Abraham and Isaac: A Test of Faith
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- In Genesis 22, God tests Abraham's faith by asking him to sacrifice Isaac, his only son.
To modern readers, this passage feels like a nightmare. Why would God ask Abraham to do that? And why would Abraham be willing to go through with it?
Old Testament scholar Tremper Longman III explores this challenging passage in his online course on the book of Genesis. This video comes from his course.
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It's an amazing moment that teaches us that even good things from God that we have on this world can never be placed on the same level as God. The devil will use even good things to keep us away from our relationship with God. This is a test of faith, and love.
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Beautiful, powerful, sad and joyful event. Isaac as a christ. G-d provided a substitute for Isaac. But when G-d's beloved Son (Lord Jesus) arrived, there was no substitute that G-d could provide. The sacrifice had to be done. Glory in the Highest.
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The "Ram" slain by Abraham is the constellation Aries.
This is utterly brilliant
Ty sir
not brilliant.
If you tried this today, you'd end up in prison.
Ur statement shows ur ignorance. Times have changed. But ur mind is still of a child. And ur words will fade. But the bible will go on.
@@G.TheEnd. Sacrificing a child is kind of psychotic. No, it's EXTREMELY psychotic. Then again, judging their way of thinking by today's standards is a little unfair.
@@G.TheEnd. You deluded fuck witt, luckily it is only a horrible fairy tale like all the other shit the book. Moron.
As they should
@@G.TheEnd. there is no Intelligence in your statement or this whole story whatsoever. All it is, is the story of a scared little sheep who cared more about the sake of his soul than his own child. Tell me, what would have happened if Abraham had defied god? Would he have died? A god that decides to test its followers in cruel manners solely for the sake of doing so, does not sound like a loving god. But instead a very insecure power hungry tyrant. Christianity lacks any critical thinking which is why you are taught blind faith. To be obedient and nothing more.
try to think about it this way. If a person like Abraham was alive today and simply tried to sacrfice his son because he had a dream or heard god tell him to do so, he will very simply be either locked behind bars in jail or locked in a mental assylum. An all knowing god surely can do better than make his chosen prophets act like insane people. Its worth mentioning that there is hundereds of cases in recent times, aka the news of a parent killing their children because they heard god tell them to. This simply one point among other things that dont make any sense to me
I agree with you on this. I absolutely struggle with this narrative in my modern western mind. Perhaps, the trouble is with "If a person like Abraham was alive today..." We try to make this story fit our context, when it is an ancient story from an ancient context. I think our first question is better when we start with: "If I was alive back then,..." There was no such thing as science or the idea of mental illness or civil rights or democracy or individualism, etc. Religion was the worldview and you operated by the gods. In this context, to say, "God said" would have been perfectly normal and standard because what the god said was how the people created their societies. Also, sacrifice was very standard in these religions. It is barbaric to me and to our modern minds, but not to ancients. Child sacrifice was pretty standard as well. What made the Israelites different from other ancient societies was God's clear directive against child sacrifice as written in the Torah. Which, then creates a problem: how can a God against child sacrifice ask for a child sacrifice? This seems to be what Tremper Longman is trying to answer. I'm not satisfied by his answer, to be honest. I still don't think he reconciles the contradiction in God. I am open to the idea that this narrative never really happened but is an oral tradition to emphasize the faith of Abraham, the father of the Israelites. It is a mythicized history, as Peter Enns says, meaning, there are parts of it that hold truth to Israel's history and to God, but it is mainly a way to lift up the figure of Abraham. I believe God can use even imperfect writings of the Bible, if it is so, to steer humans toward Himself. I mean, he uses my stupid, imperfect divine descriptions to draw people to him; I've been witness to it. Greg Boyd has a book I'm reading called, "Inspired Imperfection". It gets at this same thing but with a higher view of the Bible than Enns. I am with you, though. This text is difficult and I struggle with it.
