Who had more faith in God, Sarah or Hagar?
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Wow, it's a toss up for me. Hagar was treated very badly, yet God took care of her. Sarah laughed when the promise was given. Not much faith there. Sarah did not trust the promise of God so she gave Hagar to Abraham to bear a son. Man, I would say Hagar, just because Sarah was so faithless. But I would have to make a final decisions on Sarah based on Hebrews 11:11\nBy faith Sarah herself also received strength to conceive seed, and she bore a child when she was past the age, because she judged Him faithful who had promised.
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Clearly Abram was operating out of fear rather than trusting God for his protection because God just promised Abram that He will make him into a great nation. Sarai on the other hand heeded to her husband's request in order that his life would be spared. She loved her husband because she obeyed Abram and pretended to be his sister.
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In the beginning they were one in the same.  Ishmael, Abrahams illegitimate son; was named "the father of a nation".  He was illegitimate because Abraham grew tired of waiting for God's promise and decided to take matters into his own hands; Sarah, Abrahams wife, offered Hagar, her handmaiden, as a surrogate mother to provide an heir. She gave birth to Ishmael.  They all served the same God; YHWH (pronounced Yahweh or closest translation: Jehova).  Now some thirteen years later God fulfilled His promise to Abraham for a son and Sarah at ninety years of age, gave birth to Isaac, which God made "A Father of Many Nations".\n\nSomewhere down through the ages, the muslim faith grew out of this faith of Ishmael.  The Muslim Quran, is written by a prophet called Muhammed, who at the time was not in his right mind; considered to be deranged.  In the Quran most of the Old Testament (Bible) prophets and Kings,etc. are mentioned, and most of it reads like the Christian Bible.  Jesus Himself is even mentioned in it, but not given His due!  However distorted this faith may be to some of us; in the beginning, our God (Christian) was their God.  However, no Muslim will agree to this, but it is so.\n\nThere is only one God, who created all that is... and it wasn't billions of years ago!  It was only thousands.  Carbon dating is flawed, and it is the only way we can tell age to this day.  \n\nIf you take a look at all beliefs, you'll see there is only one which offers it's own sacrifice; Christianity.  Most, if not all, eastern  philosophies, have no God at all, only prophets.  Christianity offers a way to become one with the Father, as Jesus is, as a son; adopted by faith, through His grace.  This faith must be in Jesus; "the only 'begotten' son of God".  The only to the Father is through the Son; Jesus...
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I would have to say Enoch.\n\nGenesis 5:24   And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him. \n\nHebrews 11:5   By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.
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So that Abraham might have a seed, his barren wife, Sarah, offered him her servant girl, Hagar, as a child bearer. By her, Abraham fathered Ishmael, but God did not choose him as the promised Seed. Rather, when Abraham was 100 years old and Sarah was 90, Jehovah enabled them to have a son named Isaac. When Ishmael mocked Isaac, Hagar and her son were sent away, leaving Abraham’s son by the free woman Sarah as Abraham’s undisputed seed. Like Abraham, Isaac also exercised faith and enjoyed God-given freedom.—Genesis 16:1-16; 21:1-21; 25:5-11.\n\nThese events foreshadowed things very significant to lovers of God-given freedom. This was noted in the letter the apostle Paul wrote to the congregations of Galatia about 50 to 52 C.E. By then the governing body had decided that circumcision was not required of Christians. But false teachers had persuaded some of the Galatians that it was a vital feature of Christianity.