By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises offered up his only begotten son, of whom it was said, In Isaac your seed shall be called, concluding that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead, from which he also received him in a figurative sense.
Encouraging Words...
One of my quests as a new convert to Eastern Orthodoxy is to understand and embrace the eastern way of thinking. Thinking like the people in Christ's time, even Christ Himself, thought and viewed life as well as their God. Thinking like we did before the age of enlightenment and logical reasoning. Why is this important? Because the Church was founded with this mindset. Jesus, Paul, Peter, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, and all of the early church fathers operated and taught from this mindset.
As I begin to acquire this mindset myself the teachings and readings in the scriptures leap off of the pages in a whole new and vibrant way. We, the Eastern Orthodox, believe that the Old Testament exists to typify (foreshadow, point to, etc.) Christ and chapter 11 of Hebrews shows this by how the writer points out all of the faith heros of the Old Testament did things that typified the King that would be coming some day. The writer of Hebrews was looking back and documenting how the text of their day was pointing forward to Jesus, His life, and His works. Praise God that He can give us new eyes to see when we ask for them.
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