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"People claim God told them to go kill a famous person. What they actually heard was from the devil." Tell that to Abraham.

• mysterydip 9y ago
  God vs devil aside, there was a reason for it in that particular story, and Abraham was given an alternative in the end. That being said, there are numerous other stories where God did tell people to kill (David vs Goliath, the Isrealites vs the various peoples inhabiting the Promosed Land, etc).
  • DigitalJack 9y ago
    The was a reason for that particular story, true. But Abraham couldn't have known it. He believed he was going to kill his son. The person who kills their child today, upon hearing instruction from "something," is in the exact same position, right up until the act is completed. At that point it's really too horrible to even contemplate that it wasn't God.
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