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purchase dennis prager's rational bibles go to dennis prager dot com there's another element here

that i just like to throw in for a minute.

And that's the issue of faith.

God had spoken to Abraham, right?

God had told him to move out to begin with.

And God had told him already that through you, all the families of the earth will be blessed.

So then why didn't he simply rely on God?

Why didn't he just say, hey, nothing's going to happen to me?

No, are you, Sarah?

Oh, it's all right.

We've got it made. God's on our side.

He promised me such and such. He's appeared to me. That's an interesting question, and I think there's an answer to it, and there's an important answer,

and this I haven't seen in the commentaries. This is an answer that I come to, but with deep conviction.

And that is you can't rely on God if you can help yourself. You can't.

Oh no, that is a basic religious principle.

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