One of the great examples of faith is Abraham, also known as the father of our faith. His story and that of his family pretty much covers the entire book of Genesis. And through this tremendous story, ...

Our Protestant brethren say that one is justified by faith once for all and not at all by works. Catholics say that initial justification is “monergistic” (not involving our work to attain it) and by ...

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Abraham, the Sages were convinced, was a greater religious hero than Noah. We hear this in the famous dispute among the Sages about the phrase that Noah was “perfect in his generations,” meaning ...

“It is fundamental to the nature of faith to take God’s word for things; acceptance on the authority of God is the biblical analysis of faith on its intellectual side.” The truth of this statement by ...

Today we hear the Genesis account of God’s test of Abraham. Often when we think of Abraham as the man of great faith, we are remembering his leaving everything behind in order to go to the land God ...

A thought experiment: if they had asked me to edit the Bible (whoever “they” might be—perhaps the Holy Spirit, or the heavenly Council on Divinely Inspired Works) . . . if they had made me the ...