If what you write was right, then your argument falls!

Since you deleted it, It leave me with no option than to imagine that, this blog is truly Unreasonable faith, for Unreasonable mind?

Do not create truth, Find truth. And let other find it for themselves too!

Be honest, don’t delete comment against what you wrote! It is simply Unreasonable Decision.

What-God-will-Do-this-or-that (Horrible things)..? Was my hiding zone! By thinking of “sick and twisted entity, an abomination” God I felt comfortable living my life without God.

And I had the same attitude ” I have done the best I could” If there is God! No! We can not and will not be able to please Him, We Lie,We will Lie, We go against our conscience, and trust me we will still do that?

How many lie do you have to tell to be a lier? How many people you have to kill to be a killer?

Oh, I do more good than bad! Is that it!? Adolf Hilter could and possibly did that to Germany! If A Hilter did more good would that eliminate him as a Horrible being?

We are not condemned for what we did right? but what we did wrong. If that is so, Where will you stand?

The world had a begining,therefore has the end. Is that it? I am randomly here with no purpose, evolved to eat,grow, fight and multiply to survive… Game over? No, no matter how hard I tried to think that was so, I know we are here for a higher reason( That is why we love DRAMA :D(Fights,Football,Movies,Fun) ) Something more, something bigger…

If there is God, We will face Him! No matter how we think of Him. I am a horrible person! Not a religious type for they are worst! I am simply a person who accepts Jesus Christ, For He promised, In him alone I can face God without condemnation!

In addition, Weigh both side of anything you learn or find! For and Against. Conclude for yourself. I chose Jesus Christ, You do not have to do the same as you when a Kid dragged around(in Church) I hated that too :D

Yet do not let hate(or other feelings) guard you. Don’t create Truth, Find Truth!

I disagree with your contention that all morality comes from your god, because we see that even societies which developed without christian influence have the same concepts of morality as christian societies. At times, non-christian societies are morally superior. Where are the Buddhist Crusades?

I would argue, just like so many of the atheist posters on this blog before me, that any god who would order his follower to slay his son as a test of devotion is a sick and twisted entity, an abomination, to use a word from the old testament vocabulary.

Isaac, replaced by the Lamb, Jesus the Lamb of God

Same Mountain rage where Abraham was suppose to give Isaac are geographical same with were Jesus was Crusified

Is this Coincidence?

We tend to remove God from His place, because we just can not please Him? We create all possible argument to deny Him? We even learn how to leave a Godless life! We would rather go to Hell than Worship God!

Why? We can not please God! and We know it! Though we try to leave a Godless life, we still have Moral in us, Conscience telling us what is write and wrong!

If the our conscience is right, If God is there… where would you stand once you face Him?

I have Chosen Jesus, for when I face God, I am us guilty as pinocchio :D But Jesus promised through Him alone I will be guiltless

Werther you believe God or Not? Ask yourself IF and only IF, God is there, were is your destination?

The kid knows that their parents will do anything that God calls them to do. This story immediately destroys the relationship between child and parent. The child is taught to believe that his/her parents are such very, very good people in their dedication to God.

They also know that their parent will always ultimately put God and His “Will” above the child. In a sense the child can then never fully trust his/her own parents. A sad state of affairs and indeed an evil God.

Not being an expert on that sort of thing, I want to stop short of saying that it was portrayed a certain way then, but I personally feel pretty certain both stories (particularly Abram’s) have been used to those ends. In fact, the church I attended when I first believed must have delivered 2 or 3 sermons on Abraham’s faith in a year.

Also, I think keeping vows to that same being seems like a good idea. It seems that, however ignoble the vow itself, Jephthah agreed.

Ha. Fair enough. Was trying to go a different route than what had already been posted. Sometimes, that leads to an explanation that flat out sucks.

I’ll try not to do that next time… I certainly don’t want to waste anyone’s time. Apologies.

However, it does lead me to ask as to how you “know” Proverbs/Ecclesiastes/Job is supposed to be interpreted as “wisdom” and Joshua, 1&2 Kings, 1&2 Judges, 1&2 Samuel as “history”.

I’m guessing that you have Super-Special Cliff’s Notes that are somehow unavailable to the rest of us. [/nullifidian]

Ha, sure thing. I suppose I know it the same way any of us knows anything that isn’t innate: I read books on theology, checked websites (American Bible Society, for one), that sort of thing.

Again, you can tell from the tone/content of those books, to a certain degree. The wisdom books, particularly Proverbs and Ecclesiastes, don’t make any historical claims, and are predominantly focused on a life well-lived. Meanwhile, Psalms and Song of Solomon/Songs have a pretty distinct poetic tone to them… I’m not making this up–you can see for yourself if you like. You can tell in the same way you can tell that Robert Frost isn’t laying out an historical or some doctrinal prose.

Super Secret Cliff’s Notes would be helpful, of course, but I have access to the same information you do. There’s no secret society that passes these sorts of things around.

As I said, the categorization of the books of the Bible is a pretty well-known thing, at least to those who give more than 12 seconds’ attention to anything past the sermon they hear on Sunday (a tragically small number, methinks). Kids are taught in Sunday school and everything… I think they have songs that help them remember. I wouldn’t know, I was never in Sunday school. (and when I hear some of the songs, I’m glad)

Also, the “thou shall not murder/kill” supposedly happened with Moses, well after Abraham.

2) Child sacrifice laws existed. They could have been changed (as the god in question is supposed to have done with the Moses and Jesus characters) the laws at any time and without external prompting.

3) I think that’s the lamest apologetic I’ve ever heard.