I think 1 of them is when God tested him that he had to sacrifice his son
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2007-02-22 12:12:53 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
When his name was still Abram and God told him to get up and leave his fathers house and didn't tell Abram where to go, he just got up and left like God told him too. (Gen. 12) and yes of course when he God had tested him with sacrificing his son.
2007-02-22 12:22:01 · answer #1 · answered by Jason M 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As Abraham was about to enter Egypt, he began to fear for his life. His fear revolved around Sarah, his wife. He was afraid that she would catch the eye of the powerful in Egypt, and they would eliminate him in order to take Sarah
Abraham entered the land that God had promised him, than he had to leave that very land because it is not livable. We do not yet know the story, but this is the first of many times that faithfulness to God will place Abraham and his clan at risk. From God’s side, one of the governing themes that emerges in this story is the question of whether Abraham will hold fast to the promise and continue to follow God even in the midst of seeming dead ends like this one. Or will Abraham abandon the promise and seek to make his own way in the world? .
2007-02-22 20:40:45 · answer #2 · answered by Trian 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well he had to have faith to believe he would get a son in the first place(he didnt and took another women and had a baby with her instead) he had to have faith that God would give him all that land(all the way from the nile in Egypt to the the Euphrates in Asia) these promises were both probably really hard to believe as he didnt own any of the land he was promised at the time and he and his wife were really really old.
2007-02-22 20:18:45 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Certainly when he interceded for sodom and gomorrah (Genesis 18), also when he had to send Ismael and Hagar away.
But the main one is really just when he believed God that God would give him a son and that his seed would be as numerous as the stars. Genesis 15:6. This verse is referred to in Romans 4 and Galatians 3.
God bless
2007-02-22 20:21:23 · answer #4 · answered by happy pilgrim 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Let's say a bully held a gun to your head and told you to do something. Would it be "exercising your faith" to do what he told you to do?
I don't think that God telling Abraham to kill his son was anything to emulate. Even if he told Abraham later that it was only a "test", can you imagine how you'd feel about your dad if he came within inches of slicing your neck?
2007-02-22 20:17:05 · answer #5 · answered by nondescript 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How about when he pimped his wife. Not once, but TWICE?
2007-02-22 20:16:21 · answer #6 · answered by Haiku Hanna 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