>> Read the story of Abraham and Isaac. God (not Lord God) tells Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac. Kill him. At the time, Isaac is the last of the bloodline. In the bible God is telling Abraham to end the bloodline. <<
Actually, it is you that I would encourage to read the story of Abraham and Isaac a bit closer. I would encourage you to read the New Testament as well, for the NT unveils the meaning of the Old Testament.
Long before God tested Abraham with the command to sacrifice his son Isaac, even before Isaac was born, we read:
And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him. (Gen 17.19)
Five chapters later...
And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am. And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of. (Gen 22.1-2)
There is little need for me to explain the reasoning behind the trial of Abraham. Sacred Scripture explains it perfectly:
By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son, Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called: Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure. (Hebrews 11.17-19)
Abraham recalled full well that even prior to the birth of his son Isaac, God had made an everlasting covenant with him, that his seed should inherit the promises and blessings.
Isaac carried the wood for his sacrifice on his back up the mountain.
Christ carried the wood of the Cross on his back up to Golgotha/Calvary.
A ram with its horns caught in the thicket was substituted in the place of Issac.
A crown of thorns was placed upon Christ's head, and Christ was sacrificed in place of the Isaac, the Church.
You do know that the members of the body of Christ are mystically likened to Isaac?
"Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise." (Galatians 4.28)
St. Paul informs the Christians in Galatia that they are the children of promise, not the faithless Jews.
Christians are likened to Isaac, and we were spared when Christ was caught in the thicket of a crown of thorns and fastened to the wood of the cross in our stead.
As I said to you months ago, Christians are not ignorant of the countless Old Testament references to the Cross, long before Christ appeared on earth in the flesh.
We are not so stupid as to believe that the Cross is just some pagan symbol that Christianity latched onto less than 2,000 years ago.
Holy Writ teaches us that Christ is the "Lamb slain from the foundation of the world." (Rev 13.8)
God's will before the world was ever formed was that his Son Jesus Christ would take on flesh from a Virgin, assuming our human nature, while fully remaining God, and would die on the Cross.
So it is complete nonsense to suggest that Christ or Christians picked up the symbol of the Cross as a pagan symbol from the Egyptians or some other source.
That is simply Jehovah's Witness propaganda. |