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Wow! What an inspired answer I was looking for. God used your words to answer my question! Praise God 👍🙏🏻
@@chriswilliams5109 Yes, the modern, western mind DOES struggle with religion. That is because it has been exposed to information from OUTSIDE of religion. Religion cannot survive the evidence. It either has to concede or contort itself in an effort to fit the evidence.
What you describe as “faith” on the part of Abraham could just as easily be called “servility.”
The god of Abraham demands that we lose our moral senses and follow orders. That is how despotic totalitarianism functions. I don’t want to live in a totalitarian state now, and I certainly don’t want to spend eternity in one.
And if god told me to murder a child, I would tell him to go fuck himself.
@@chriswilliams5109 Have any of ur views changed over the past 2 years?
It's not hard to understand. God _didn't_ ask for a child sacrifice, and Isaac was never in danger. The aim of this event was to demonstrate that He is completely different from the other gods at the time who thought nothing of child sacrifice.
This story horrified me as a child. Didn't make one bit of difference that he was stopped from killing his son, I thought Abraham should have told God, "No! I won't do it!" World's worst father!
spookym123 it’s beyond your understanding
@@achillix9162 you are a false prophet
Human sacrifices were a habit in the past. God did it to prove that human sacrifices didn’t do anything and they were pointless (idk tho)
And you know this? It certainly is a bizarre request of God to say the least. There are so many horrors in the world today and the question which turns many into atheists, is if there is truly a God then why would this be so. We are mere mortals and we will never know.
@@straightshooter9784 People aren't turned into atheists, they are born atheists, and turned (forced) into believing.
Wouldn’t the killing of his son break the commandment. Thoug shall not kill.
hmmm, uh... I'm pretty sure the Bible says Abraham also had another son. His first son, Ishmael. In this story, it shows that Abraham had faith that God would somehow do him, them right, by attempting to kill his son.....scary....but ended up ok with the lamb showing up and God speaking to him. Sigh of relief. But speaking of Faith, what about when God told Sarah and Abraham that they were going to have a child and they gave up and decided to have Hagar and Abraham make a child instead. Sounds like a lack of faith here. I could be misunderstanding or not knowing the whole story. Just trying to understand here. I believe we are all one, brothers and sisters of the Most High. Peace to all please.
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that is incorrect that was Ismael not Isaac. you are wrong
x KRIOS KHRYSOMALLOS (Crius Chrysomallus) was a fabulous, flying, golden-fleeced ram. It was sent by the cloud-nymphe Nephele to rescue her children Phrixos (Phrixus) and Helle when they were about to be sacrificed to the gods. The ram carried Phrixos all the way to Kolkhis (Colchis) at the far end the Black Sea and then instructed the boy to sacrifice him to the gods and lay his fleece in the grove of Ares. Khrysomallos was afterwards placed amongst the stars as the constellation Aries and his shining fleece became the goal of the quest of Iason (Jason) and the Argonauts
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Saturn is the "father" of many nations (the stars within his immense orbit). Israel is a Phoenican name for Saturn.
Ony your faith and believe in one God and good feeds will save you.
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Why does anything need to be sacrificed though, why do we need to kill stuff to make god happy. The lamb suffered in pain and died, for what purpose. I’m just trying to understand why any of it was needed.,
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Why would you have to test someone if you already know the choice they will make?
God has his own way in showing us examples of faith.. it’s all signs for us to learn from.
DONT THINK ABOUT IT JUST BLINDLY WORSHIP JESUS LIKE THE BIBLE SAYS
Achillix that’s retarded. What did Abraham learn? That God’s a petty cretin? It’s obvious the writer of this story didn’t even consider the fact that apparently “God is all knowing”. Makes sense. People were way less evolved back then and therefore it’s safe to assume they were phenomenally moronic in comparison to the people of today.
@Rooster McScratch He learned that human sacrifices are bad.
And that God didn’t want him to sacrifice his son.
It’s a test of faith.
