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said, “Here am I, my son.” He said, “Behold, the fire and the wood; but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?” Abraham said, “God will provide himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son.” So they went both of them together. When they came to the place of which God had told him, Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar, upon the wood. Then Abraham put forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son. But the angel of the Lord spoke to him from heaven, and said, “Abraham, Abraham!” And he said, “Here am I.” He said, “Do not lay your hand on the lad or do anything to him; for now I know that you fear God, seeing you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.”(Genesis 22:6-12) Given the Hebrew mindset since then, the prophetic future was cemented as God, seeing that Abraham trusted him with his present day and his future. He substituted a goat instead of the life of Isaac. Thus in the Hebrew scripture a great inheritance is described as given to Isaac, the ancestor of the Israeli nation. We also hear that the Muslim faith recalls the same event. However, their version offers that this privilege rightly belongs not to Isaac, but to Ishmael… given that he was Abraham’s first born son. They contend the Israeli mountaintop experience recorded is moot since the rightful inheritor Ishmael had not been banished, but was really the one taken to the mountain. The differing interpretations of this religious record likely set up an enmity between the future Hebrew and Muslim faiths. This deep chasm persists between the two great belief systems and thus we inherit a near timeless dilemma. Strong adherents about who are the “chosen” people wrestle violently and militarily, even in today’s time. The strife from this dilemma has caused persons of atheistic view to demean religious discourse. As time passed in history, however, we Christians believed that God offered his own “Chosen One”. You see, each of these two religious systems performed various prayers, blood offerings and lifestyles to justify sinful participants before God... and to lesser or greater degree they still do. Their traditional practices have changed little over past centuries, though try as they might… their purity of sacrifice cannot be found as everlasting for them. Both religious strains have offered much, including the lives of other human beings and their own as martyrs… to please our Creator. Therefore |
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