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Originally Posted by Indy Coug
God hasn't even told me to go the church or help an old lady walk across the street, so I doubt he'd suddenly start up a dialog with me by opening with "why don't you puree Mrs. Jones?"
Abraham wasn't exactly strangers with God when he got the "Isaac Directive". Abraham had communed with God for years and years, on a level that few mortals, if any, have experienced. Trying to analogize the Laffertys with Abraham/Isaac is to gloss over the huge differences between the two and how they arrived at that critical moment.
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IF, that is how it happened. Perhaps it happened just that way, and perhaps it didn't. I don't believe a witness in the restored Gospel requires a witness of all the events in the OT as historically accurate. However, I believe, a little like Pelagius, we have an obligation if we are to remain believers to look for value even in those extreme situation. And yes I'm familiar with the orthodox understandings of the Abraham/Isaac sacrifice.