Would You Choose to Live in Heaven?

[Rhea]

I feel like the REAL test was, “will you kill your son for me?” And Abraham was supposed to say “No! Holy shit, are you Satan? My God would never ever ask that! The answer is no!” but guess who actually won that battle in heaven and who wrote the bible? Hmmm?

In a way, it seems like THIS was the REAL fall from Eden.
The LOSS of the knowledge of good and evil.

 

[Rhea]

Genesis 22:1-2 - And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am. And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him therefor a burnt offeringupon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.

Ah...you see?
It says offer him.

Did you also read the part where Isaac asks Abraham where the sacrifice is? Abraham doesn't say..."don't be stupid Isaac, you are the sacrifice."

No, he reassures Isaac that God will provide the sacrifice....which of course God does.

Say, what’s the deal with “thine only son” part here, anyway? Abraham has 8 sons (he may have daughters, as well, but Jesus doesn’t care about girls, doesn’t think they are worth talking about. You know.). Anyway, Abraham has 8 sons, at least one of whom, Ishmael, is definitely born and alive at the time the writers say that Abraham has only one son.

Maybe this cruel rejection of his other ACTUAL SON speaks to why Ishmael was envious of Isaac. Maybe this speaks to why Abraham was willing to tie his kid to a pyre and hold a knife to his neck, “ha ha, God thinks I only have one son, but I already have another one. BoooYa!”

 

[ideologyhunter]

Genesis 22:1-2 - And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am. And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him therefor a burnt offeringupon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.

Ah...you see?
It says offer him.

Did you also read the part where Isaac asks Abraham where the sacrifice is? Abraham doesn't say..."don't be stupid Isaac, you are the sacrifice."

No, he reassures Isaac that God will provide the sacrifice....which of course God does.

Say, what’s the deal with “thine only son” part here, anyway? Abraham has 8 sons (he may have daughters, as well, but Jesus doesn’t care about girls, doesn’t think they are worth talking about. You know.). Anyway, Abraham has 8 sons, at least one of whom, Ishmael, is definitely born and alive at the time the writers say that Abraham has only one son.

Maybe this cruel rejection of his other ACTUAL SON speaks to why Ishmael was envious of Isaac. Maybe this speaks to why Abraham was willing to tie his kid to a pyre and hold a knife to his neck, “ha ha, God thinks I only have one son, but I already have another one. BoooYa!”

Hear me out. I wish to attempt a modern exegesis here, based on my understanding of OT traditions, the nature of sin, the nature of faith, and what I've seen on Nancy Grace. Let's start with...
Gen. 17:23-5: In one day, Abraham circumcises 13-year-old Ishmael, PLUS all the other males of the household, PLUS all his male slaves. I'm sorry, but that's a lot of penis time for a 99-year-old man. I'm supposed to believe this was just work for him?
Gen. 18: In this chapter, Abraham mulls over the people of Sodom, and obsesses over all those people hooking up and railing each other. Umm...ever heard of Jimmy Swaggart and other preachers, who go on and on about lust and "chasms of hellfire sin"?? You think too much about that stuff and...just saying.
Gen. 22: Abraham takes the kid way out into the country, has his two servants wait behind, and walks the kid out to a mountain, out of sight of the servants. This is right out of To Catch a Predator, by now. He ties the kid up!! At this point the kid has been through genital mutilation, kidnap, and bondage. Is it any wonder Abraham wanted him to be silenced, for good? Apparently the kid was saved only because the old man (99, remember) had sunstroke and thought he heard a sky deity talking to him. Apparently the kid got good and scared by his old (old) man's crazy shit, scared enough to keep his dark secret hidden from the world. UNTIL NOW.