The order of scripture is simple. Terah, took Abram, Lot and Sarai to Haran.
There he died. No more mention of him.
Abram was then called by God and left Haran to go to Canaan.
The ages are filled in when these events occured.
Terah 205 at death. He became a father at 75, had three sons, Abram, Nahor, Haran
You will notice there is no mention of daughters, only the sons.
Now either there were triplets, or this is a summary of when he became a father, and
these three sons where the most significant.
130 = 205 - 75
Now the only reason for this discrepancy was Stephens sermon to the sanhedren.
Paul, a pharisee did not correct this "error" or the apostles, rather they accepted
it written in Acts, and took it into scripture.
I would therefore suggest this was the interpretation at the time of Jesus.
What I find interesting is how some have problems over such interpretation details
which can be explained, but never definitively, because we have no more information.
The Lord will always provide reasons to disbelieve Him, because it relies on do you believe
His Spirit and ways of working, and leave it in His hands.
PeterJens wrote.........The order of scripture is simple. Terah, took Abram, Lot and Sarai to Haran.
There he died. No more mention of him.
Abram was then called by God and left Haran to go to Canaan.
The ages are filled in when these events occurred.
Terah 205 at death. He became a father at 75, had three sons, Abram, Nahor, Haran.
S-word...........According to my bible Terah was 70 when he began his family, not 75, as you seem to have gleaned from whatever bible you study, Abraham was 75 when he left his father, who was then 145, in Haran with his younger brother Nahor, and Terah died there 60 years later at the age of 205.
Peter Jen wrote...........You will notice there is no mention of daughters, only the sons. Now either there were triplets, or this is a summary of when he became a father, and these three sons where the most significant.
S-word...........I will accept that this was a summary of when Terah first became a father, if you want to believe that his three sons were triplets? Fair enough, but Abraham was the first born of Terah's sons, who became a father at the age of 70.
PeterJen wrote.........130 = 205 - 75
S-word...........According to my bible Terah was 70 when he began his family, not 75, as you seem to have gleaned from whatever bible you study, Abraham was 75 when he left his father in Haran with his younger brother Nahor, and Terah, who was then 145, died there 60 years later at the age of 205.
PeterJens wrote............Now the only reason for this discrepancy was Stephens sermon to the sanhedren. Paul, a pharisee did not correct this "error" or the apostles,
S-word............No, they took him outside and stoned him to death for his heresy. To speak against the truths of the Lord, was heresy, and Stephen. a newly converted Christian contradicted all the truth as revealed in the Hebrew bible.
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Peter Jan.........rather they accepted it written in Acts, and took it into scripture.
S-word.......To prove to all that one can be full of the Holy Spirit and be a valuable member of society, and yet be totally ignorant to the truths as revealed in the Holy Scriptures.
Peter Jan wrote........... I would therefore suggest this was the interpretation at the time of Jesus.
S-word..........And you are entitled to your erroneous belief.
Peter Jen wrote.........What I find interesting is how some have problems over such interpretation details which can be explained, but never definitively, because we have no more information. The Lord will always provide reasons to disbelieve Him, because it relies on do you believe His Spirit and ways of working, and leave it in His hands.
S-word........
Stephen, was a newly converted Christian and would have been taught, that after Jesus had been given divine glory by our God, He had ascended to his Father and our Father, to his God and our God, where he, who is now incontestably divine and sits on the right hand of our God, to where he invites his brothers, who like himself, are able to win the victory over the world, to sit with him in the throne of Godhead to all creation, visible and invisible, See Rev 3: 21. But did he actually see anything? After reading everything that Stephen said, I can’t put faith he anything that he had to say.
Stephen, a Greek speaking Jew, who had been dragged before the Jewish authorities by Saul, in defense of his faith before being stoned to death,
So then, do you believe as stated by Stephen in acts 7: 4, that it was after Terah HAD DIED that his son Abraham obeyed God’s command and went to live in the land of Canaan. But the record in Genesis makes it plain that after Terah had turned 70 not 75 or 80, he became the father of Abraham, Nahor and Haran, and that Abraham was 75 when he travelled to Canaan, leaving his father with his younger brother “Nahor,” and that his father died there in Haran 60 years later at the age of 205?
And do you believe Stephen who said in Acts 7: 15-17, that Abraham bought the grave site for Sarah in the land of Shechem from Hamor, whereas Genesis 23: shows that Abraham bought the grave site from Ephron the Hittite at Machpeleh east of Mamre, which is way to the south of Shechem?
It is also said by Stephen in the same verses, that Jacob and his sons were buried at Shechem, when in fact, it was only the remains of Joseph which was buried there, see Joshua 24: 32. Jacob and his other sons were buried at Mamre and concerning the burial of Jacob, it is written in genesis 50: 13, “They carried the body of Jacob to Canaan and buried it in the cave at Machpelah east of Mamre in the field which Abraham had bought from Ephron the Hittite.” Again do you believe that Stephen’s words are the truth as revealed in God’s word?
Stephen said in Acts 7: 14; that the number of Jacobs Family that went into Egypt was 75 people in all, whereas Genesis 46: 27; reveals that the number of Jacobs family who went down to Egypt was 70.
Who speaks the truth? The word of God, or Stephen the newly converted Christian?