It is argued that Abraham ’ s obedience to God ’ s command in fact necessitates praise and blessing, which he only receives in the second angelic speech.

In Book of Genesis, Rebekah receives a gold nose ring and two bracelets from the servant sent by Abraham ().

Alwi Shihab ( left ) receives a commemorative photo from Rear Admiral Doug Crowder aboard USS Abraham Lincoln, February 2005

The second is The Love-matic Grampa, a sitcom featuring Moe Szyslak who receives dating advice from Abraham Simpson, whose ghost is possessing a love testing machine.

He receives advice from the ghost of Abraham Simpson, who was crushed by a store shelf containing cans of figs that toppled on him and subsequently " while travelling up toward Heaven ... got lost along the way " and now possesses Moe's love tester machine.

Its inscription, written by a Syrian monk almost a thousand years earlier and in both Chinese characters and Persian script, begins with the words, " Let us praise the Lord that the faith has been popular in China "; it told of the arrival of a missionary, A-lo-pen ( Abraham ), in AD 625.

The Long Trail traverses almost all of the Green Mountains ' major summits, including ( from south to north ) Glastenbury Mountain, Stratton Mountain, Killington Peak, Mount Abraham, Mount Ellen, Camel's Hump, Mount Mansfield, and Jay Peak.

The Bahá ' í writings state that it was Ishmael, and not Isaac, who was the son that Abraham almost sacrificed.

This in turn allowed almost 5, 000 British troops to climb the cliffs and mass on the Plains of Abraham.

As the townspeople try to move the town's statue of Jubilation T. Cornpone, a plaque bearing a declaration by Abraham Lincoln is revealed: because Cornpone's military blunders almost single-handedly allowed the North to win the Civil War, Dogpatch is designated a national shrine.

After Grow was again re-elected, the recently-elected President Abraham Lincoln called the 37th Congress into session on July 4 ; in a chamber down by almost 60 from the 237 present in the previous session, Grow was nominated by Thaddeus Stevens to be the Speaker of the House, winning the job with little fanfare over the only other nominee, Francis Preston Blair, Jr ..

This deal is mentioned three more times ( with almost the same words ), upon the deaths of Abraham, Jacob, and Joseph.

In this period ( in which can be included the promise made to Abraham, centuries earlier, and its recall by Nehemiah half a millennium later ), the Hittites are mentioned about a dozen times as part of an almost fixed formula that lists the " seven nations greater and mightier than Hebrews " whose lands will be eventually conquered.

A 1909 biographer wrote that Beatty " is the sole survivor of the electoral college of Ohio, which cast its vote for Abraham Lincoln in 1860, and as far as known, the only surviving elector who cast a vote for President Lincoln when he was chosen to his first term almost a half century ago.

The form appears again almost immediately in verse 22, used by Abraham in an oath to the King of Sodom.

Through the registration of the patent on cephalosporin, he was able to generate a regular income, which he devoted almost entirely to the establishment of two charitable trusts for the support of biomedical research, the Edward Penley Abraham Research Fund and the E P A Cephalosporin Fund.

After the American Civil War and Reconstruction, the Democratic Party gained an almost unbreakable dominance in the Southern United States, and the Republicans, associated with Abraham Lincoln and the Union cause, were correspondingly unelectable.

Returning to Utah, Cannon married Elizabeth Hoagland ( daughter of Abraham Hoagland ) and was almost immediately called to assist Apostle Parley P. Pratt in publishing a newspaper in California.

These lists are identical between Abraham and David ( except for one ), but they differ almost completely between David and Joseph.

They opposed both Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction strategy, and almost led to Johnson's removal from the Presidency.

The story of Abraham almost sacrificing Ishmael is an example of legend.

Bowron was quoted on the radio on Abraham Lincoln's birthday in support of these camps: " There isn't a shadow of a doubt but that Lincoln, the mild-mannered man whose memory we regard with almost saint-like reverence, would make short work of rounding up the Japanese and putting them where they could do no harm.

When Abraham is an old man, he makes his head servant, who while not named specifically, is almost certainly Eliezer of Damascus, promise to find his son Isaac a wife from his people to marry.

:: The Christ was Jesus ' spiritual selfhood ; therefore Christ existed prior to Jesus, who said, " Before Abraham was, I am.

He interpreted Israel as the Christian church, the spiritual seed of Abraham.

As a result, Jacob becomes the spiritual leader of the family after Isaac's death and the heir of the promises of Abraham ().

Full Jewish names include a patronym: converts take the patronym " ben / bat Avraham Avinu " ( son / daughter of Our Father Abraham ) as converts are held to be spiritual descendants of Abraham, the forebear of Jews.

God granted Abraham wisdom in his childhood and Abraham remained in a high spiritual position till the day of his death.

Although some commentators feel that this passage referred to a physical miracle, where Abraham was physically shown the entire kingdom of Heaven, others have felt that it refers to the spiritual understanding of Abraham ; these latter scholars maintain that the Chaldeans were skilled in the observance of the stars, but Abraham, who lived amongst them, saw beyond the physical world and into a higher spiritual realm.

The spiritual and ideological founder of the Religious Zionist Movement was Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, who urged young religious Jews to settle in Israel and called upon the secular Labour Zionists to pay more attention to Judaism.

