Fwd: Re: [CS-FSLUG] Genesis 22:10

[David M.]

This is where I was going wrong Frank explains:

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Subject: Re: [CS-FSLUG] Genesis 22:10
Date: Monday 03 January 2005 04:08 pm
From: Frank Bax <fbax at sympatico.ca>
To: "David M." <david at davidcentral.net>

At 03:18 PM 1/3/05, David M. wrote:
>On Monday 03 January 2005 03:00 pm, you wrote:
> > At 02:26 PM 1/3/05, David M. wrote:
> > >In Genesis 22:10, Why was Abraham going to slay Isaac? Did I miss
> > > something?
> >
> >          Genesis 22:2
>
>Genesis 22:2
>  And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and
>get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering
>upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.
>
>This sounds to me that God told him to take him to Moriah. The burnt
> offering I thought was food because:
>
>Genesis 8:20
>And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast,
>and of
>every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
>
>Sounds like Noah was cooking Meat from a cow(beast) or a bird(fowl)
>
>So in Genesis 22:2 it sounds like God was telling Abraham to feed Isaac, not
>cook him. LOL

"offer him there for a burnt offering" isn't the same as "offer him there a
burnt offering" or "take him there for a burnt offering"  ;)

NIV leaves no room for doubt:  "Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering".

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