\n\nPaul told the Galatians: A person is declared righteous through faith in Christ, not by works of the Mosaic Law. (1:1–3:14) The Law did not invalidate the promise linked with the Abrahamic covenant but made transgressions manifest and served as a tutor leading to Christ. (3:15-25) By his death, Jesus released those under Law, enabling them to become sons of God. Hence, returning to an arrangement of observing days, months, seasons, and years would mean going back into slavery. (4:1-20) Paul then wrote:\n\n“Tell me, you who want to be under law, Do you not hear the Law? For example, it is written that Abraham acquired two sons, one [Ishmael] by the servant girl [Hagar] and one [Isaac] by the free woman [Sarah]; but the one by the servant girl was actually born in the manner of flesh, the other by the free woman through a promise. These things stand as a symbolic drama; for these women mean two covenants, the one [the Law covenant] from Mount Sinai [where God inaugurated that covenant with the Israelites], which brings forth children for slavery, and which is Hagar. [The other covenant was the one made with Abraham regarding his Seed.] Now this Hagar means Sinai, a mountain in Arabia, and she corresponds with the Jerusalem today, for she is in slavery with her children [descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob]. But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother.”—Galatians 4:21-26.\n\nIn this symbolic drama, Abraham was a figure of Jehovah. “The free woman,” Sarah, pictured God’s “woman,” or holy universal organization. It produced Christ, the Seed of that symbolic woman and of the Greater Abraham. (Galatians 3:16) To show people the way of release from unclean worship, sin, and Satan, Jesus taught the truth and exposed false religion, but Jerusalem and her children remained in religious bondage because they rejected him. (Matthew 23:37, 38) Jesus’ Jewish followers became free from the Law, which showed up their bondage to imperfection, sin, and death. Free indeed are all humans who accept Jesus as the One brought forth by God’s “woman” to be the Messianic King and the Emancipator ‘proclaiming liberty to the captives’!—Isaiah 61:1, 2; Luke 4:18, 19.
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GOD\nFaith isn't faith until it's all your holding on to
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If we talk about this artist, then what appear in my head is "how can a human being  have a voice like that". If i can say that Sarah really have a gift from God, send it directly to her, cause God know she can make anybody who listen to her voice will love her at once. She's got the voice from heaven. \nI love all of her albums, especially when she sings some classics music. Most i love is Harem. Mixing the techno music with classics harmony and join with voice from heaven.
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I searched on yahoo.com and google.com and came up with no relevant hits for Haggai the Prophet or Steven Sanders.  I have not heard of him, but if you do, let me know!
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My wife.  Before I met her I was pretty much just wandering through life going with the flow.  She helped me mature and start heading in the right direction.\n\nAlso, I have never been real good at mercy and forgiveness.  She has helped me immensely in this regard.  She has also helped me see the hand of God in so many things that I used to just think well that's just the way things happen and the luck of the draw.  \n\nWell there ya go.  It's my wife!
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in my faith on god's promise. whoever believe jesus is the son of gaod who save my soul from punishment. john 3:16
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Da Vinci* \nYes, a daughter named Sarah via Mary Magdalene.
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It Should be her choice. no one is responsible for anyone Else's soul though the Anti Abortionist , are so sure they got a Handel on what God thinks. I think they should give God credit, for being able to talk to others also. He is a Mighty God and need no one to Criticize for him. The spirit comes with the Breath of Air God Breaths in. who gained from the suffering that was done here?
