[Coach]

teejay,

How does a child born to someone by his wife become illegitimate? Polygamy is not forbidden even though it seems this is what you are insinuating. The Bible clearly says that one should not discriminate among the children even if the mother of that child is not loved. This means that Isaac can not be named as "the only child" when Ishmael is also Abraham's son and older than Isaac. Read carefully...

"If a man have two wives, one beloved, and another hated, and they have born him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son be hers that was hated:

"Then it shall be, when he maketh his sons to inherit that which he hath, that he may not make the son of the beloved firstborn before the son of the hated, which is indeed the firstborn:

"But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated for the firstborn, by giving him a double portion of all that he hath: for he is the beginning of his strength; the right of the firstborn is his." -DEITRONOMY 21:15-17

I would like it if you looked at these verses and understood what they meant because they contradict what you hold to be Christian belief.



The Bible says taht if one marries a second wife that he should take care of her...

"If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish." - EXODUS 21:10

David had several wives and concubines...

"And David took him more concubines and wives out of Jerusalem, after he was come from Hebron: and there were yet sons and daughters born to David." - 2 SAMUEL 5:13

This shows that there is no talk of "illegitimate according to God" because the Bible contradicts this. I can even quote several verses from the NT that shows how pious Christians practised polygamy if you wish.







>>2. Which of the sons of Abraham (Ishmael or Isaac) was to be
>>offered as sacrifice according to the Christian faith?
>
>Of course Isaac….. “And he said, Take now thy son, thine only
>son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of
>Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of
>the mountains which I will tell thee of….”


So what about the verses that say that Isaac was not even born when the covenant was made with Abraham and the males in his household were circumcised? Doesn't it put all the talk about "your only son Isaac" in doubt? Think rationally with all the evidence in front of you mate.