We should all know that killing is wrong. God commands that we not kill. Then, what kind of test was Abraham facing? Shouldn't he have disobeyed God since the request was EVIL?
2007-02-09 06:29:00 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Abraham had faith you know nothing about.
2007-02-09 06:31:12 · answer #1 · answered by Tribble Macher 6 · 5⤊ 2⤋
God is not evil. You do what God tells you to do. There is always righteousness to everything that God does. If you knew the true nature of God, you would not have to ask this question. God knew Abraham's heart before the request was made. This test was more for Abraham to understand his own heart. God knew well before he ever made the request how it would turn out. Abraham didn't. But being submissive to God and willing to obey God's every command gave Abraham the right to a special and far reaching blessing. That through his posterity all nations would be blessed.
2007-02-09 06:45:30 · answer #2 · answered by rbarc 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We are born into a world separated from the LORD therefore knowing only of the ways that work accordingly. Here all things tend toward disorganization. Evil depicted in Scripture refers to an apple on the ground having fallen from the tree and is so evil that one must eat it while it is yet in the hand. Evil here means ripe, in the process of disorganization.
Our thoughts understand things from the manner we are accustomed. If we read this for the essential Form, Parallelism,
we are redirected to metaphorical language.
Setting aside our evil ways we see: Abraham, The Father of All Living binding Isaac, Laughter.
2007-02-12 02:03:12 · answer #3 · answered by marian 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Context. Context. Context.
Abraham lived hundreds of years before the Ten Commandments were given to Moses and the Jewish people.
Abraham lived in a society where human sacrifice and child sacrifice was the normal thing to do.
God was just beginning to reveal himself to mankind and Abraham did not have the Bible or much of anything else to go on.
Abraham knew that his son was a gift from God. If God demanded that Abraham kill the son, then Abraham, although it probably broke his heart, would do it.
Under the same circumstances (context) would we be able to follow God's will?
Under the much easier circumstances that we live in today, can we follow God's will as Jesus revealed it to us?
With the Ten Commandments, the Prophets, and especially Jesus Christ as part of our current circumstances (context), God would not put us to this test.
But we do have similar issues to tackle, like abortion where we kill our children who are miraculous gifts from God just like Isaac was to Abraham.
In abortion we sacrifice our children to the gods of lust, convenience, economy, and selfishness.
With love in Christ.
2007-02-11 17:29:04 · answer #4 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You have to understand the time period abraham lived in...it was the land of pagans, and thats how they worshipped their many gods...this was before the 10 commandments, and so no one really thought twice about killing someone, or having someone killed. Although, Abraham did have enough faith that God would provide for him that he did just as God asked, and sure enough, an angel of the lord stopped him, and directed him to a ram in the bushes that had not been there before.
2007-02-09 06:35:54 · answer #5 · answered by B 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I would not obey God if he told me to kill my ony son. Heck, I wouldn't obey him if he told me to kill an unbeliever.
Andrea Yates, a bible-believing christian, drowned her 5 boys to save them from demons. Why isn't she applauded for her faith? How do we know the same god that told Abraham to sacrifice his son didn't tell her to sacrifice her five sons? I guess I am being a bit sarcastic.
This test is an abusive and sick test of faith. I refuse to accept any god that would demand such a sacrifice, and certainly not any god that would kill his own son.
That said, Jesus is all right by me. He was born into a sick and twisted controlling and judgmental religion, and taught and lived love.
2007-02-09 06:48:14 · answer #6 · answered by teach_empathy 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Abraham's son was not his God. God was his God. It was a test of the depth of his love for God. When God halted Abraham's thrust that would kill his son, what did God give him in place of Issac? A lamb. This was a sign, a symbol, of the other Lamb that God would someday give the world. HIS SON!
2007-02-09 06:36:07 · answer #7 · answered by momstheword 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Context. Context. Context.
Yes, that Abraham was a bad man. Just look at what he did to that Arab gal; he raped her. Of course the catholics say rape is OK, as long as somebody does the hail mary mess.
With love in all mens.
2007-02-11 20:03:31 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Son,if you have read the whole story in its entirety you would have understood it and not gotten on here asking such a stupid question like this.
God is not immoral but the spirit that is in you that led you to ask this question is.
2007-02-09 06:36:58 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Abraham proved to Allah that he had more love for God than for any mortal being or possessions. Allah saw this and granted that Abraham not kill his son, saying that he had passed the test of faith. Allah did not, and would not have, allowed Abraham to murder his own son.
As-Salaamu Alaikum - Peace be upon you
2007-02-09 06:35:13 · answer #10 · answered by Maverick 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋
God is the creater of all things, so it is up to his just decisions on when to end life, who are we to argue?
2007-02-09 06:36:35 · answer #11 · answered by Daniel K 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