goings.
Psalm 147:5 KJV
Great is our Lord, and of great
power: His understanding is infinite.
Isaiah 46:9,10
KJV
9 Remember the former things of old:
for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none
like Me,
10 Declaring the end from the
beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done,
saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all My pleasure:
John 2:24 KJV
But Jesus did not commit Himself
unto them, because He knew all men,
John 16:30 KJV
Now are we sure that thou knowest
all things, and needest not that any man should ask thee: by this we
believe that thou camest forth from God.
John 21:17 KJV
He saith unto him the third time,
Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou Me? Peter was grieved because He
said unto him the third time, Lovest thou Me? And he said unto Him,
Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus
saith unto him, Feed my sheep.
Acts 1:24 KJV
And they prayed, and said, Thou,
Lord, which knowest the hearts of all men, shew whether of these two
thou hast chosen,
Romans 8:28,29
KJV
28 And we know that all things work
together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called
according to His purpose.
29 For whom He did foreknow, He also
did predestinate to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He
might be the firstborn among many brethren.
Hebrews 4:13 KJV
Neither is there any creature that
is not manifest in His sight: but all things are naked and opened
unto the eyes of Him with whom we have to do.
I John 3:20 KJV
For if our heart condemn us, God is
greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.
Does God try our
lives? Yes, and He is trying your life and mine. At the end of life,
what will the test scores show?
The Word:
Job 23:10 KJV
But He knoweth the way that I take:
when He hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Psalm 17:3 KJV
Thou hast proved mine heart; thou
hast visited me in the night; thou hast tried me, and shalt find
nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.
Psalm 66:10 KJV
For thou, O God, hast proved us:
thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.
Isaiah 48:10 KJV
Behold, I have refined thee, but not
with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.
Zechariah 13:8,9
NLT
8...“But one-third will be left in
the land.
9 I will bring that group through
the fire and make them pure. I will refine them like silver and
purify them like gold. They will call on My name, and I will answer
them. I will say, ‘These are My people,’ and they will say, ‘The
Lord is our God.’”
Malachi 3:3 KJV
And He shall sit as a refiner and
purifier of silver: and He shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge
them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto The Lord an
offering in righteousness.
Luke 6:47,48 KJV
47 Whosoever cometh to Me, and
heareth My sayings, and doeth them, I will shew you to whom he is
like:
48 He is like a man which built an
house, and digged deep, and laid the foundation on A Rock: and when
the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently upon that house, and
could not shake it: for it was founded upon A Rock.
I Corinthians
3:11-15 KJV
11 For other foundation can no man
lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
12 Now if any man build upon this
foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble;
13 Every man's work shall be made
manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed
by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is.
14 If any man's work abide which he
hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.
15 If any man's work shall be
burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so
as by fire.
I Peter 1:7 KJV
That the trial of your faith, being
much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried
with fire, might be found unto praise and honor and glory at the
appearing of Jesus Christ:
I Peter 4:12 KJV
Beloved, think it not strange
concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some
strange thing happened unto you:
The trial of your
faith, is it strong and full of courage, in The Lord?
Or is it faltering
and weak?
Today, call on the
name of The Lord, He will call you unto Himself, and strengthen you!
Psalm 18:1 KJV
I will love thee, O Lord, my
Strength.
Psalm 18:2 KJV
The Lord is my Rock, and my
Fortress, and my Deliverer; my God, my Strength, in whom I will
trust; my Buckler, and The Horn Of My Salvation, and my High Tower.
Psalm 18:32 KJV
It is God that girdeth me with
strength, and maketh my way perfect.
Psalm 18:39 KJV
For thou hast girded me with
strength unto the battle:
Psalm 19:14 KJV
Let the words of my mouth, and the
meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my
Strength, and my Redeemer.
Psalm 27:1 KJV
The Lord is my Light and my
Salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the Strength of my life; of
whom shall I be afraid?
Psalm 27:14 KJV
Wait on The Lord: be of good
courage, and He shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on The
Lord.
Psalm 28:7 KJV
The Lord is my Strength and my
Shield; my heart trusted in Him, and I am helped: therefore my heart
greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise Him.
Psalm 29:11 KJV
The Lord will give strength unto His
people; The Lord will bless His people with peace.
Psalm 31:24 KJV
Be of good courage, and He shall
strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in The Lord.
Psalm 37:39 KJV
But the salvation of the righteous
is of The Lord: He is their Strength in the time of trouble.
Psalm 43:2 KJV
For thou art The God of my Strength:
Psalm 46:1 KJV
God is our Refuge and Strength, a
very present Help in trouble.
Psalm 59:17 KJV
Unto thee, O my Strength, will I
sing: for God is my Defense, and the God of my Mercy.
Psalm 62:7 KJV
In God is my Salvation and my Glory:
The Rock of my Strength, and my Refuge, is in God.
Psalm 68:35 KJV
O God, thou art terrible out of thy
holy places: the God of Israel is He that giveth Strength and Power
unto His people. Blessed be God.
Psalm 73:26 KJV
My flesh and my heart faileth: but
God is The Strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.
Psalm 81:1 KJV
Sing aloud unto God our Strength:
make a joyful noise unto The God Of Jacob.
Psalm 84:5 KJV
Blessed is the man whose strength is
in thee;
Psalm 105:4 KJV
Seek The Lord, and His strength:
seek His face evermore.
Psalm 118:14 KJV
The Lord is my Strength and Song,
and is become my Salvation.
Psalm 138:3 KJV
In the day when I cried thou
answeredst me, and strengthenedst me with strength in my soul.
Psalm 140:7 KJV
O God The Lord, The Strength of my
salvation, thou hast covered my head in the day of battle.
Psalm 144:1 KJV
Blessed be The Lord my Strength
Proverbs 10:29
KJV
The way of The Lord is Strength to
the upright:
Ephesians 3:16
KJV
That He would grant you, according
to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might by His
Spirit in the inner man;
Philippians 4:13
KJV
I can do all things through Christ
which strengtheneth me.
Colossians 1:11
KJV
Strengthened with all might,
according to His glorious power, unto all patience and long suffering
with joyfulness;
1 Peter 5:10 KJV
But The God Of All Grace, who hath
called us unto His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have
suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.
