And justification can be lost if one rejects God or spurns his grace. In Genesis 12 Abraham was justified by faith and works together. God told him to leave his home and trust him for the future ...

In contemporary academic as well as nonacademic discourse, the biblical patriarch Abraham is frequently invoked as a crucial figure binding the sacred narratives of Jews, Christians, and Muslims.

The truth of this statement by J. I. Packer is nowhere better demonstrated than in the life of Abraham, the great exemplar of faith in both Old and New Testaments. In these days when faith is ...

Story of Abraham and Isaac teaches, "what it means to fear God And it means this: To fear God is to do whatever He asks of us ...

“Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness.” ... And to one who does not work but trusts him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is reckoned as righteousness.

Hebrews 11:8-9 says of Abraham: Hebrews 11:8-9 By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing ...

Syriac hymnists made Sarah a type of Mary, equal to Abraham in faith. Islamic exegetes made Ishmael the nearly sacrificed son. Don’t misunderstand me: There has never been a time when Abraham ...