Originally Posted by Tom
Although I believe that Abraham lied. It should be stated that Sarah was Abraham’s half sister. Yet he said this, to deceive out of a lack of faith.
BUT...... Abraham married her and thus regardless of the familial relationship between them, Sarah was in fact Abraham's wife! The key to this whole matter is easily seen in the CONTEXT which totally discredits all those who reject the truth of the matter; Abraham LIED and so did Sarah who was Abraham's covenant-bound wife in order to deceive Abimelech and save his own life. Here is what GOD preserved for our instruction:

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Genesis 20:3 But God came to Abimelech in a dream of the night, and said to him, Behold, thou art but a dead man, because of the woman whom thou hast taken. For she is a man's wife. 4 Now Abimelech had not come near her. And he said, Lord, wilt thou slay even a righteous nation? Said he not himself unto me, She is my sister? And she, even she herself said, He is my brother. In the integrity of my heart and the innocency of my hands have I done this. 5. And God said unto him in the dream, Yea, I know that in the integrity of thy heart thou has done this, and I also withheld thee from sinning against me. Therefore suffered I thee not to touch her. 6. Now therefore restore the man's wife. For he is a prophet, and he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live. And if thou restore her not, know thou that thou shalt surely die, thou, and all that are thine.
It would have been a gross sin for Abimelech to take Sarah since she was Abraham's wife. That she was his half sister doesn't even enter into the matter! All attempts to avoid what God's intent of including this event are futile, erroneous, an affront to the Spirit Who had this written down and those who do this miss the value the truth revealed about God could belong to them otherwise. God's sovereignty, providence and holiness are perspicuously displayed and man's sin, fear and lack of faith though also pitifully displayed are no stumbling block to God's eternal purpose to save a people for Himself in the Lord Jesus Christ.

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