Sarai lashed out at Abram, “May the wrong done to me be on you!” (Genesis 16:5). She then turned her anger on Hagar, treating her harshly. What began as a plan to fix things only made everything worse ...

Q: Attending Catholic school as a child, I remember being bothered by the story of Abraham being tested by God. God asked Abraham to sacrifice his only son, Isaac, up to Him. Once God saw that Abraham ...

That’s where Genesis picks up the trail of Abram, wife Sarai and some of their family. Written materials that never made it into the Christian canon give you some fantastic tales about Abram rejecting ...

FORGET, FOR A MOMENT, WHAT GENESIS MIGHT mean. Did any of it actually happen? The scholarly consensus is that no evidence, archeological or otherwise, exists for the first 11 chapters: nothing for the ...

Our Father Abraham had eight sons. The record of these sons and their names are in the Book of Genesis. First he had Ishmael, who was the son of a slave woman--Hagar of Egypt was his mother. She was ...

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