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I am preparing a sermon on Gen 21:8-20 and having a hard time with what to say about Hagar. I know Ishmael is reprobate.
What say y'all about Hagar?
What say y'all about Hagar?
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But what does the Scripture say? "Cast out the slave woman and her son, for the son of the slave woman shall not inherit with the son of the free woman.""
Gen 16:13 So she called the name of the LORD who spoke to her, "You are a God of seeing," for she said, "Truly here I have seen him who looks after me."
Gen 16:14 Therefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi; it lies between Kadesh and Bered.
I don't think that the fact that Paul uses her allegorically (is that the right word?) to make a theological point in Galatians can really be used as a determinant of her relationship with God.
I don't think that the fact that Paul uses her allegorically (is that the right word?) to make a theological point in Galatians can really be used as a determinant of her relationship with God.
I don't know, when we only have a handful of passages that talk about her I think we have to take them all, including the Galatians passage, into consideration.
I am inclined to think she was a convert.
I don't think the Galatians passage speaks to her personal spiritual state.
I don't think that the fact that Paul uses her allegorically (is that the right word?) to make a theological point in Galatians can really be used as a determinant of her relationship with God.
Then God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water, and gave the lad a drink.