Posted on 01/26/2015 7:58:42 AM PST by SeekAndFind
This pathetic writer needs to stop considering the feeble meanderings of non-Christians to whom Christianity is foolishness, and read some true Christian studies on Abraham and his faith.
Isaac asked his father where they could find a sacrifice in this scenario. Abraham replied that God would provide. Abraham's faith was that he would not have to kill Isaac at all.
This so-called writer clearly never bothered to read the Biblical text and just took what this ninny Biddle wrote as gospel. If this is the level of intellect and spirit-directed apology today, Christianity is in real trouble.
BTW, if God tells me to kill, I'll kill. No flimsy humanist ethics will stop me from serving the Almighty Creator of All.
This is just a way to get Christians to accept just as much responsibility for abortion as the monsters who legalized it.
Here is a very good article on the problem of objectivism (if one does not have the time to read an entire book):
http://www.ignatiusinsight.com/features2011/jkidd_aynrand_apr2011.asp
You win the internet for the shortest, yet most comprehensively complete answer of the day.
You are exactly correct!
Start with this first book
http://www.genesis6giants.com/
Dawg gone thing is thick like a text book but is interesting. Or you can just listen to him on youtube.
Any way the reason God wiped out all those towns? Their DNA was tainted. Same reason he put Noah on the ark.
“does Christianity call for human sacrifice? Are believers called to surrender their interests and judgment to the whim of God? If God called upon you to kill your son or wipe out a village or slaughter adulterers, would you do it? Why or why not?”
The questions are the result of careless thinking. Focus, Mr. Hudson. And you will see that the two actions—surrendering to God’s will and human sacrifice—exist in two separate categories. Yet you treat them as though they were on the same level.
Abraham’s intention to sacrifice his son only had value in that Abraham was obeying God.
But obeying God has value in itself. To understand this distinction you must abandon second rate thinking.
There is also this found in the Genesis story:
5 He said to his servants, “Stay here with the donkey while I and the boy go over there. We will worship and then we will come back to you.”
The fact that Abraham said, “WE will come back to you,” indicates he had the assurance (by faith) that whatever God was going to do was not going to result in the annihilation of his son.
Good Catch!
Politically correct...just wanting to show that Christians are blood thirsty barbarians like Islam is.. always justifying Muslims..
Thanks for that, I hadn’t noticed it.
And voice telling me to murder someone is not God.
This falls into the *If God can do anything, can he make something to heavy for Himself to lift?*
Starts with a false premise, hence the whole argument falls apart.
In Abraham’s day, pagans often sacrificed their firstborn. I always thought the story was not about Abraham’s obedience but about showing him Jehovah disapproved of human sacrifice.
As for wiping out cities, again this was alas common in those days. And archeology suggests the coexistance described in Kings was probably closer to the truth than the massacres described in Joshua.
The whole article is a “straw man” argument, and not worth a discussion.
Oh yes...these arguments were rebutted in Pope Benedict’s Regensburg speech. Catholics long have used natural law and logic for moral judgements.God is the source of good, but cannot do evil...and he placed the knowledge of good and evil into the hearts of men.
And Benedict got into hot water for pointing out Muslims would choose their magic book to justify evil deeds but Christians have long rejected the idea.
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