Abraham lies to Isaac and tells him they're going to sacrifice a sheep.
When Isaac asks Abraham where the sheep is, Abraham tells him, "The Lord God will provide..."
It would behoove you to make a more careful examination of sacred Scripture, rather than seeking to mock that which you do not understand.
For starters, the Scripture does not say, "The Lord God will provide..." as you misquoted.
It says God [i.e. Elohim], not "Lord God". You are the one who is trying to make some distinction between "God" and "Lord God" [Yahweh Elohim].
The Greek Septuagint reads "Theos".
I don't see how you can say that Abraham lied?? Events came to pass just as he promised. God did provide a ram, which is a male sheep.
Actually, most English translations read "lamb", and as St. John the Baptist said when he saw Christ coming to him when he was baptizing: "Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world."
Abraham foresaw that God would provide Christ the Lamb of God as a sacrifice on behalf of his posterity.
"Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad." (John 8.56)
"And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed." (Galatians 3.8) |
