The binding of Isaac

[livingwordunity]

God ordered Isaac to attempt breaking the fifth commandment.

I’ve never heard of that. Where does it say that in the Bible?

 

[livingwordunity]

“This day shall be for you a memorial day, and you shall keep it [the Passover sacrifice] as a feast to the LORD; throughout your generations you shall observe it as an ordinance for ever.” (Exodus 12:14)

This Passover sacrifice has continued unbroken from the time of Moses even to this day in a real and not just symbolic way but only if we look at it in terms of the Eucharistic Passover sacrifice that has been celebrated at each Catholic Mass throughout the past 2,000 year history of the Church.

Hebrews, Chapter 7:1-28

For this Melchiz’edek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God, met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him;

and to him Abraham apportioned a tenth part of everything. He is first, by translation of his name, king of righteousness, and then he is also king of Salem, that is, king of peace.

He is without father or mother or genealogy, and has neither beginning of days nor end of life, but resembling the Son of God he continues a priest for ever.

See how great he is! Abraham the patriarch gave him a tithe of the spoils.

And those descendants of Levi who receive the priestly office have a commandment in the law to take tithes from the people, that is, from their brethren, though these also are descended from Abraham.

But this man who has not their genealogy received tithes from Abraham and blessed him who had the promises.

It is beyond dispute that the inferior is blessed by the superior.

Here tithes are received by mortal men; there, by one of whom it is testified that he lives.

One might even say that Levi himself, who receives tithes, paid tithes through Abraham,

for he was still in the loins of his ancestor when Melchiz’edek met him.

Now if perfection had been attainable through the Levit’ical priesthood (for under it the people received the law), what further need would there have been for another priest to arise after the order of Melchiz’edek, rather than one named after the orde

For when there is a change in the priesthood, there is necessarily a change in the law as well.

For the one of whom these things are spoken belonged to another tribe, from which no one has ever served at the altar.

For it is evident that our Lord was descended from Judah, and in connection with that tribe Moses said nothing about priests.

This becomes even more evident when another priest arises in the likeness of Melchiz’edek,

who has become a priest, not according to a legal requirement concerning bodily descent but by the power of an indestructible life.

For it is witnessed of him, “Thou art a priest for ever, after the order of Melchiz’edek.”

On the one hand, a former commandment is set aside because of its weakness and uselessness

(for the law made nothing perfect); on the other hand, a better hope is introduced, through which we draw near to God.

And it was not without an oath.

Those who formerly became priests took their office without an oath, but this one was addressed with an oath, “The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind, `Thou art a priest for ever.’”

This makes Jesus the surety of a better covenant.

The former priests were many in number, because they were prevented by death from continuing in office;

but he holds his priesthood permanently, because he continues for ever.

Consequently he is able for all time to save those who draw near to God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them.

For it was fitting that we should have such a high priest, holy, blameless, unstained, separated from sinners, exalted above the heavens.

He has no need, like those high priests, to offer sacrifices daily, first for his own sins and then for those of the people; he did this once for all when he offered up himself.

Indeed, the law appoints men in their weakness as high priests, but the word of the oath, which came later than the law, appoints a Son who has been made perfect for ever.

 

[meltzerboy]

“This day shall be for you a memorial day, and you shall keep it [the Passover sacrifice] as a feast to the LORD; throughout your generations you shall observe it as an ordinance for ever.” (Exodus 12:14)

This Passover sacrifice has continued unbroken from the time of Moses even to this day in a real and not just symbolic way but only if we look at it in terms of the Eucharistic Passover sacrifice that has been celebrated at each Catholic Mass throughout the past 2,000 year history of the Church.

Why Jesus should be associated with the Paschal Lamb of Passover remains a mystery for Judaism. This is because the lamb at Passover is NOT an atonement for sin but rather a means of defiance against the Egyptian worship of the lamb as a god, which was thus forbidden by the Jews to sacrifice. The lamb shank-bone during the Passover ceremony reveals that the Jewish people have no fear of any of the Egyptian gods since they place their complete trust only in the G-d of Israel.

 

[DanAl]

I’ve never heard of that. Where does it say that in the Bible?

well, the bible says thou shall not kill and God said "…Sacrifice him (Isaac) there as a burnt offering on a mountain I will show you.”

 

[livingwordunity]

well, the bible says thou shall not kill and God said "…Sacrifice him (Isaac) there as a burnt offering on a mountain I will show you.”

Since God is the author of life and we all owe our life to him he has just as much of a right to take our life as he did to give it to us in the first place. After all, we all will die sooner or later one day when our allotted time that God has given us is up. And on top of that, the order to sacrifice Isaac wasn’t an order that God was going to let happen anyway.

 

[livingwordunity]

Why Jesus should be associated with the Paschal Lamb of Passover remains a mystery for Judaism. This is because the lamb at Passover is NOT an atonement for sin but rather a means of defiance against the Egyptian worship of the lamb as a god, which was thus forbidden by the Jews to sacrifice. The lamb shank-bone during the Passover ceremony reveals that the Jewish people have no fear of any of the Egyptian gods since they place their complete trust only in the G-d of Israel.

In Leviticus 4:35, a lamb is offered for sacrificial atonement of sins. We Catholics don’t see it as either/or. We see it as both. Jesus is the fulfillment of the lamb of the Passover AND the fulfillment of the sacrificial lamb of atonement of Leviticus 4:35. The only way that this has continued in a real way, and not just symbolically, is through the Catholic Church by way of the celebration of the Eucharist. Have you ever meditated on the Jewishness of Jesus, Mary, and the apostles? The very foundation of the Catholic Church is Jewish. That’s why in every Mass there is always a reading from the Old Testament, and there is always a Psalm that is read or sung.

 

[17_Gen_r]

Did not God first obtain Abraham’s belief in God’s promise to multiply Isaac & only then test this belief by commanding him to kill Isaac? Didn’t Abraham know that Isaac wasn’t to remain dead when he said that God was to provide?

 

[17_Gen_r]

And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be. And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness (Genesis 15.5, 6)

And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him. (Genesis 17.19)

And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy bondwoman; in all that Sarah hath said unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall thy seed be called. (Genesis 21.12)

And only then

And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am. 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 (Genesis 22.1, 2)

Fear God.