Abraham and the meaning of Love
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This is a story of a Father going to sacrifice his son to Heaven in the bid to understand his own Divine Child within ( Inner Child) and to Manifest the true Son without who corresponds perfectly to the child within ...
The Angel here signifies the bypassing of the Wall that every human has built from his Karma of birth where he hides himself forever due to guilt and shame and the graceful entry to the inner sanctum of the heart, it reveals the Heaven within us where the Divine Son resides and manifest everything good that we can have without....
Indeed Love is born when Lust( attachments even to children) is Sacrificed on the Altar of Faith of the Inner Child....
To answer some of the questions here: God gave Abraham the opportunity to give Him what He deserves as God, your most precious treasure. The price for Abraham's sins was the blood of his son, as his own life was to end shortly anyways and everything he had lived for was his descendants. God had right to demand blood because blood is life and the price (and natural consequence) for disobedience to the God, the source of life, is life. God had also miraculously allowed for Isaac to be born so his life was especially God's to reclaim.
It was the evil Moloch who told Abraham to sacrifice Isaac it was YHWH the Heavenly Father who intervened and sent Archangel Micha'EL the I Am to stop Abraham from sacrificing Isaac to the evil Moloch at which time Abraham started serving YHWH....
How the hell can you justify this ? This is barbaric and akin to a gang initiation. Your all-powerful God is supposedly so insecure and needs petty assurances of someone's love for him that he has to cruelly and mentally torture Abraham, not to mention poor Isaac ! If God asked me to sacrifice my own son, he'd get the middle finger without even thinking about it. You've now entered puberty, so grow the f*ck up !
@@marwilbow It was the evil Moloch who told Abraham to sacrifice Isaac it was YHWH the Heavenly Father who intervened and sent Archangel Micha'EL the I Am to stop Abraham from sacrificing Isaac to the evil Moloch at which time Abraham started serving YHWH....
At that time, human sacrifices were an habit,
the Creator asked Abraham to sacrifice his son,
and then God STOPPED Abraham, to make it clear
that human sacrifices are horrible...!
True.
@@Dragonage2ftw But Jesus was a human sacrifice
It was the evil Moloch who told Abraham to sacrifice Isaac it was YHWH the Heavenly Father who intervened and sent Archangel Micha'EL the I Am to stop Abraham from sacrificing Isaac to the evil Moloch at which time Abraham started serving YHWH.
@@micheleseinen-boerma2141 true bro... but remember Jesus is God in the flesh & not just a "human" like us.
truth behind is God sacrificed himself
John 10:15-18 As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.
And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.
Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.
No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.
we are the sheep.
stay focused and be blessed brother, one love👏🏾💙
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"The promised child is born" What about Ishmael???????? He is the FIRST born according to the Bible
The promised child was Isaac. He wanted to have the promise child between Sarah and Abraham. Though it does say that God was with Ishamael and “he will make a great nation of him” Genesis 21:18 Abraham wasnt even supposed to have relations with Ishameals mother (Hagar.)
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I don't learn anything in that , I opened it cause I thought that he would mention that God already knew the results what Abraham would do, how come we consider it as a test .....
I’ve always struggled with this story in particular. The most satisfactory answer I got from a priest was that God DID know Abraham would follow through with the request, but needed Abraham to recognize that if he followed Gods word, God would not “lead him astray”. Child sacrifice was a common occurrence for many religions of the time and it could be interpreted as God telling Abraham “no, you don’t need to do that”.
It’s also prophetic, in that eventually God would be the one to sacrifice HIS only son. Many translations say Abraham instead sacrificed a ram, and Jesus is called the “lamb of God “ after all. Still a hard story to read.
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If God came to me and asked me to take my son, my only son, to Mount Moria and sacrifice him on an alter I would argue and say "NO". I would remind God what He promised me. How could I worship a god that asks me to murder? How can I worship a god that treats his covenants as if they are toilet paper? ...to be shit on and discarded?
