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Job appears to be around the time of Abraham (he lived 140 years). What does Job know of righteousness and justice?

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When the Lord was walking with Abraham after eating at his tent, He said that He had chosen him that he may command his children and his household to keep the way of the Lord by doing righteousness and justice. How does Abraham know the way of the Lord?

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Philippians 3 states that we are the true circumcision. What its the effect of this true circumcision? Do we all experience wild donkeys?

Do we have a choice about the true circumcision? Is the old man ever circumcised in heart?

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"Circumcision is obviously only for males. Why did God use this type of sign that could not include females? Did God expect anyone to understand that this points to the One Man?"

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"Whose choice is it to circumcised child; whose choice to break the covenant? Is every Christian circumcised in heart? Explain the history of Christianity."

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"Circumcision was given as the sign of the covenant with Abraham. Why were all members of the household circumcised, not just the ones to whom the covenant was given? What gives identity to a people?"

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"Is it right for God to come back fourteen years after he made a covenant and add provisions to it? Is a covenant a contract?"

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"The Lord appeared to Abraham when Ishmael was thirteen; when the Lord said Sarah would bear a son, Abraham laughed, saying to God, "O that Ishmael might live before Thee!"
How did Abraham conclude that Ishmael did not live before God?

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"Sarah suggested to Abraham to go to Hagar, her maid. Does God suggest to us to attempt something futile? Does God lead us in testing?"

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"The covenant expressly states that the Lord has given a particular geographic land to the seed of Abraham. Christ is the seed of Abraham to whom the promise was given. Do we, being in Christ, have an inheritance in the particular land?"

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"Do all of the physical descendants of Abraham share in the covenant with Abraham today?"

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"Can we initiate a covenant with God? Or do covenants begin with God?"

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"The Lord made a covenant with Abraham through an unfamiliar means to us. What are we supposed to see in the animals cut in half, the error, and the smoking oven and flaming torch?"
"Is this particular means of making a covenant ever repeated by the Lord?"

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"Did Abraham know he had been reckoned righteous by the Lord?"

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"Melchizedek met Abraham as he returned from the defeat of the kings; Hebrews 7:3 says

"For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God, who met Abraham as he was returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him, to whom also Abraham apportioned a tenth part of all the spoils, was fires of all, by the translation of his name, king of righteousness, and then also king of Salem, which id king of peace. With father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made like the Son of God, he abides a priest perpetually."

Is Melchizedek a man or an appearance of Jesus Christ?

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"Abraham had a covenant with Mamre and his brothers. Can we find men like this today?"

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"Neither Abraham nor Lot had been reckoned righteous when they chose different directions: Abraham avoided cities, while Lot sought a place within a city. Why are they different"?

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"Did Lot hinder the growth of Abraham's faith?"

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"God gave a land to the seed of Abraham that is specifically stated to be the possession of the descendants of Canaan, the grandson of Noah. Are we to inherit the possession of those who are cursed?"

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"The Lord spoke to Abraham ten years before he was reckoned righteous; he even appeared to him when he first entered the land. Does the Lord reveal Himself to the unsaved today?"