(March 28, 2018 at 9:07 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: There is another viewpoint. It's one where neither Abraham sought to kill his son literally neither did God order him to.
What I wanted to show in all this, is don't get tunneled vision when approaching a verse.
I have already stated that Abraham is a myth. All we can argue now is whether his mythical actions were virtuous or evil. I say evil. The Sufis may try to coat it with sugar glaze but it is a myth which betrays the ethical worldview of any living person who perpetuates that myth.
God thinks it's fun to confuse primates. Larsen's God!