Interesting point about this story is Yahweh was the usual one who instructed Abraham and Abraham did argue back at times. But this story has _ha Elohim_ instructing Abraham, not Yahweh, to sacrifice Isaac. And Abraham seemingly has no issue with the command. Who is this _ha Elohim?_ Does this deity have another name? Molech? Does Abraham love Ishmael more? Abraham silently obeys an absolutely terrible command that every Christian knows deep down is *Evil.* Yahweh does eventually step into the picture and provides a ram saving Isaac. It appears to be a similar story to that of Job in that an _adversary_ (the satan) was the one who actually did the testing. But the difference between Abraham and Job is: Job was a victim and Abraham actually obeyed an evil order.
Would Jesus ever ask you to sacrifice your child on an alter? How would you ever know it is a test? Would you really obey the command from Jesus to murder your child? The story of Abraham's "faith" is more of a tragedy and should not be modeled.
Ok you ready? Jehovah told Abraham to sacrifice Isaac. he said sacrifice your only son Isaac that you love so much it was a future event just like Jehovah sent Jesus his only son that he loves so much only differences that Jehovah stopped Abraham and Jehovah didn't stop himself by sending his only son Jesus to die for our sins. That's why Jesus came from Abraham
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God wouldn’t have asked him to sacrifice his son because it goes against his own command. Just change the word sacrifice to rape and the story would never have happened because God doesn’t allow rape or child sacrifice… the correct response would be to say my God would not ask me to do that.
It was the evil Moloch who told Abraham to sacrifice Isaac it was YHWH the Heavenly Father who intervened and sent Archangel Micha'EL the I Am to stop Abraham from sacrificing Isaac to the evil Moloch at which time Abraham started serving YHWH.
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So a loving god would put Abraham through something like this and then says jokes no just testing you. What kind of horse chit do people believe about the creator? Abraham probably thought whats next? God can read hearts I have heard. If so then why a test? The fact Abraham was going to murder his son does not speak highly of him or his faith in God. God would already have known the outcome and Abraham would have not needed the test. Is God not powerful enough to redeem us without all the death and misery? Just like hell fire, this too looks like man made contrivances.
If God really exist, he must be really bored
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why we muslims celebrates this historical event and not the christian??
How do you celebrate it?
@@buzrash praising Almighty Allah and prophet Ibrahim (take a good lesson from this event). Sacrifice an animals (cows,camels,goat,sheep) and shared with all, especially the poor people.
@@ez450 I do all of that without having to praise any god
@@buzrash we must worship the one only god which is the Almighty Allah. That’s the main purpose for us being created.
@@ez450 i hope you're speaking for yourself
Let no one mistake this: you do not love your child if you are willing to murder them. That you would think anything differently is a sign of religion’s ability to make you utterly deranged.
That is the true lesson here.
You have not understood.
It was ismael because he was born first.
Every day of my life I’m grateful that I no longer captive of this belief system.
KRIOS KHRYSOMALLOS (Crius Chrysomallus) was a fabulous, flying, golden-fleeced ram. It was sent by the cloud-nymphe Nephele to rescue her children Phrixos (Phrixus) and Helle when they were about to be sacrificed to the gods. The ram carried Phrixos all the way to Kolkhis (Colchis) at the far end the Black Sea and then instructed the boy to sacrifice him to the gods and lay his fleece in the grove of Ares. Khrysomallos was afterwards placed amongst the stars as the constellation Aries and his shining fleece became the goal of the quest of Iason (Jason) and the Argonauts.
Aries the Ram is also the Greek Zeus Ammon and Latin Jupiter Ammon..
God (Aries the Ram) sets headfirst and his horns are entangled in the the thorn bush (winter aka sun falls below the autumn equinox). As the Lamb (Messiah/Son of Jupiter) he rises at the spring equinox and becomes lamb chops for the Jews and Christians.
