Genesis 17:10 This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be circumcised.

Exodus 4:25 Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband art thou to me.

Zipporah, Moses’ wife, was a Midianite. Midian was a son of Abraham by his second wife after Sarah died. Circumcision was not a custom passed down to Midian from Abraham as far as I can tell from my readings.

Why did Abraham stop obeying God?

I occasionally have these conversations with my brothers and sisters in Christ about failing to keep covenant with God. The most common response is “Why would they do that?” It is not within their hearts to even understand how such a thing might happen.

There is however something within me that says that if I cannot understand how such a thing can happen, then I too might be in danger. Not that I would, could or desire to stop obeying, but that if there were a warning sign, perhaps I could avoid failure.

Because I do not see anything in scriptures, I am led to believe that the answer lies within the hearts of men. Is there anything in my heart that could lead me to this?

Hebrews 6:4-6 For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.

Why Abraham, why?