whom  did abraham wanted to sacrifice to God.Isaac or Ishmael?
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Abraham(Ibrahim) was asked to sacrifice his son, Ishmael(Ismail)..\nit's written in the Quran.\n\nlet me explain. Abraham has 2 wives. i forgot their names. Isaac is his son with his first wife. Ishmael is his son too but with his second wife. they are both his sons\n\nAl Qur'an is the latest 'book' the god sent us. the Holy Bible was written thousands of years before that. there are new things that the god wants to tell us. so i trust Al-Qur'an, the last testament
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Yes.  Abraham had 2 sons, Isaac and Ishmael.  Isaac fathered Jacob and Esau.  Jews come from Jacob.  and Ishmael fathered the Arab nation.  Both Jews and Arabs are considered Semitic nations because they come from the same son of Noah (Shem).  This common ancenstry of Abraham is some of the source of struggle over land in Israel.  Because according to the Old Testament G-d gave the land of Israel to Abraham.  There is a verse which says it will then be given to Isaac, but the Arabs feel since they are children of Abraham they should get the land. And so the war goes on and on and on and on...
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Genesis Chapter 17 10 This is My covenant which you shall keep, between Me and you and your descendants after you: Every male child among you shall be circumcised; 11 and you shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskins, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between Me and you. 12 He who is eight days old among you shall be circumcised, every male child in your generations, he who is born in your house or bought with money from any foreigner who is not your descendant. 13 He who is born in your house and he who is bought with your money must be circumcised, and My covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant. 14 And the uncircumcised male child, who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that person shall be cut off from his people; he has broken My covenant."\n15 Then God said to Abraham, "As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall be her name. 16 And I will bless her and also give you a son by her; then I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of peoples shall be from her."\n17 Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed, and said in his heart, "Shall a child be born to a man who is one hundred years old? And shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear a child?" 18 And Abraham said to God, "Oh, that Ishmael might live before You!"\n19 Then God said: "No, Sarah your wife shall bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac; I will establish My covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his descendants after him. 20 And as for Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly. He shall beget twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation. 21 But My covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear to you at this set time next year." 22 Then He finished talking with him, and God went up from Abraham.\n23 So Abraham took Ishmael his son, all who were born in his house and all who were bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham's house, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskins that very same day, as God had said to him. 24 Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. 25 And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. 26 That very same day Abraham was circumcised, and his son Ishmael; 27 and all the men of his house, born in the house or bought with money from a foreigner, were circumcised with him.
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God\n\nBut as humans Adam. Abraham, Muhammad Peace be upon them all
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I think I get what you're asking.  In the Old Testament, under the law of Moses, the Jewish people would have to make sacrifices (such as animals or grain, depending on the ceremony) to "make up" for their sins.  God Himself commanded that system of sacrifice only as a temporary, imperfect system.  An important verse to consider is Psalm 40:6, where it says "Sacrifice and offering You did not desire."  That verse and the context surrounding it shows us that what God really wanted was not a tally of how many rams or bulls got slaughtered, but the right heart of the people.\n\nThe OT system of sacrifice was not just abolished but fulfilled by Christ's death and resurrection.  The old way taught that people needed a sacrifice to have their sins forgiven by God.  Through His death, Christ provided the one and only sacrifice that will ever be needed again.\n\nWe could never sacrifice enough ourselves to get right with God, whether that be through any kind of "good works" or "penance" as some teach.  The Bible actually says we CANNOT rely on our own works, how much we can sacrifice, but instead we are to rely on God's mercy and grace.  Any teaching that isn't centered God's grace and Christ's victory is indeed "ready to vanish" and should be thrown out as unbiblical.
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That is why he needs blood sacrifices! The real Jews and Christians know this, that is why they wage wars to send him burnt offerings.
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The first person was Adam. God wanted Adam to have a partner and created Eve from one of his ribs. God created him in his image and placed them in the Garden of Eden\n\nGenesis 1:26-27\n 26 Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground."\n\n 27 So God created man in his own image, \n       in the image of God he created him; \n       male and female he created them. \n\n\nGenesis 2:15 and 18\n 15 The LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it. \n\n 18 The LORD God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him." \n\n\nGenesis 20- 24\nBut for Adam  no suitable helper was found. 21 So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man's ribs and closed up the place with flesh. 22 Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man. \n\n 23 The man said, \n       "This is now bone of my bones \n       and flesh of my flesh; \n       she shall be called 'woman,' \n       for she was taken out of man." \n\n 24 For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.
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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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Please read the account of Abraham pleading with Jehovah before the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah at GENESIS 18:20-33 and then ask yourself the above questions.
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1) He was talking about non-Jews as indicated by using the word "gods" therefore if anything, they wouldn't be sacrificing it to Him.\n2) God sacrificed His Son for all of mankind, all humans could do with a sacrifice would be to appeal to God. With a sacrifice, God prefers animals like lambs, not humans.\n3) God gives children as a gift to us, I suppose you could say that sacrificing a child would be the religious equivalent of repackaging a gift and giving it back to the same person (God). And as far as I know, God doesn't like receiving the gifts that He gave you. :P\n\nMatthew 18:3\nAnd said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.\n\nMatthew 11:25\nAt that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes.\n\nNeedless to say, God likes children and babies. :) The sacrifice of His Son was a demonstration of His love for us.
