Abraham, the Friend of God It is God's covenant with Abraham, freely initiated by God, that constitutes Israel as a people who gratefully recall the past, who live obediently in the present, and who face the future in the assurance of God's promises. Anderson,Bernhard W - 《Interpretation...
Moses(Musa)131 timesMūsā Kalīm Allāh; Moses He who spoke to God Muhammad5 timesMuhammad (PBUH) is mentioned four times in the Quran. Also known Ahmad is mentioned one time;Mohammad in the Bible: Jesus’ Prophecy Abraham(Ibrahim)63 timesIbrāhīm Khalīl Allāh - Abraham Friend of God ...
Who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings: he went from Jerusalem with necessary refreshings to meet Abraham, the friend of God, the father of believers, a prince and a priest himself, and of whose posterity was to come the Messiah, now returning from his victory over Che...
His closest friend appears to be Jasper, a fellow Retirement Castle resident. He spends a good deal of his time writing letters of complaint on his old-fashioned typewriter. He once wrote to the President, complaining there were too many states, and requesting they get rid of three of ...
20 Now Abraham moved on from there into the region of the Negev and lived between Kadesh and Shur. For a while he stayed in Gerar, 2 and there Abraham said of his wife Sarah, “She is my sister.” Then Abimelek king of Gerar sent for Sarah and took her....
3dly, We have Abraham's frame as the fruit of his faith; he was glad. He was glad of the Lord's favour and kindness to himself, and of the mercy, grace, and love which he saw God had in store for all the nations of the earth, in the promised seed. But the words will be fu...
and return to their separate lives. Isaac lives on in the faith of his father, but there is an emptiness now, since the old man is gone. Abraham, the "friend of God" (2 Chronicles 20:7; Isaiah 41:8; James 2:23), is now at rest in the presence of his Friend -- Yahweh himself...
to him.[2] Abraham has heard God's voice many times during his lifetime. He knows the voice. It is not the voice of an enemy, but a friend. But the message must have brought agony to Abraham's heart. We'll discuss the word "tested" (Hebrewnāsā) in verse 1 in a few minutes...
22You see that faith was active along with his works, and faith was completed by the works.23Thus the scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,” and he was called “the friend of God.”...
actions made his faith complete.23And so it happened just as the Scriptures say: “Abraham believed God, and God counted him as righteous because of his faith.” He was even called the friend of God.24So you see, we are shown to be right with God by what we do, not by faith ...