To understand Abraham properly, one needs to understand the centrality of God’s covenant with Abraham. As the Fourth Eucharistic Prayer tells us, “Again and again [God] offered a covenant to ...

What Abraham was asked to surrender points to a truth modern hearts resist: that fatherhood, like faith, demands total self-gift.

Genesis 12:1-2 God instructed Abraham to leave his home ... uncircumcised male… shall have his soul cut off from his people; he has broken My covenant. — Genesis 17:11-14 Abraham kept this ...

For the believer, the answer is simple: God commanded Abraham, and ever since circumcision has been the mark of the covenant. For the academic historian, the answer is more complicated ...

They cut this covenant with blood and usually ... is the initiator and keeper of that covenant. God made covenants with Adam, Noah, Moses, Abraham, and David. But the greatest covenant of all ...

God establishes a covenant with Noah, Abraham, Moses, David and finally Jesus. In these succeeding covenants we see God expanding his covenant family until there is a one, holy, catholic ...

Abraham was the founder of Judaism and was the first to make a covenant with God. The first part of the covenant is known as the promised land and can be found in Genesis 12:1, where Abraham is ...

God instructed Abraham to leave his home and travel to Canaan, the Promised Land. Canaan was an ancient country close to modern-day Israel. In contrast with Abraham's home, Canaan was an arid ...

Abraham is an important figure in Christianity, Islam and Judaism. The story of Abraham can be found in the Book of Genesis - the first book in the Christian Bible and in the Torah of Judaism.