who was it in the old testament that was going to sacrifice is son until god stopped him ?

Question

Did It inspire God sacrefice is son ?

Answer 1

The main point of the account, which your answers above don't seem to have picked up on (with the exception of Ivan B), is that Abraham was fully persuaded that God would raise his (only) son up again.



So incidentally was Isaac, who meekly and willingly accepted himself as the sacrifice, trusting in his father and God and thereby perfectly illustrating Christ's humility in meekly and willingly going to the Cross in accordance with His Father's Will.



Behold the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world!



Thus he believed in God's Promise and the Resurrection.



Abraham is known as the Father of faith.



In this way salvation is illustrated to be by the Promise of God through belief in the Resurrection.



This was actually accomplished in Jesus Christ the seed (descendant) of Abraham, Who made the covenant with the Father, the Promise of God, as Abram's Representative in Genesis 15.



God inspired Abraham to this faith to illustrate and point out the necessary sacrifice of His Son to fulfill the Promise previously given, for our salvation.





But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach;

That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.



We are called to that same faith.

Answer 2

Abraham was told to go and sacrifice his son his one and only son, the son of promise, on the mountain that I (God said) will show, The Mountain was Mt Moriah, when Abraham, Isaac and the servants left, a strange thing occurred - no sacrifice was taken with them. The closer they get Isaac asks the question who is at the age of 12-14, "Father the knife is here, so is the fire, where is the lamb for the burnt offerring?" Abraham replied to his son, "God will provide a lamb". Going further, Abraham told the servants wait here and Isaac and I will return later. Abraham and Isaac continue on to the place God showed to Abraham, Abraham and Isaac built the altar, Isaac help in gathering the wood. Then when it was time for the offerring, Abraham calmly took his son, and told him that he was the promise inheritance, the child of promise, a miracle child, and laid him on the altar and raising his hand in with one movement -- the angel of Lord cried out "Abraham Abraham, Do not lay a hand on the boy for truly I know that you obey me and have not withheld your son, your only son Isaac." Abraham looked immediately up and caught in a thicke was a ram which Abraham took and used as a substitute for his son Isaac.



The moment that God had asked Abraham to sacrificice his son, Isaac in Abrahams mind was dead, he had completed the very act, not knowing how he would receive him back, for the promises and the covenant God had given him were invested in Isaac. So when the book of Hebrews says that Abraham received him back from the dead is true!



The story is not to inspire God to sacrifice his son - but for us to know that Jesus was not a last minute suggestion or idea of God - The death burial and resurrection of Christ was agreed upon before the foundation of the world in a divine counsel meeting that all three had and all three agreed upon!

Answer 3

Abraham. Abraham didnt WANT to sacrifice his son, God told Him to as a test of faith. When God saw that Abraham was ready to obey Him, He saved the son (Isaac) and provided a ram for sacrifice instead.

No it did not inspire God, Jesus' sacrifice had been planned before the earth began.

God bless

Answer 4

Abraham.

The offering of sacrifices was started at the very beginning, with Adam and Eve and their children. God knew what would happen to his Son and established animal sacrifices of the first born of the flocks as a pattern of the sacrifice that would be made by his Son. The sacrifices were typically first born, without blemish and the sacrifice itself was the death of the animal.



Genesis 4

4 And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock



And Abraham was quite prophetic in his statement that God would provide a lamb (literally, the lamb of God, Jesus Christ).



Genesis 22

8 And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together.



It is also symbolic that Isaac is Abraham's only son, whom he loved. (Gen 22:3) (also a miraculous birth foretold by an angel, the same as Jesus was)_

Answer 5

God told Abraham to sacrifice Isaac as a test to see if Abraham loved God more than he loved his own son. This did not inspire God to sacrifice Jesus as God had already planned to sacrifice His son before creation.

Answer 6

It was Abraham and no it didn't inspire God to sacrifice His own son. God had it all planned from the beginning of time. Before the world was even created God planned on sending his son, Jesus into this world to die on the cross and take the punishment for our sins so that we can go to heaven to be with him forever. We just have to believe and accept that amazing free gift. Amazing, mind blowing stuff!

Answer 7

Abraham

Answer 8

Abraham

Answer 9

Abraham was told to sacrifice Isaac. The purpose was so that it could be recorded so that we could understand what real faith is. His faith was counted as righteousness by God and of course, God did not allow it to happen.



No this was not an inspiration for God to sacrifice Himself in the form of the man Jesus. That was already planned before man was here.

Answer 10

Abraham was ordered by God to sacrifice Issac, his son. It was a test. When Abraham showed he was willing to do it, God told him to stop.

Answer 11

Abraham.

Answer 12

Abraham.

Answer 13

You're talking about Abraham and his son , Isaac .

Answer 14

Abraham and then the angel came..

we cant know but i think He was already planning Plan B

Answer 15

It was Abraham and it did not inspire God's sacrifice, but foreshadowed it.

Answer 16

Abraham, but God was only testing him to see if he had enough trust, in God to do it.

Answer 17

God asked Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac as a perverted test of his devotion. The biblical passage is below.



I agree with you that the story of Abraham sacrificing his son Isaac is eerily similar to God sacrificing the life of his own son, Jesus. The murder of one's own child is called filicide: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filicide



Paternal filicide, where a father kills his child, has relevance in today's biblically inspired cultures as well where killing a daughter who is deemed to have disgraced the family is a common occurrence. These are called honor killings: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honor_killing



Genesis 22:2-19

Then God said to Abraham, "Take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love, and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains I will tell you about."



…. Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and placed it on his son Isaac, and he himself carried the fire and the knife. As the two of them went on together, Isaac spoke up and said to his father Abraham, "Father?"



"Yes, my son?" Abraham replied.



"The fire and wood are here," Isaac said, "but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?"



Abraham answered, "God himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son." And the two of them went on together.



When they reached the place God had told him about, Abraham built an altar there and arranged the wood on it. He bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood. Then he reached out his hand and took the knife to slay his son.



But the angel of the LORD called out to him from heaven, "Abraham! Abraham!"



"Here I am," he replied.



"Do not lay a hand on the boy," he said. "Do not do anything to him. Now I know that you fear God, because you have not withheld from me your son, your only son."



Abraham looked up and there in a thicket he saw a ram caught by its horns. He went over and took the ram and sacrificed it as a burnt offering instead of his son. So Abraham called that place The LORD Will Provide. And to this day it is said, "On the mountain of the LORD it will be provided."



The angel of the LORD called to Abraham from heaven a second time and said, "I swear by myself, declares the LORD, that because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son, I will surely bless you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession of the cities of their enemies, and through your offspring all nations on earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed me."

Answer 18

Ibrahim

Answer 19

yes it was Abraham and no, that isn´t what inspired God to send His son to die for us.

Answer 20

Abraham...some of these stuff are stories man

Answer 21

god was playing a cruel joke on abraham...

god is supposed to be a loving god but yet he would put a man through this just to see if that man was devoted enough to do it.

i don't call that loving ...i call that a sick psycho...

Answer 22

cute story, huh? my kids always ask for this one just before bedtime.