3.
Make him a great nation
Give him numerous descendants
Make him a great name and a blessing to others
4. Land: God promised to give Abraham a
vast amount of land, the boundaries of
which are promised to make Abraham a
great nation
Kingdom: God promised to make
Abraham a great nation
Blessing: God promised that, in
Abraham’s seed, all nations of the earth
will be blessed
5. Abraham is a man of faith
He believes and obeys even if, to him,
promises seems unattainable
6. God wants to save the people of the
world
He gives people an opportunity to gain
salvation
Rite of circumcision
Rite of initiation: Baptism (Christianity;
Trinitarian Formula)
7. God call and blesses Abraham and he
moves west into Canaan
Abraham risks the promise of a son by
taking Hagar to bear Ishmael
Abraham shows his blessing by
interceding for Sodom and Gomorrah
God gives the blessing of a sin, Isaac,
and sends Ishmael away
Abraham sacrifice Isaac in Obedience
to God
9.
To sacrifice his only son, Isaac
Silence of Abraham
Obedience (less
compliant)
a) Promised son/child
b) Descendants
c) Sense of generativity (desire to be
remembered)
11. Angel
• Symbolic for God’s intervention
Abraham
• Courageous, determined, confidence
Reward
• Fulfillment of promise
12. God calls certain individuals life the
patriarchs to offer his saving plan for all
God’s salvation is for free
Our response to God’s salvation is faith
God called Abraham to bring about
salvation not only to his descendants,
but for many
Abraham is blessed to be called our
father in faith