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I will give this a shot, so to speak.\nI am going to give this, but if you want all the scripture references, then it will be very lengthy.  But I can put them here.  \nAbraham had two children Ishmael, through a slave woman, and Isaac through his wife.  The Christian linage follows the seed of Isaac.  Ishmael (father of all arabs) was thrown out of the family.  Anyway the linage of God and his people Israel follow Isaac, Jacob, 12 tribes of Israel (Jacob, God changed his name)  Anyway that is where it all started.  \nIslam came about with the prophet Muhammad around 1400 when he wrote the Koran.  And it has developed from there.\nThe people of God, the Jews are the source of the Bible and Jesus was born the Messiah and as you know died for our sins.  Jesus said a lot of very definite things about himself that left no room for any other way to get to God.  Muhammad recognises Jesus as a prophet, but says that the Bible is totally wrong, but does not have any writings of Jesus.  This leaves Jesus as a sort of silent Prophet for them.  They concentrate on Muhammad and sort of ignore Jesus and any writings of his.  The teaching of Muhammad and Jesus are directly opposite even as their lives were.  Jesus never married and was finally killed for our sins.  Muhammad had a number of wives and one was a 6 year old girl that he consummated at the age of 9.  Anyway Christianity and Islam are at opposite ends completely.\nThere are copies of the Koran on the net and you can read them, they say some pretty gruesome things.  The Muslim community is trying to white wash the Koran, but unless they decide to re-write it they can not deny what it says.  The peaceful ones ignore the violent passages and quote the non violent passages.  The violent ones quote the violent passages to justify killing everyone.  And the passages are in there.  The Christian is bound by love your enemy and do good to them that hate you.  Directly opposite.  I can give the scriptures but it will be much longer.
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Genesis 21:10 Wherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast out this bondwoman and her son: for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, even with Isaac. \nGenesis 21:11 And the thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight because of his son. \nGenesis 21:12 And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy bondwoman; in all that Sarah hath said unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall thy seed be called. \nGenesis 21:13 And also of the son of the bondwoman will I make a nation, because he is thy seed. \nGenesis 21:14 And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba. \n\n\nGod told Abraham to let him go, and Abraham did, Isaac remained. Promise continued to Isaac, but not to Ishmael.
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wat i heard is that The Bible is written by humans and i dont think any God would want human sacrifices...in other religions for example hinduism...some people sacrifice humans(for a Goddess, Kail matha)...but its really a wonder y should humans sacrifice humans for God...cuz God never asked that!
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This does not mean he sinned, besides non of us can say we are pure.  God told us in the Quran very clearly (I wish I know the verse's no.): never purify yourselves.  It means 'none of you can say I am better than so and so'.  Abraham (pbuh) being a model for all of us, asks for redemption for any mishap he might have committed.  He is showing that even Prophets NEED God's forgiveness.  He is asking this for all followers, it does not mean Ismaiel in particular.  The above answers are mere mockery.\nWe, Muslims, always use this prayer literally, it is so heartwarming.
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Mentally ill people will claim ANYTHING told them to commit an evil act.  If it hadn't been God, it would have been his dog or Bing Crosby's ghost.  Crazy is as crazy does, and organized religion had little to do with it.\n\nThe story of Abraham and Isaac concerns faith and trust.  God asked Abraham to sacrifice his son in the same manner as others made blood sacrifices with animals.  When God realized that Abraham did indeed have strong faith, He intervened and stopped the sacrifice.  Abraham's destiny was to be a great ruler of the Hebrews, God's chosen people.  God needed to see if Abraham had the intestinal fortitude to handle the task.
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Iscariot was the kind of person Judas was. An Iscariot was a radical of the day. They wanted to liberate Israel of Rome.
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I'm not sure that explaining Jesus's blood sacrifice to a Muslim can be done. Their understanding of the Trinity is corrupted with false assumptions and heretical teachings. \n-\nQur'an [4.171] "O followers of the Book! do not exceed the limits in your religion, and do not speak (lies) against Allah, but (speak) the truth; the Messiah, Isa son of Marium is only an apostle of Allah and His Word which He communicated to Marium and a spirit from Him; believe therefore in Allah and His apostles, and say not, Three. Desist, it is better for you; Allah is only one God; far be It from His glory that He should have a son, whatever is in the heavens and whatever is in the earth is His, and Allah is sufficient for a Protector."\n\n- This clearly limits what God can or would do, and then...\n\nQur'an [5:116] And behold! Allah will say: "O 'Isa the son of Maryam! didst thou say unto men, 'Worship me and my mother as gods in derogation of Allah'?" He will say: "Glory to Thee! never could I say what I had no right (to say). Had I said such a thing, Thou wouldst indeed have known it. Thou knowest what is in my heart, though I know not what is in Thine. For Thou knowest in full all that is hidden.\n\n- Here Muslims are told that Mary is a part of the Trinity. \nObviously Mohammad's understanding of classical Christianity has been brought to him by the heretical Gnostics of his day. Muslims are also taught that Jesus was not crucified... \n-\nQur'an [4:157] That they said (in boast), "We killed Al-Masih 'Isa the son of Maryam, the Messenger of Allah"; but they killed him not, nor crucified him, but so it was made to appear to them, and those who differ therein are full of doubts, with no (certain) knowledge, but only conjecture to follow, for of a surety they killed him not. \n[4:158] Nay, Allah raised him up unto Himself; and Allah is Exalted in Power, Wise.\nhttp://quran.al-islam.com/Targama/DispTargam.asp?nType=1&nSeg=0&l=eng&nSora=4&nAya=156&t=eng\n-\nSome are taught that Jesus was actually replaced with Judas to make it APPEAR as if Jesus was the one who was killed!\nhttp://www.sacred-texts.com/isl/gbar/gbar217.htm\n-\nIt's truly a shame when someone had to modify an existing faith to conform to their own beliefs, and then insist it is the undeniable, unmistakable, and unchangeable truth.\n\nMay God protect us from the lies and deception of Satan and the anti-Christs...\nPeace for us ALL!