There is no way that a person who actually believes Yahweh's word can believe the story of Abraham and Isaac is historically accurate and also believe the doctrine of justification by faith alone! (James chapter 2; Hebrews 11) If Abraham believed AND obeyed God (and he did) he was declared righteous by BOTH his faith (trust in God) and his works (acts of obedience). It is a travesty to hear men like Tremper Longman who has a good knowledge of Hebrew sidestep clear biblical truth to uphold and promote the false doctrine of Calvinism.
How is that idea limited to Calvinism?
It was the evil Moloch who told Abraham to sacrifice Isaac it was YHWH the Heavenly Father who intervened and sent Archangel Micha'EL the I Am to stop Abraham from sacrificing Isaac to the evil Moloch at which time Abraham started serving YHWH
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@@joshuabacon4564 I tend to mostly agree with you on this one...
I don't think the author(s) of Genesis viewed YHWH as the _Heavenly Father_ at this point. The early Hebrews most likely believed YHWH was a son of El Elyon. El Elyon was the Father who created a whole pantheon of "sons of god". Deuteronomy 32:8-9 describes Elyon splitting up the nations amongst the sons of God. Israel was YHWH's inheritance/portion. The other sons of Elyon received worship from their inherited people as well. (The characteristic of El Elyon and YHWH merged later into a single God.) The Moabites appear to be Chemosh's inheritance as well. In 2 Kings 3, Chemosh, the Moabites' main god, actually defeated YHWH in battle after the the Moabite king offered his firstborn son as a burnt offering.
Anyways, _ha Elohim_ is the one who "tests" Abraham, not YHWH. _Ha Elohim_ seems to be a _satan_ (adversary) in this story similar to that of Job. It very well could have been _Molech_ but the name of the deity is not given. _Ha Elohim_ could be plural but most like should be translated as a single deity based on the singular verb. Abraham blindly, and without argument, obeys this evil command. He even appears to do it in secret and doesn't even tell anyone he was planning to murder his child on an alter. Did Abraham love his firstborn son Ishmael more? Did he really have no other gods before YHWH? Did YHWH ever accept human firstborn sacrifices? (Exodus 13, Ezekiel 20:25-26, Micah 6:7 ???)
No Christian should model after Abraham's "faith". To have faith like Abraham will end you up in prison, dead, and/or hell.
@@icypirate11 YHWH is the Heavenly Father the Creator He has never been defeated and it was the evil dark prince of this world that killed the firstborn children because YHWH told His Angels to stand down and only protect His People
Today it's Faith alone in Jesus Christ blood atonement and no works required works meaning rejecting sin or doing good deeds no salvation is trusting Jesus Christ finished work for past present and future sins that he was crucified and payed the price with his blood that he was crucified buried and came back to life from the dead the third day ending the old testament law which was rejecting sin and sacrifice animals a lamb for the blood so that certain sin could be forgiven and not die and go to hell
What is the meaning of Abraham’s sacrifice of Isaac after waiting so long for him to be born? Here’s the answer:
1. Abraham by conqueror rights claimed the borders of Israel. The Hittites said he was a great prince among them.
2. The long wait for Isaac to be born indicated the long wait for Jesus to come.
3. God told Abraham to sacrifice Isaac to prove his faith, but also to display an acted out event that would occur in future.
4. Abraham was the actor representing God. Isaac was the actor representing Jesus. God said now I know you would sacrifice your son, your only son, just as God would sacrifice his only son, Jesus. Moses wrote this about 1600 years before it happened.
5. When Isaac got up off the altar alive, it pictured the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
6. This play was acted out 3 days away on top of Mt Moriah. Just as Jesus would be resurrected 3 days after his death on Mt Moriah, the place where Jerusalem was built.
7. God told Abimelech that Abraham was a prophet. He foretold the Crucifixion and Resurrection of Jesus Christ, Genesis 20:7.
