RE: 10 Questions Biblical Literalists Cannot Honestly Answer
June 19, 2017 at 4:09 pm
(This post was last modified: June 19, 2017 at 4:13 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(June 19, 2017 at 4:05 pm)alpha male Wrote:(June 19, 2017 at 3:56 pm)Khemikal Wrote: Unsurprising, from a system that maintains that there is goodness in a faith that compels one to filicide.
I haven't been compelled to filicide, and neither was Abraham.
Back to saying batshit things.....? That's the entire crux of the story...... God says, -"go up the mountain and kill your son" Abe says "okay".
You've insisted that his greater faithfulness made him go along with it. Agreed...........a faith that compelled to filicide.....your faith is maybe insufficient to compel you - but then again maybe not, again as you've instead. It still commands this loyalty..specifically.....the whole point of the story. Hell, it doesn't stop there. The compulsion is reenforced and restated in the NT, for christers like yourself. Jesus himself (allegedly) commands greater fealty than that showed to family.
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