(February 14, 2019 at 12:42 am)Bucky Ball Wrote:(February 13, 2019 at 10:45 am)Drich Wrote: just remember Abraham assholishness was a product of the 'morality' of his society. If he were perfect he would have trusted God but he wasn't and these character flaws show us that we do not have to be perfect in order to be greatly used by God to accomplish world changing things.
Remember without god Abraham would have been murdered for his wife and she taken as a sex slave. Yes god saved them and awarded him by having the kings of the regions pay a high bounty for doing nothing, but at the same time do you really think the bounty would have been so high if they would not have plotted and killed abraham?
It's a myth, created by humans for a specific purpose.
It would have come out how they wanted it to, with or without the gods.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhiABi6vw3A
if this were true then why not build the perfect protagonist?
or one that follow the typical story arch?
why have the protagonist keep failing the same trial over and over and over again? All it does is undermine the character of the person who is supposed to be the moral standard.. This reeks of real life people and real life failures.
If a story's protagonist fails to learn a great moral lesson over and over again yet holds himself up to be the hero, he become little more than a hypocrite.. So why is Abraham not the father of hypocrisy? if what you say is true?
