>>No, my dear, it’s not a metaphor. You want it to be, so you say it is, and you think that because you said it, well, then it must be. But it’s not. When Abraham was willing to kill Isaac, no law was being broken.<<
Sorry sweetie. It was a metaphor. Since Exodus 20:13 precedes
Exodus 21:17, it cannot be interpreted any other way.
Who told Abraham to offer his son and why?
So if two verses contradict each other, you pick the one you like and call the other a metaphor? That’s convenient. Not as tidy as the Muslim “go by the 2nd one” rule, but far more... elastic, shall we say? The most useful religion is the most elastic, isn’t it?