This is very strange, since Sarah was also Abraham's half-sister. If that is the case, what does that make Isaac? Is he superior to Ishmael because he (Isaac) was born to a woman in her old age, and Ishmael was not? Neither woman was superior to the other.
Besides, what woman in her right mind would permit her husband to have an adulterous relationship just to preserve his seed? How is that showing respect? How could Abraham just lie down with a woman he wasn't married to? Was he that desperate? How could he just dishonor her by not marrying her?
Neither Ishmael nor Isaac had any control over whom their mothers would be. Only Almighty God had control over that.
Sarah could have been the mother of all of Abraham's children during her childbearing years, but she wasn't. If she was childless during her childbearing years, it was by Divine Decree. If Isaac was meant to be the first-born, that would have already happened.
2007-04-28
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