4 ms·
I don't know if this is off topic, but when God asks Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac to prove something to God, that seems to be a mixed message alongside wh
by stevenwoo 8y ago
I don't know if this is off topic, but when God asks Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac to prove something to God, that seems to be a mixed message alongside what you are posting.
- thedailymail 8y agoThe Bible may be many things, but consistent it is not.
- thedevil 8y agoYeah, it uh turns out God was was suffering from bipolar disorder. The official diagnosis was originally mentioned in a chapter in revelations. But his PR consultants thought that he probably better pull those verses out before it got published. But the good news is that Jesus got him to seek some good medical advice, and he's been on some great meds and things have been a bit better since, despite occasional lapses, most recently in the early-to-mid-20th century.
- booleandilemma 8y agoIt ends up being just a test though: God says, a few lines later, “Do not lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him, for now I know that you fear God, seeing you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.”
- stevenwoo 8y agoSorry if I was not clear, I do know the whole story, Abraham had to be committed to the act and visualize what would happen and had to take several steps along the way to fulfil God's command. The fact that it was revealed to be a test is not important in my evaluation of the command, which of course is just my opinion.
- tomrod 8y agoThis is pretty far from what I normally see on HN, but since we are here, I highly recommend Fear and Trembling by Kierkegaard.[0] [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_and_Trembling https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_and_Trembling
- ythn 8y agoIt's almost as if God was helping Abraham understand what He felt like sacrificing His own son (Jesus) to the world.
- Filligree 8y agoUh, that hadn't happened yet. This was over a thousand years earlier.