Abraham's Temptation: only a matter of Faith, or also of Hope?

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Faith-Complete trust or confidence in someone or something. Hope-a feeling of expectation and desire or a certain thing to happen. A feeling of trust.

God deals with Abraham starting at Genesis 12 when He ask Abraham to go forth from your country and from your relatives to the land which I will show you. (Genesis 12:1). At vs4 Abraham does what God told him.

At Genesis 13:1, "So Abram went up from Egypt to Negev, he and his wife and all that belonged to him, and Lot with him." At Genesis 15:1, After these things the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision saying, Do not fear, Abram, I am a shield to you; Your reward shall be very great. At Genesis 15:18 the Lord made aa covenant with Abram, saying, To your descendants I have given you this land etc.

The Lord God deals further with Abram and his wife Sarah at Genesis 16, Genesis 17, Genesis 18-22 and beyond. Of course Genesis 22 is the sacrifice of Abraham's only son Isaac.

What I'm saying is the fact that both "faith and hope" directed Abraham and his actions. At Hebrews 11 (which is known as the "faith" book) Abraham is the center piece starting at vs8. "By faith Abraham when he was called obeyed by going out to a place which he was to receive for an inheritance; and he went out, NOT KNOWING WHERE HE WAS GOING."

At vs17, "By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac; and he who had received the promises (plural) was offering up his only begotten son; vs18, it was he to whom it was said, In Isaac your descendants shall be called."

Hebrews 11:19, "He/Abraham considered that God is able to raise men even from the dead; from which he also received him back as a type." Going back to Romans 4 in which the Apostle Paul talks about Abraham in detail.

Romans 4:18, "In hope against hope he believed, in order that he might become a father of many nations, according to that which had been spoken, "So shall your descendants be."

Romans 4:19, "And without becoming weak in faith he contemplated his own body; now as good as dead since he was about a hundred years old, and the deadness of Sarah's womb." Vs21, "and being fully assured that what He/God had promised, He was able also to perform."

In short both faith and hope go hand in hand where God held Abraham's hand all through His dealings with him by giving him confidence.

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