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Or that the same text said Abraham was totally down with child sacrifice until he was stopped last second.
by inlined 5y ago
Or that the same text said Abraham was totally down with child sacrifice until he was stopped last second.
- dane-pgp 5y agoFortunately the Bible later explains that Abraham remembered God had told him "Through Isaac shall your offspring be named." and he therefore correctly reasoned "that God was able even to raise [Isaac] from the dead" (Hebrews 11:18-19). At worst, therefore, Isaac would only have been temporarily dead, which was not a feature observed of Canaanite child sacrifice.
- mbfg 5y agoTemporarily dead perhaps, but either way, emotionally scarred for life, most likely.