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09-01-2007, 06:42 AM
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Location: Michigan, USA
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Re: Was Abraham insane?
A friend has a story, sort of halfway between a "joke" and a "parable":
A man is committed to an insane asylum, and the psychiatrist asks him, "Do you understand why you are here?" "Sure, because I'm crazy." "No, because you ACT crazy. Now do you understand when you will get out?" "When I stop being crazy?" "No, when you stop ACTING crazy." SO OK, Abraham was crazy, in a Bronze-Age kind of way, not the same as modern-age crazy but we've always been crazy one way or the other. He didn't act on it, and that's the point. |
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09-07-2007, 09:58 PM
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The Righteous Man
Join Date: Jul 2006
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Re: Was Abraham insane?
No. The fact of him being willing to kill his own son shows his how far his faith went. I don't think it should be taken literally it was like some kind of test, besides isn't it like God sacrificing Jesus? Like those sacrificial offerings?
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