The ram caught in the thicket was a young male and wore the crown of thorns, the typology of the Messiah, all the animal sacrifices from that point represented, until the Son of God could come.
wow..amen
I’m fairly new to reading the history of the Bible. Long story short, God revealed himself to me when I was finally willing to seek him out a year ago. However, I’ve been really consumed and trying to learn as much as possible.
I say this because last night when reading this passage in the Bible this was the exact revelation I had without prior knowledge. It stunned me and honestly almost brought me to tears. So today I decided to look and see if my revelation was correct. You’re reply not only confirms my belief but adds more context to it.
Thank you 🙏🏼
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I like the way he says I-Sick
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I have a an honest, genuine question, and I’m not at all trying to be a jerk. I’ve been struggling with faith for the past several years.
My question is: Why would god test one of his children? Why would he do such a thing? It seems like such an atrocity for him to test the faith of any of his followers. Think of the anguish and the torment that Abraham must’ve experienced. That seems like such awful cruelty.
This will explain it like the way you need
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@@RajSingh-sz1nb thank you for responding so nicely. I listened to the video that you provided for me, and it was interesting. But I’m still wondering why God would do such a cruel thing. It seems so cruel for him to tell Abraham to kill his son.
@@acp865 while God told Abraham to see what Abraham would do, but it was God that Stopped Abraham from killing his son.
@@RajSingh-sz1nb But still, I think there is no reason to test Abraham’s faith. What is the reason for testing him?
@@acp865 to teach Abraham the wisdom needed to be the president unless politicians have wisdom they cannot lead the people in a nice way, its easy to destroy lives but hard to build lives
Except it is Abraham testing God not the other way around
As you point out Abraham tells both Isaac and his slaves that he has no intention of harming Issac.
ABRAHAM does not raise a knife but merely un-sleaves it.
Abraham is chap 16 has already haggled with god. We also know that God is not truthful.
If there is a test it is God is trying to see if Abraham will stay truth to himself even if told to do otherwise even by God.
The is a fantastic story and you make it sound a petty thing of obedience. God wants us to choose the right thing because it is right not just because we are told to
@Jack of all Trades well, yes, they are fables. I still find it an interesting tale. I would have thought in the Bible there would be a story of some due telling God to sod off and then God says “ok”. There is message in there. I suspect Christians don’t like it that God expects them to sort out their own problems and not act like children.
It was the evil Moloch who told Abraham to sacrifice Isaac it was YHWH the Heavenly Father who intervened and sent Archangel Micha'EL the I Am to stop Abraham from sacrificing Isaac to the evil Moloch at which time Abraham started serving YHWH......
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@@RajSingh-sz1nb this is back to front Abraham was testing god
IMO, God sounds like a sick sadistic individual. Why would a loving God do this?
Exactly
He wouldn't. It's nonsense.
Have you actually read it?
I think the scriptures have been rewritten and manipulated so many times over the centuries. I think the point of the story is to submit to God and trust him in spite of any doubt as he'll never forsake you and lead you into any evil doing. Faith is everything.
@@vanessas2363 Vanessa - It is non-sense because he doesn't understand. Everyone who claims to teach the bible, doesn't actually know what it means.
@@bible4truth What does it mean?
So your god wanted Abraham to commit murder? Not only murder, but murder of his child. That seems a bit like two insane maniacs to me.
It certainly seems like a better lesson could be made up.
Abraham is definitely not "father of the year" material.
Abraham is Saturn, the god of time, who devours his children. The word "Israel" never meant a nation or people, but is Phoenician/Assyrian for Saturn. The children of Israel/Saturn are constellations of stars. These stars are as numerous as the grains of sand on a seashore.
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For a "God" to ask such a thing from a parent shows you just how evil the Judeo/Christian God is. What a horrible thing to tell someone to do.
