The greatest title and attribute that is reserved only for the God of the Bible is Omnipotent, which means He has unlimited ...

We stand today, like Abraham, atop the mountain, facing the delicate challenge of reconciling morality and prophecy.

Through sacrifice and unwavering faith, Abraham’s covenant with God prefigures the greater fulfillment in Christ, as depicted in sacred art through the ages.

Isaac is the fulfillment of God’s promise, the long-awaited and almost-despaired-of biological heir and heir of the covenant. Now God asks Abraham to sacrifice him.

What God promises seems too good to be true. Abraham, we are told, “fell face down and laughed as he said to himself, ‘Can a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old?

No, promises God. Abraham’s descendants will outnumber the stars of heaven (imagine what that looked like to a man in the middle of a desert without light pollution). And Abraham believed him ...

So God’s promise to Prophet Abraham, that the other families of humankind will ultimately bless themselves, and one another, thus aspiring to be like Abraham’s descendants (Genesis 12:3; 18:18 ...

And God himself delivers that promise. Abraham is sitting at the entrance of his tent under the oaks of Mamre. He sees three “visitors” approaching him in the scorching sun.