Here's an answer. Avoided? Probably, because you pose the question like
there's an absolute simple answer. There is not.
Avraham was active, in a way. God initiated contact. Avraham responded with
obedience: he continued the journey to Canaan began by his father. God made
some promises and Avraham believed. God said He is cutting a covenant with
Avraham, and Avraham was the one who did the cutting of the animals. God was
the One who passed through the parts while Avraham was divinely paralyzed.
God said to do some stuff and Avraham obeyed. Isaac is born and God tells
His that Isaac is going to enjoy Avraham's covenant because Avraham obeyed
Torah (yes, folks, the word is there in the Hebrew unless you truly believe
King's English thundered from the Mountain).
If that's your definition of active participation, then it is. If that's
your definition of passive participation, then it is.
-- slade
Yes to the above. My "answer (read "guess") was "passaive. Could have been "active." Passive was chosen because the covenant promise in Christ was going to happen no matter what (IMO).
John
