(February 14, 2019 at 1:03 pm)Drich Wrote:(February 14, 2019 at 12:42 am)Bucky Ball Wrote: 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?
How I see it:
That perfect protagonist (in the eyes of the ancient Israelites) was God. Abraham and all the others are meant to be imperfect human models of righteousness through obedience and adherence to God's laws and commands. God is supposed to be the main hero here, not Abraham and others.
Anyway, it's not like Abraham failed so many times in his accounts that he could no longer be a human model for others morally speaking. He still walked with God, and was considered righteous because Abraham believed God (Genesis 15:6).
