Romans922
Puritan Board Professor
I am doing a bible study on Gen. 22 and came to the verse 2 of this passage. Here God commands Abraham, "Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you."
If my understanding is correct, a burnt offering is a covering of sin and/or makes atonement for sin. So then I asked myself, is God asking Abraham to make a burnt offering for his (Abraham's) sin by using Isaac?
So that is my question.
I asked a leader in my church and he said we shouldn't necessarily read the Levitical law back into this. But then last night I came across the story of Noah.
It says in Genesis 8:20-22, "20Then Noah built an altar to the LORD and took some of every clean animal and some of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar. 21And when the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, the LORD said in his heart, "I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the intention of man's heart is evil from his youth. Neither will I ever again strike down every living creature as I have done. 22While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.""
It seems that Noah made a burnt offering for sins and God accepted that offering and it made atonement for sins.
So What do you guys think, did God command Abraham to make a burnt offering to make atonement for his sins or am I just reading too much into what is going on?
If my understanding is correct, a burnt offering is a covering of sin and/or makes atonement for sin. So then I asked myself, is God asking Abraham to make a burnt offering for his (Abraham's) sin by using Isaac?
So that is my question.
I asked a leader in my church and he said we shouldn't necessarily read the Levitical law back into this. But then last night I came across the story of Noah.
It says in Genesis 8:20-22, "20Then Noah built an altar to the LORD and took some of every clean animal and some of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar. 21And when the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, the LORD said in his heart, "I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the intention of man's heart is evil from his youth. Neither will I ever again strike down every living creature as I have done. 22While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.""
It seems that Noah made a burnt offering for sins and God accepted that offering and it made atonement for sins.
So What do you guys think, did God command Abraham to make a burnt offering to make atonement for his sins or am I just reading too much into what is going on?