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That's what the baby killing neighbors believed. They sacrificed babies to become deified, to become messengers to the spiritual realm. It was done at times of distress, to ask the gods for help. It was also done to establish cult sites, and sometimes for the founding of cities. The sacrifice victim became the god of that site.
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@Huntress @toxoplasmosis @Halcyon01 @ThatMushroom @Dagnar @Godcast @KekistaniWanderer @MelGibsonafter4Beers @RangoDingbot @SuperLutheran @SuperSnekFriend @Witch_Hunter_Siegfired @givenup @samjayganges @wingedhussar I don’t doubt Abraham was a man of “reformed” Faith, in the sense that he no longer believed identically to how he did as a younger man. He exhibited repentance, in other words.
And I don’t doubt other tribes of ancient people, knowing of Abraham, may have glorified him, even going so far as to say he was “a god”. But obviously I don’t believe that they were *correct*. He wasn’t *really* a “god”.
There were Greeks in the Book of Acts who wrongly concluded Sts. Paul and Barnabas were “gods” until they set the record straight.
Abraham wasn’t around to set the record straight, though, amongst later men that glorified him.
The *correct* understanding of a glorified man, is as a Saint. Their lives have become so Sanctified, they clearly reflect Divine Grace - so God is glorified in them. I argue *this* was more the case with Abraham.
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Just as we understand Jesus' sacrifice means we no longer sacrifice animals, you can understand Abraham's story as a reform from baby killing. We also understand Jesus as divine, so it's no big deal to understand Abraham as originated as the god of a reformed cult.
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Isaac's name meant laughter. The sacrificed babies had a grimace when they were burned, as the flesh burned from their face.
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Ok, so do we have some kind of record that this was how these things were understood before "christian zionists" got a stranglehold on things? Because if not this just sounds like a cobbled-together "just so" story
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@Huntress @toxoplasmosis @Halcyon01 @ThatMushroom @Dagnar @KekistaniWanderer @KingOfWhiteAmerica @MelGibsonafter4Beers @RangoDingbot @SuperLutheran @SuperSnekFriend @Witch_Hunter_Siegfired @givenup @samjayganges @wingedhussar This is Jordan Maxwell-tier cognate conspiracy nonsense.
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I don't know about Jordan Maxwell, it's the result of my own study.
Calling me a conspiracy theorist just reflects your lack of knowledge of the topic. I don't expect you to believe me on first hearing of it, it is different from what you've been taught. But, you grew up in an America that was dominated by Christian Fundamentalist Zionists, so there's probably a lot of things you've got wrong. There hasn't been good leadership in understanding the Bible in light of all the archaeology that's gone on over the last 100+ years, which recently has been under the control of Zionists in the most pertinent territories.
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