Hi Friend, Beautifully written reflection on Abraham's thoughts.

Hi Friend!

Beautifully written reflection on Abraham and his reactions to God’s command to him. You make a lot of sense.

Jesus' Second Coming Messages from Spirit give us a different understanding of this difficult story

Jesus: Abraham’s True Faith and Righteousness September 25, 1957, Washington, D.C., Received by Dr. Samuels

"...this is one of the many passages in the Scriptures which does not present accurately that which transpired at the time of Abraham, and the supposed testing of his faith with Isaac, for the account given in the Old Testament was written in its final form some two thousand years after the event it is supposed to describe, and the ideals which pervaded at this time, namely, the return from Babylonia and deep faith in God, were very much different from the religious thoughts of the times of Abraham, when human child sacrifice and belief in fertility gods were prevalent.

And when Abraham had faith in the Father, his faith had been void and in vain had he not accompanied his faith with works and deported out of Ur of the Chaldees. And when Abraham had faith, he had faith that God did not wish him to sacrifice his son Isaac, and thus he carried out that faith in works by sacrificing an animal instead. For Abraham rebelled against the customs of the times to sacrifice children, for had he placed Isaac on the altar, it would have been not out of obedience to God, but in obedience to the sacrificial rites and ceremonies of his day.

For God, through his messengers, had revealed unto Abraham not to bring his son Isaac to sacrifice, and such was Abraham’s faith in God that he obeyed with works, and broke with the religious customs of the time.

And this was Abraham’s real faith and obedience to God, for God never tested anyone in such a manner, for God is not brutal, as He is so often depicted in the Scriptures, but He is a kind and loving Father who, through Abraham, was able to bring about in that area of the world the cessation in time to come of that horrible practice.

And so I wish to show what Abraham’s faith really was, and how it was misunderstood by the writers of the Old Testament, who inserted the supernatural appearance of the ram and the cruel testing of his faith as part of the story they could not otherwise understand; and I wish to show that Abraham’s faith was not sterile, but led to action and doings contrary to what was customary in those days, and it was in the accomplishment of these works that Abraham did what was righteous. For as my brother James said in his Epistle, Abraham’s faith reached supreme expression through his works, for there is no faith without the practice of that faith, and it was in that way that when Abraham believed in God that it was accounted to him for righteousness and he was called the 'Friend of God.' (James 2:23)

Thank you, my friend!

Love, peace and blessings to you and yours for the coming year, dear one, no matter what the world brings. And may God's Love reign in souls—and on earth—as It does in His Kingdom. 🌿🙏

The Second Coming Messages from Spirit for All People (1914—???), soultruth.ca, new-birth.net

“Thus far I have spoken to you only in parables [about the soul-rebirth to divine men, women, angels]... but a time is coming when I WILL TELL YOU PLAINLY ABOUT THE FATHER.” Jesus (John 16:25)