Schroedinger
@sinabhfuil @kinyutaka @korreckj328 @Nazani @CultureDesk @bookstodon Abraham was prepared to sacrifice his own son. Lot offered his daughters.
Jephthah - the first thing that comes out of my house to greet me I will offer to the Lord: It was his daughter.
Schroedinger
@kinyutaka @dsmoore @sinabhfuil @korreckj328 @Nazani @CultureDesk @bookstodon I believe that the Bible story is one of progressive revelation. And that Abraham didn't see it as wrong to sacrifice his son (it was not that uncommon at the time). But he needed to learn that this was not, in fact, what was needed.
The story is one of understanding that this practice is vile and unacceptable. But told in terms that show it was not understood as that.
kinyutaka
@dsmoore @SteveClough @sinabhfuil @korreckj328 @Nazani @CultureDesk @bookstodon
Both. Both of them.
Derek
@kinyutaka @SteveClough @sinabhfuil @korreckj328 @Nazani @CultureDesk @bookstodon yeah but who was for evil? Abraham or the guy-in-the-sky who manipulated him to sacrifice his own son only to be like “just kidding!”
kinyutaka
@SteveClough @sinabhfuil @korreckj328 @Nazani @CultureDesk @bookstodon
Just the fact that Abraham was willing to kill Isaac is evil as hell.
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