Free Choice and Barren mothers in the old testament

The Old Testament is full of stories dealing with issues of man’s relationship with the Supreme Creator of the Universe. It is a hard concept to try to understand a world so much unlike our own, because of the existence of a much more “down to Earth” God. This is a world in which God talks to people, gives orders directly, and takes on human like characteristics. In these books, God judges on an almost immediate basis; he punishes people right after their sins and rewards those who appease him with little delay, showing a direct correlation of cause and effect. Still, reading the Bible from an objective point of view, understanding the reasoning behind God’s actions is still an extremely hard task to undertake. God appears inconsistent by our standards, so sometimes we can only touch on the surface of the reasoning behind some of his actions using verses from the rest of the Bible as possible explanations for this seemingly strange behavior.

One of the harder concepts to grasp is Gods actions regarding the Matriarchs, the mothers who, in turn, will spawn the entire Jewish nation. God makes it so the Matriarchs, meaning Sarah, Rebecca, Leah, and Rachel, all seem to start out unable

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