{"id":2069,"date":"2024-07-06T11:34:22","date_gmt":"2024-07-06T03:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thehopemessage.com\/?p=2069"},"modified":"2024-07-06T11:37:24","modified_gmt":"2024-07-06T03:37:24","slug":"bible-reading-genesis-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thehopemessage.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/06\/bible-reading-genesis-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Bible Reading &#8211; Genesis 16"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Gen 16 started with story of Sara&#8217;s struggle and right positioned after the story of covenant in Gen 15, where there is the legendary verse Gen 15:6 and the terrifying account of covenant btwn God and Abraham<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sara blamed God. Remind us of Eve? She proposed a solution which is happily taken by Abraham (my friend said, which cat will refuse salted fish? (Indonesian idiom)).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This <a><\/a>chapter deals with delicate reality of faith, our understanding, etc &#8211; in one word. Mystery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Did Abraham misunderstand?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Was Abraham&#8217;s faith waiver?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One interesting fact is that God put effort to fix Abraham&#8217;s mistake and paid the damage control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another one: God loves Hagar and Ishmael.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Later on, Paul used this story to argue the story of righteouesness by grace through faith, contrasting with law, self effort, and self-righteousness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In both context, the story echoes the same, still God loves Hagar and Ishmael.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gen 16 started with story of Sara&#8217;s struggle and right positioned after the story of covenant in Gen 15, where there is the legendary verse Gen 15:6 and the terrifying account of covenant btwn God and Abraham Sara blamed God. Remind us of Eve? She proposed a solution which is happily taken by Abraham (my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-plan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehopemessage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehopemessage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehopemessage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehopemessage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehopemessage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2069"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thehopemessage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2071,"href":"https:\/\/thehopemessage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2069\/revisions\/2071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehopemessage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehopemessage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehopemessage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}