Genesis 22 is a great story.
It might speak to an older rites of passage for boys to become men among pre-Iseralites of Cannan.
“Here I am.” … is also an astounding way to respond back to a god. And 22 is neat because it uses both ELOHIM and YHWH but the change is mid story. It links to perhaps two stories pushed into one.
Really don’t be such a party pooper. The Jewish take on this so I’m told is that their god requires obedience and a sense of duty. The Xian one sees it as an fact of blind faith in their Lord. Islam even has dibs on this story. So I took time to find why it is meaningful. And learn to address that meaning instead of the story.
All these religious nutties are more interesting when you can offer them more about their texts than they can.
That’s not exactly what happened. Circumcision was already a custom, but the rest is spot on.
What do you mean? Do you believe Abraham actually existed? Because according to the Bible God invented MGM with Abraham. And I thought we were talking about what the Bible said and how it was crazy, not whatever a historical Abraham might have actually done.
Not sure what a movie studio has to do with anything, I was just pointing out that circumcision was probably a custom in that area already.
MGM is an acronym of male genital mutilation
At some point people have to get over the memey catch phrases and start to talk like adults about this situation.
man, acronyms be gettin’ out of hand ngl
I would agree if it was some random dude but the fact that actually a great Nation came out of him and then even all nations where blessed in him and now worship the God of Abraham is strong evidence that he was right all along.
No evidence has been found to indicate Abraham was a real person
And yet, no one would have ever thought that the God of this small country, Israel, who did not intend o spread their religion, would be worshipped by people of all the world but yet it was prophesied and yet it happened.
Isreal isn’t a country. Also, if you look at history it’s pretty common that some random person and some random text can start religions. It just takes people wanting to believe and be a part of something that other people around them are a part of. There is nothing special about any one religion.
It looks like you want to believe that
Meaningless
Don’t be so hard to yourself.