We now approach the most remarkable act of Abraham's whole life - the attempted assassination of his only son, Isaac; and this simply by the command of God! The analogy between this and the crucifixion of our Savior is readily seen: but of this in its proper place. Having prepared all things necessary and marched within three days' (three months') journey of the place pointed out by God (Aries setting), he left his two servants (the spring equinox and summer solstice) with his ass, * while he (the Sun) and Isaac (summer) went forward. Poor Isaac wondered where was the sacrifice, but his father assured him all was right - that God (Aries setting) would provide it; and so, he did; for he, God, the Ram, was the sacrifice and Isaac as well. "And Abraham stretched forth his hand and took the knife to slay his son" (Gen. xxii, 10). Wonder what the poor boy thought of his pious daddy, when he saw the glittering blade poised above him! But the Lord called, and Abraham looked, and "behold a Ram caught in a thicket by his horns" (Aries was then setting head-first), which he seized and offered instead of his son. Thus, as the Sun went down below the fall equinox, were the Lord (summer), Abraham (the Sun), God (Aries), and Isaac and all the rest of 'em sacrificed and pitched into Hell (winter) together!
I never considered that the attempted murder of your own child is a test of faith. 🤔. . . 🤷. . . 🤦
It was the evil Moloch who told Abraham to sacrifice Isaac it was YHWH the Heavenly Father who intervened and sent Archangel Micha'EL the I Am to stop Abraham from sacrificing Isaac to the evil Moloch at which time Abraham started serving YHWH..
No so its because the message is misunderstood See Why God took Abraham on the mountain to kill his son, and what Abraham had to learn to become the Father of Many Nations.
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“A test of strength?” #First Amendment
God bless all
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This is a LITERALLY a psychopath test
It was the evil Moloch who told Abraham to sacrifice Isaac it was YHWH the Heavenly Father who intervened and sent Archangel Micha'EL the I Am to stop Abraham from sacrificing Isaac to the evil Moloch at which time Abraham started serving YHWH...
@@joshuabacon4564 that sounds like utter horse shit. Even if we take your comic book seriously, isn’t Yahweh omnipresent & omniscient? Was there some delay on the freeway as too why he waited till the last second to stop him
If you weren’t brainwashed & LITERALLY inserted ANY other deity like Zeus into this story, it’d be so clear. But instead you do these Olympic gold medal mental gymnastics to justify your comic book. Literally replace “evil” moloch w/ Thanos & Yahweh w/ Odín & it’s LITERALLY just as coherent what you said.
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A test of psychosis. Abraham failed.
it's the story of jesus. jesus prayed not to be crucified 3 times. therefore it wasn't jesus christ who was crucified but jesus barabbas who was taken instead
THE LESSON OF ABRAHAM'S ATTEMPTED MURDER OF ISAAC IS *DON'T* HAVE BLIND FAITH!
There is really only one morally sane way to interpret the "Akedah" or the Binding of Isaac--as a good example of how people, in an ancient time of savage oppression, scientific ignorance and woeful superstition, thought gods were like and what they had to do to appease them or else suffer their wrath! And how soon it was that professional religious institutions arose to take advantage of the fear people had of the gods whom they were certain controlled everything that happened all around them! But somewhere along the way, some people began to say, "Maybe you don't have to blindly believe what the priests of this or that god are telling you!"
Clearly, the moral of the story of the Binding of Isaac was to obey God without any question, not matter how crazy and contradictory it might seem, even if that the God told you something entirely different before! Your task is to obey and suppress any questions you may have. How convenient! Even today, what do we STILL hear from religious leaders, preachers and teachers in reference to this story--That whatever God tells you, you have to submit and don't allow an rhyme or reason get in the way! And then comes the insidious part, "Oh, so you're not sure what God is telling you? No problem, that's what we're here for!"
In other words, this is how they take control of your life and have you doing the nuttiest things--from giving huge portions of your paycheck to build giant cathedrals to voting for mega-millionaires who only want political power to exploit you for all they can! First, they convince you to "obey God without question," and then, when you can't seem to make heads or tails out of what that old King James Bible (the one with all the thee's and thou's in it) means or, if you were told in one form or another, "Just make Jesus your Lord and let him guide your life, then it will be so much better," only to find out that every time you tried doing what you thought was God talking to you, things went very badly...so you "better just let your pastor tell you what God is saying!"
