Faith101:
No one is perfect except God. We agree. Only God is free of need of water and food and sleep.
Was Abraham righteous or not? Do you believe he committed adultery or not?
yes Abraham was righteous of course…yes i believe he committed adultery cuz he had sex outside marriage ; he did not do it to defy God though, but his weakness and fear of not having children, thou God promised him, dominated . It was Sarah who asked him to sleep with Hagar, not God.
“Do not be afraid Abram I am your shield, your reward shall be very great” (v. 1). Abraham’s response in verse 2 is interesting: “Lord God, what will you give me, for I continue childless.” Obviously, Abraham was beginning to get a little impatient with God’s timetable for the promise. God was willing to reaffirm the promise, but Abraham still saw no sign that anything was happening to make it a reality. Abraham’s very human frustration was clearly evident. How could he be the father of a great nation when he still had no children and Sarah was still barren?
Abraham still believed but was starting to get a little impatient with God. His only male heir was a servant, Eliezer of Damascus: “Look, you have given me no offspring so a slave born in my house is my heir!” He was not so gently pointing out to God that if he didn’t do something about the promise the only descendants Abraham would have would be through legal customs and not his own offspring. And yet God steadfastly affirmed the promise, this time giving Abraham more specifics on the outworking of the promise. The word of the Lord came to him, in verse 4: “This man shall not be your heir; no one but your very own issue shall be your heir.” For the first time God specified that it will be Abraham’s own physical descendant that will be the inheritor of the promise. And again God reaffirmed the larger promise to Abraham (v. 5): "Then he brought him outside and said, ‘Look now toward heaven, your descendants will be like the stars of the sky.’
The story continues in chapter 16. After the beautiful passage where God entered into covenant with Abraham and again affirmed his call upon his life, the narrator intrudes with a stark reminder of the reality of life: “Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, bore him no children.” Nothing really had changed in Abraham’s life. There was still no future here, even after all the great things that God had said. Now at this point Abraham was convinced that the promise was real, and he now knew that he would have a child who would be heir of the promise. But he was still not convinced that Sarah would be a part of the promise.
What unfolds in the chapter is the well known incident of Hagar that again marks Abraham’s failure to trust God
Finally, Abraham had a child and the promise could begin unfolding! But as we have already come to expect now in the narrative, Abraham had created a problem by attempting to make the promise happen on his own terms. Tension emerged as Sarah became jealous of Hagar, and Hagar was forced to flee with the child Ishmael. God took care of Hagar and the child. But as soon as Hagar left the future was again at risk. Even though Abraham had a child, it seemed obvious that this was not the way to the promise. And so once again the failure of Abraham to trust God with the promise introduced something less than blessing into the world, and unfolded in pain and conflict.
for the whole article about God’s promise to Abraham:
cresourcei.org/abraham.html
