Genesis 22:1-19: Meditation the Biblical Essay

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He mourns the circumstances of the world that demands the sacrifice, even while he gives it willingly, trusting in the goodness of God and God's larger plan. Having faith does not mean that one does not feel sorrow at the inevitable. It is not sinful to feel sad that physical death is a part of the human, fallen world. A woman who loses her elderly mother will still weep, even though she knows that death comes to us all even while she also believes that eternal life comes to us all. The tears, like Abraham's heavy heart, are evidence of our humanity, even while, like Abraham, we believe that God will spare us at the end of time.

Simultaneously in the moment of losing a loved one, with the same heavy heart felt by Abraham, believers also know that God will provide the sacrifice for the burnt offering -- God's only Son. Christians have long read Genesis 22 as a typological foreshadowing of Jesus' sacrifice for the sins of humanity on the cross.

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Isaac is a young innocent and a miraculous gift from God to the childless Abraham. Jesus is similarly given and taken away as a sacrifice in a manner that parallels Isaac: although Jesus suffers and dies in the physical world, the Son lives on in a reborn, physical and spiritual sense, like Isaac lives another day.

God's demand of Abraham shows that He does not ask of human beings more than He is willing to give himself: God gives His son, His faith and trust in human redemption, and gives His gift freely, without preconditions, as Abraham readied his sacrifice of Isaac. Of course, Abraham, a human being, could only trust in providence and could not foresee the larger plan of God in the demand of such a sacrifice, anymore than we humans can fully comprehend the sacrifices God demands of us. However, we can learn from Abraham's spiritual example.

Soren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling, (Cambridge:….....

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