Comments on: Obama Speech on Religion

By: Dominick7

Dominick7 — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 06:43:50 +0000

He was told to sacrifice his son as a burnt offering. But God didn’t say exactly what kind of sacrifice, if it was spiritual or not. OR that He intended abraham to go through with it. God was testing him to let him demonstrate that he was WILLING to sacrifice his son, ie give up or commit his son to God. Gen 22:5 Abraham said he would come back down with his son after the sacrifice was made. vs 8 he says God will provide the offering. vs 12-13 +15-16 clarify the intent of the test.

By: Dominick7

Dominick7 — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 05:47:22 +0000

So no, you’re wrong, the point was whether he was WILLING to offer his son as a sacrifice to God, NOT whether he was going to surely murder him or not..ie to commit what is is very important to him to God in a real and challenging way. You take it out of context because you have a bias against it being true. You have a motive to not wanting it to be true for whatever hurt you’ve gone through which is understandable.

By: Dominick7

Dominick7 — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 05:34:41 +0000

About the flood God said the whole world was wicked and Him knowing the futures of the children being raised by such an evil generation God knew it would have only consumed+destroyed everything incl. Noah and his family along w the earth. Like a disease sin had to be quarantined otherwise it would have enveloped everything, If there were more righteous people God would have relented as in the case of Sodom. But it was ONLY Noah and his family. And their survival was threatened.

By: Kandene

Kandene — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 05:25:50 +0000

But if he was willing he would have to kill him or try to you can’t prove your willingness by saying you would do something or stop befor you do it. To him God wanted his son dead it was not to prove anything when he was going to murder his child.

By: Dominick7

Dominick7 — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 04:55:09 +0000

No. He was willing to sacrifice him, give him up, and the New Testament says Abraham reasoned that even if God had him kill him He was HAVE to raise Him from the dead because He already promised that he would have a lineage by his son. This is why he said they BOTH would come back down ALIVE. So he understood it as a test because God not only already promised he’d remain alive, and God cannot lie, and also because God doesn’t command but condemns child sacrifice and murder.

By: Dominick7

Dominick7 — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 04:23:09 +0000

You’re missing the point. If someone you trust/someone trust worthy told you to walk off a cliff at a certain time, someone who has NEVER directed you wrongly, and cares about you, and you didn’t know a boat would be right under it at the time I tell you to, are they asking you to murder yourself or are they testing you possibly thus not culpable?

By: Dominick7

Dominick7 — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 03:53:17 +0000

He’s a liberal christian, who has attended a cultic radical black liberation theology based church for 20 years. Liberals deny all the essential teachings of the christian faith so him being an Atheist is not much different.

By: Dominick7

Dominick7 — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 03:14:07 +0000

Nice! Well put. The only problem is that it makes too much sense, so your post will likely be rated badly by the scholars of youtube my friend.

By: rbe0717

rbe0717 — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 03:03:14 +0000

That’s the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard. Just ask Jim Jones, David Koresh, Andrea Yates, and that lady who cut off her baby’s arms because God told her to how obeying God’s every command worked out.

By: Kandene

Kandene — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 02:07:39 +0000

Again your missing the point it isn’t a test of faith if you know something. After you have knowledge of something it is no longer based in faith but facts.