The greatest title and attribute that is reserved only for the God of the Bible is Omnipotent, which means He has unlimited ...

No, promises God. Abraham’s descendants will outnumber the stars of heaven (imagine what that looked like to a man in the middle of a desert without light pollution).

God’s covenant with Abraham is depicted in a medieval illustration from a manuscript from around the 13th century, ... rather, God’s promises to Abraham in that covenant.

It was Abraham and his descendants’ faith in God, that is their trust in God’s promise, that made them right with God. God became Abraham’s heavenly parent, and like a human parent’s love ...

Isaac is the fulfillment of God’s promise, the long-awaited and almost-despaired-of biological heir and heir of the covenant. Now God asks Abraham to sacrifice him. For many people, God’s ...

By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to set out for a place that he was to receive as an inheritance, and he set out, ...

God told Abraham, "Look at the heavens." Paul says: "Our citizenship is in heaven." Paul sees Abraham's land of promise as a foretaste of eternal life in union with God and all creation.

What God promises seems too good to be true. Abraham, we are told, “fell face down and laughed as he said to himself, ‘Can a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Can Sarah give ...

Abraham traded his wife for a slave—twice! Sarah laughed at God’s promise and then mistreated her Egyptian slave. Isaac didn’t do much at all and ended his life having been bamboozled by his ...