(June 19, 2017 at 7:51 pm)Khemikal Wrote: Theologically, there was no necessity. Could could have ordered Abraham to wear polyblend clothes or whatever other nutter thing abraham is supposed to have believed in. Anything deemed sufficiently negative would have have been adequate to narrate the faithful obediance of the legendary original jew. Plenty of other objects and acts are used as examples in it's contemporary obedience plays.
That's what makes it even shittier. God could have told abraham to do any number of things in order to instigate the dilemma..that would have rubbed up against his moral code....but he told him to kill his son. This shows either laziness in the case of the author, or convenience to tradition in the case of the audience. The narrative is not nearly as complicated as many other narratives are..despite incredible room for artistic license.
It always comes to the banana hanging from the ceiling of the cage, don't it ??
The granting of a pardon is an imputation of guilt, and the acceptance a confession of it.
