Binding of Isaac
93Jephthah
22 Nov 2021
16:38¶ 73
“God told Abraham to offer up his only begotten son, to offer up Isaac as an ascension offering, a whole burnt offering, and Abraham…”
17:49¶ 81
“So as far as the writer of Hebrews is concerned, Isaac was a whole burnt offering even though he walked away from it alive…”
17:28¶ 76
“By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac.”
72The Just Shall Live By Faith
20 Jun 2021
38:37¶ 140
“We’ve talked about this in connection with Soren Kierkegaard many episodes back. Abraham had two things. He had a commandment that amounted to “Go…”
39:04¶ 141
“That meant, as far as Abraham could see, that he was going to have to plunge a dagger into his child’s heart. That part…”
39:49¶ 145
“He gave up his son. He gave up Israel, as it were. Are you willing to give up Israel? Are you willing to give…”
24Two Models for Manhood
14 Jun 2020
5:51¶ 16
“For us, we look at the faith of Abraham in giving up his son, and I think we easily forget that Isaac was a…”
6:05¶ 17
“I was going to say, we aren’t told that Isaac had to be subdued by force. It very well could be that he was,…”
6:33¶ 18
“I think Isaac could do the math. “Okay, we’re going up the mountain to make a sacrifice. We’ve got the wood, we’ve got the…”
23The Sacrifice of Isaac
7 Jun 2020
5:44¶ 15
“Kierkegaard takes his textual point of departure, as you said earlier, to be the story of the sacrifice of Isaac. The faith of Abraham…”
6:26¶ 19
“The words “burnt offering” is an ascension offering, but traditionally ascension offerings were killed and burned in total, and that’s no doubt exactly how…”
8:20¶ 29
“Obviously, Abraham took it to mean that God wanted Abraham to kill Isaac. Kierkegaard looked at this and said, “Well, that’s just absolutely incredible…”