If that's your definition of active participation, then it is. If that's your definition of passive participation, then it is.
I never asked you to answer whether I would call it active or passive. I asked for you to characterize it as such. Therefore, according to your own definition and understanding of the terms, would YOU characterize Abraham as an active or passive participant in the covenant?
Based upon what you have written, I assume that you would consider Abraham to have been an active participant. Is that correct?
Slade wrote:
God was the One who passed through the parts while Avraham was divinely paralyzed.
Paralyzed? Do you get that from the text somewhere?
A deep sleep came upon Abraham so that his flesh became inactive. The text tells us, however, that Abraham's spirit became very active while his body was sleeping. So if one looks at the Torah carnally, one might view Abraham as inactive, but if one looks at it spiritually, one might perceive that Abraham became more active at this point.
Surely I am not the only person on this list who has experienced this kind of interaction with God, am I? When God causes a sleep to come upon us and gives us a revelation, which of us would call this being paralyzed? It is one of the most spiritually alive experiences a person can have, in my opinion.
Peace be with you.
David Miller.
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