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Genesis: A Bible Commentary in the Wesleyan Tradition is unavailable, but you can change that!

Genesis, of course is the first book of the Bible. It answers fundamental questions about human existence: How did the world begin? How did it come to be populated? Where did people come from? What is the purpose of creation? Genesis describes how humanity got its beginning. But that’s not all. The book also describes how sin entered the world, the flood, and the lives of the patriarchs. More...

sacrifices to atone for the sins of guilty people. And God was asking Abraham to do something that He himself had planned to do for eternity—sacrifice His own son. Indeed, the whole episode was a picture prophecy of what was to come. Isaac was dead in Abraham’s mind for three days, and there was a substitution of a ram so that his son would not have to die. For Isaac of course, there was a ram; for all people since Jesus’ death, He was and is the sacrifice. That Abraham received more specific directions
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