He jailed for long terms a variety of spiritual marriage reformers including Paschal Beverly Randolph who had been a personal friend of Abraham Lincoln.

A student of philosophical and spiritual traditions of both East and West, Assagioli sought to address human growth as it proceeded beyond the norm of the well-functioning ego ; he wished also to support the blossoming of human potential into what Abraham Maslow later termed self-actualization, and further still, into the spiritual or transpersonal dimensions of human experience as well.

By common consent, the following branches are considered to be transpersonal psychological schools: various depth psychology approaches including Analytical psychology, based on Carl Jung, and the Archetypal psychology of James Hillman ; the spiritual psychology of Robert Sardello ; psychosynthesis founded by Roberto Assagioli ; Zen Transactional Psychotherapy created by Robert M. Anthony ; and the theories of Otto Rank, Abraham Maslow, Stanislav Grof, Timothy Leary, Ken Wilber, Michael Washburn and Charles Tart.

Franklin sang the closing spiritual " Never Grow Old " and Stevie Wonder performed " Abraham, Martin and John and now King Curtis ".

In Richard Zimler's international bestseller, The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon, the narrator and his spiritual mentor ( his uncle ) make it clear that they follow the practices of Abraham Abulafia.

He took the name of Yisrael bar Avraham Gordon (" Israel son of Abraham " Gordon — since Judaism regards a convert as the spiritual " son " of the Biblical Abraham ) and underwent brit milah (" circumcision ").

# Exclusive: It is only for Abraham and his ( spiritual ) descendants. Genesis 17: 7

This spiritual Israel is based on the faith of the patriarch Abraham ( before he was circumcised ) who was ministered by the Melchizedek priesthood, which is understood to be a type for the Christian faith of believing Jesus to be Christ and Lord in the order of Melchizedek.

Abraham Lincoln ( February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865 ) was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865.

Lincoln's paternal grandfather and namesake, Abraham, had moved his family from Virginia to Jefferson County, Kentucky, where he was ambushed and killed in an Indian raid in 1786, with his children, including Lincoln's father Thomas, looking on.

Abraham Lincoln suffered from " melancholy ", a condition which now is referred to as clinical depression.

* Abraham Lincoln: A Resource Guide from the Library of Congress

Descended from Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob

His highly influenced style which incorporated Italianate lighting from Jan Both, broken brush technique and atonality from Jan van Goyen, and his ever-developing style from his father Jacob Gerritsz Cuyp was studied acutely by his most prominent follower, Abraham van Calraet.

Abraham Joshua Heschel was descended from preeminent European rabbis on both sides of the family.

The medieval exegete Abraham ibn Ezra believed that Job was translated from another language and it is therefore unclear " like all translated books " ( Ibn Ezra Job 2: 11 ).

Penicillinase was the first β-lactamase to be identified: It was first isolated by Abraham and Chain in 1940 from Gram-negative E. coli even before penicillin entered clinical use, but penicillinase production quickly spread to bacteria that previously did not produce it or produced it only rarely.

The traditional Jewish understanding of the promise of salvation was that being rooted in " the seed of Abraham " referred to physical lineage from Abraham.

Divine revelation for the direction of the entire church comes from God to the President of the Church, who is viewed by Latter-day Saints as a prophet in the same sense as Noah, Abraham, Moses, Peter, and other biblical leaders.

* The Book of Abraham: a translation from papyri acquired by Smith in 1835, dealing with Abraham's journeys in Egypt.

: Year One: Old Testament ( also includes some coverage of related topics in the Book of Moses and Book of Abraham from the Pearl of Great Price )

In the Hebrew Bible, the prophet Abraham is stated to have originally been from " Ur of the Chaldees " ( Ur Kasdim ); if this city is to be identified with the Sumerian Ur, it would be within the original Chaldean homeland south of the Euphrates, although Chaldeans were not extant in Mesopotamia at the time of Abraham.

In the 9th or 10th century, Yehuda Ibn Quraysh compared the phonology and morphology of Hebrew, Aramaic, and Arabic, but attributed this resemblance to the Biblical story of Babel, with Abraham, Isaac and Joseph retaining Adam's language, with other languages at various removes becoming more altered from the original Hebrew.

Salmon P. Chase, class of 1826, was an American politician: Senator from Ohio, Governor of Ohio, Secretary of the Treasury under Abraham Lincoln, and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.

A New York Times transcript from an Abraham Lincoln speech written in 1862 contains "( applause and laughter "; there is some debate as to whether it is a typo, a legitimate punctuation construct, or an emoticon.

Abraham Kuyper notes some " disagreeable aspects " to her character — that she should not have agreed to take Vashti's place, that she refrained from saving her nation until her own life was threatened, and that she carries out bloodthirsty vengeance.

* A 1999 TV movie from the Bible Collection that follows the biblical account very closely, Esther, starred Louise Lombard in the title role and F. Murray Abraham as Mordecai.

It would appear, from Paul's response, that they cited the example of Abraham, who was circumcised as a mark of receiving the covenant blessings (), see also Abrahamic religion.

Followers of Hutton were known as Plutonists because they believed that some rocks were formed by vulcanism, which is the deposition of lava from volcanoes, as opposed to the Neptunists, led by Abraham Werner, who believed that all rocks had settled out of a large ocean whose level gradually dropped over time.