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Christians have long deemed Abraham the “Father of Faith,” and here we consider why. It was through Abraham that God promised to bring about a great nation, offspring who would impact the whole world through the ages to come. Abraham’s became a story of learning to trust in that promise and in the Lord who had given it, most notably through the near-sacrifice of Isaac, the firstborn son of his wife, Sarah. It is through Abraham’s narrative that we meet Melchizedek, a priest of God whose identity would become central to the Judeo-Christian story.
While the word "myth" has come to mean "untrue account," we mean something quite different. Throughout the long ages of human life and culture, myth has been a way of expressing deep truths. And so, here, "mythic narrative" means "meaningful account." Indeed, it is an account that might be entirely true... or mostly false... or somewhere in between. We know where we stand, but that's for each listener to discover.
www.primematters.com
A text version of this project is under production by ActsXXIX. See www.primematters.com/text.
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Christians have long deemed Abraham the “Father of Faith,” and here we consider why. It was through Abraham that God promised to bring about a great nation, offspring who would impact the whole world through the ages to come. Abraham’s became a story of learning to trust in that promise and in the Lord who had given it, most notably through the near-sacrifice of Isaac, the firstborn son of his wife, Sarah. It is through Abraham’s narrative that we meet Melchizedek, a priest of God whose identity would become central to the Judeo-Christian story.
While the word "myth" has come to mean "untrue account," we mean something quite different. Throughout the long ages of human life and culture, myth has been a way of expressing deep truths. And so, here, "mythic narrative" means "meaningful account." Indeed, it is an account that might be entirely true... or mostly false... or somewhere in between. We know where we stand, but that's for each listener to discover.
www.primematters.com
A text version of this project is under production by ActsXXIX. See www.primematters.com/text.

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