The thing about the Bible is that it should NEVER be thought of as a book with 783,137 words (the number in the King James Bible) are completely encapsulated messages from God to YOU that never need be understood in any context! That's just like trying to figure out what a giant jigsaw puzzle picture looks like by only focusing on only a few "puzzle pieces" from about an inch away, something the Neo Evangelicals (Fundamentalists) are very prone to have you do!
The lesson of the Binding of Isaac is to NEVER LISTEN to any voice or feeling or bible interpretation that tells you to do anything that is immoral, stupid or both! Use the gifts God gave you (your brain, your reason and the ability to question) to find out the truth in any given situation or else become a slave to religious masters who have only the interests of themselves and their political/corporate allies at heart!
Rick Lannoye, author of www.amazon.com/Real-Life-Jesus-Nazareth-Really-Stood-ebook/dp/B09V4BJ62D
Are you a victim of Bible Abuse? Get help at ricklannoye.com/contact
He really tried to sell you his book on the basis of this comment lol.
I have no idea if this video supports or renounces the moral character of God, but either way, there is no dispute. If this *actually* happened, which it didn’t, then that makes God a selfish and petty monster completely unworthy of anyones worship or even admiration. Also, GOD IS ALL KNOWING. You can try to apologize for it all you want, the simple fact is that tests are given *only* to find results. If one already knows the results of said test beforehand, then a test is completely and utterly pointless.
It was the evil Moloch who told Abraham to sacrifice Isaac it was YHWH the Heavenly Father who intervened and sent Archangel Micha'EL the I Am to stop Abraham from sacrificing Isaac to the evil Moloch at which time Abraham started serving YHWH.
See Why God took Abraham on the mountain to kill his son, and what Abraham had to learn to become the Father of Many Nations.
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@@joshuabacon4564 ooooh ok. Good to know.
@@RajSingh-sz1nb I already know why. Thanks, though!
@@roostermcscratch9060 Amen
Nooooooooo. Please stop this false teachings
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All lies and made up stories by whoever wrote that book .
Woah until the day you meet God
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Also very possible this never happened and the whole story is BS.
Why are you here, then, my good man?
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This god is worse then the worst psychopath
We now approach the most remarkable act of Abraham's whole life - the attempted assassination of his only son, Isaac; and this simply by the command of God! The analogy between this and the crucifixion of our Savior is readily seen: but of this in its proper place. Having prepared all things necessary and marched within three days' (three months') journey of the place pointed out by God (Aries setting), he left his two servants (the spring equinox and summer solstice) with his ass, * while he (the Sun) and Isaac (summer) went forward. Poor Isaac wondered where was the sacrifice, but his father assured him all was right - that God (Aries setting) would provide it; and so, he did; for he, God, the Ram, was the sacrifice and Isaac as well. "And Abraham stretched forth his hand and took the knife to slay his son" (Gen. xxii, 10). Wonder what the poor boy thought of his pious daddy, when he saw the glittering blade poised above him! But the Lord called, and Abraham looked, and "behold a Ram caught in a thicket by his horns" (Aries was then setting head-first), which he seized and offered instead of his son. Thus, as the Sun went down below the fall equinox, were the Lord (summer), Abraham (the Sun), God (Aries), and Isaac and all the rest of 'em sacrificed and pitched into Hell (winter) together!
It was the evil Moloch who told Abraham to sacrifice Isaac it was YHWH the Heavenly Father who intervened and sent Archangel Micha'EL the I Am to stop Abraham from sacrificing Isaac to the evil Moloch at which time Abraham started serving YHWH.......
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in a modern context, this is horrifying. what an awful deity you christians have chosen.
"In a modern context". Your opinion fell down from the start
@@HearGodsWord Actually, he is right. The god presented in this video is a lunatic.