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Audio Interchange File Format  |  1996-02-20  |  1.9 MB  |  1 channel  |  22,050 sample rate  |  45 seconds
Transcription: Abraham is renowned for his faith, but that faith didn't come easily. Although God had shown Abraham his overall plan for the future in spectacular fashion, the actual working out of that plan included many bumps and pitfalls. God had promised Abraham many descendants, which led to a crisis of faith. Nothing gave Abraham more delight than thoughts of his children at play, but was that promise a cruel joke God had dangled before him? At five, Abraham gave up on his wife and slept with a female servant. At least he would have one child he could call his own. Then at 99, when God reconfirmed the ...