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Was Abraham a Christian?
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Last: 1 yr ago by Realitybites
From what I remember from the Old Testament, Abraham was born almost 2,000 years before Christ was born. I would have to say NO. Perhaps some of our resident Bible scholars can clarify.Fre3dombear said:
I've been studying and pondering this of late
"Stand with anyone when he is right; Stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong." - Abraham Lincoln
RD2WINAGNBEAR86 said:From what I remember from the Old Testament, Abraham was born almost 2,000 years before Christ was born. I would have to say NO. Perhaps some of our resident Bible scholars can clarify.Fre3dombear said:
I've been studying and pondering this of late
Well duh. But you have to think just a little deeper
Fre3dombear said:
I've been studying and pondering this of late
Yes
All the Patriarchs worshiped the living God
The living God is Christ. Or should we say the Trinity
Christ and the Holy Spirit were there in the desert when Abraham spoke to God
Anyway, seems pretty clear that Abraham looked forward to the Promised one and was aware in his life that God would send him.
Next in the list, Rahad-the gentile prostitute.
She was not in the wilderness with the Jews or the Trinity.
She was not in the wilderness with the Jews or the Trinity.
No. Abraham Lincoln was NOT a Christian.
He was also a homosexual.
He was also a homosexual.
"So often times it happens that we live our lives in chains And we never even know we have the key"
Abraham was a Sumerian who lived a couple of thousand years before Christ established the church, so not a Christian. While there was some understanding of the Trinity before Christ, it was a dim circumstantial understanding at best.
Abraham lived under the Old Testament Covenant that God had with Israel. Christ brought a new covenant to all people.
Realitybites said:
Abraham was a Sumerian who lived a couple of thousand years before Christ established the church, so not a Christian. While there was some understanding of the Trinity before Christ, it was a dim circumstantial understanding at best.
I don't think the Trinity was ever mentioned in the Bible. It was created at the Council of Nicea convened by Emperor Constantine in the early third century.
Stranger said:
[I don't think the Trinity was ever mentioned in the Bible. It was created at the Council of Nicea convened by Emperor Constantine in the early third century.
You need to do a great deal more reading about church history. What constituted the bible wasn't fully agreed upon until 382. But that is a whole other rabbit trail which I won't turn down here.
Genesis tells us where Abraham came from:
"Terah took his son Abram and his grandson Lot, son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram's wife, and they went out together from Ur of the Chaldeans to go into the land of Canaan; but when they came to Haran, they settled there. The days of Terah were two hundred and five years, and Terah died in Haran."
In 1927, Leonard Woolley excavated the site and identified it as a Sumerian archaeological site where the Chaldeans were to settle around the 9th century BC. This bit of scripture also gives information to the careful reader about when the scrolls of Genesis that survived were written and the congruence of the flood story in Sumerian texts with that of Genesis.
It is a true miracle how God has preserved this history of our origins over thousands of years, thousands of miles, dozens of different languages, and dozens of different empires for us to read and know today.