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It has to do with the divine covenant between God and Abraham with Sarah.  Not between Abraham and Hagar.  As Ishmael was Abraham's son, he was not part of the covenant though he did too get blessings.  So to say, "your only son"  Gen. 22: 1,2 was only referring to the son of the covenant between Sarah and Abraham.    God promised that a "great nation" would come from Abraham, through Sarah - who at the time was barren.  God then concluded a formal covenant over animal sacrifices with Abraham, and at the same time, he revealed that Abraham’s offspring would be afflicted for a period of 400 years, even being taken into slavery.—Ge 15:7-21, which happened through his sons.  \n\nIn 1919 B.C.E., when Abraham was 99 years old, as a sign or seal to testify to the special covenant relationship existing between himself and Abraham, God commanded that all the males of Abraham’s household be circumcised. At the same time God changed his name from Abram to Abraham, “because a father of a crowd of nations I will make you.” (Ge 17:5, 9-27; Ro 4:11) Soon after, three materialized angels, whom Abraham received hospitably in the name of Jehovah, (Psalms 83:18)  promised that Sarah herself would conceive and give birth to a son, yes, within the coming year!—Ge 18:1-15.\n\nAnd what an eventful year it proved to be! Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed. Abraham’s nephew and his two daughters barely escaped. A famine drove Abraham and his wife to Gerar, only to have the king of that Philistine city take Sarah for his harem. Jehovah God intervened; Sarah was released; and at the appointed time, 1918 B.C.E., Isaac, the long-promised heir, was born when Abraham was 100 years old and Sarah was 90. (Ge 18:16–21:7) Five years later, when Isaac’s 19-year-old half brother Ishmael poked fun at him, Abraham was compelled to dismiss Ishmael and his mother Hagar. It was then, in 1913 B.C.E., that the 400 years of affliction upon Abraham’s offspring began.—Ge 21:8-21; 15:13; Ga 4:29.\n\nTo back track a bit - A year later Isaac was born; Ishmael was now 14. (Ge 16:16; 21:5) Five years after that, in 1913 B.C.E., on the day of Isaac’s being weaned, Ishmael was caught “poking fun” at his younger half brother. (Ge 21:8, 9) This was no innocent child’s play on the part of Ishmael. Rather, as implied by the next verse in the account, it may have involved a taunting of Isaac over heirship. The apostle Paul says these events were “a symbolic drama” and shows that the mistreatment of Isaac by the half-blooded Egyptian Ishmael was persecution. Hence, this was the beginning of the foretold 400 years of Israel’s affliction that ended with deliverance from Egyptian bondage in 1513 B.C.E.—Ga 4:22-31; Ge 15:13; Ac 7:6.\n\n“Furthermore, Abraham again took a wife,” Keturah, and thereafter fathered six additional sons, so that from Abraham sprang not only the Israelites, Ishmaelites, and Edomites but also Medanites, Midianites, and others. (Ge 25:1, 2; 1Ch 1:28, 32, 34) Thus it was that God's prophetic utterance was fulfilled in Abraham: “A father of a crowd of nations I will make you.” (Ge 17:5) Finally, at the good old age of 175, Abraham died, in 1843 B.C.E., and was buried by his sons Isaac and Ishmael in the cave of Machpelah. (Ge 25:7-10) Prior to his death Abraham gave gifts to the sons of his secondary wives and sent them away, so that Isaac would be the sole heir of “everything he had.”—Ge 25:5, 6.\n\nSorry that this is long, but I hope it helps to answer your question!
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Faith.  Believing even when you do not physically see it in front of you.  \n\nI have seen many miracles.  I do believe in God.  He has told messages to people to record and translate.  The BIBLE, should be valued and loved.  I will someday see God face to face.
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Read in the Bible Genesis chapters 15-17. God promised Abraham that his decendents would be more numerous than the stars in the sky, yet his wife Sarah could not have children. When God told Abraham and Sarah that they would have a child, they laughed and didn't believe God, because they were past child bearing years. Sarah took matters into her own hands and gave her servant, Hagar, to Abraham to have a child by to 'fulfill' the prophecy. Hagar became pregnant and the child, Ishmael, is the one from whom the palestinians/arabs are descendent. Later, just as God said, Sarah became pregnant and bore Isaac. If you read Genesis 16:11-12 it tells how the angel spoke to Hagar when she was pregnant, about Ishmael. Is says "You are now with child and you will have a son. You shall name him Ishmael, for the Lord has heard your misery. He will be a wild donkey of a man; his hand will be against everyone and everyone's hand against him, and he will live in hostility toward all his brothers". Today that hostility is still there between the jewish and palestinian brothers. The hostility against Israel is there because Israel is God's chosen people and many people want that idea and that people destroyed. Even though Israel has rejected her Messiah, they are still those who were chosen by God and any nation that comes against Israel will suffer greatly for it. The land of Israel was given to them by God after they escaped Egypt, and they will fight to the death to keep the land that God has given to them, but the Palestinians believe that the land is theirs by right. This is the reason for most of the fighting today.
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George Harrison.\n\nHe always had such a spiritual aura about him.  Just listening to his work puts me in such a peaceful place.\n\nRIP George.
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Jesus of course...though He was more than a prophet.