How Do You Know You're Not Wrong?: Responding to Objections That Leave Christians Speechless by Paul Copan

Author:Paul Copan [Copan, Paul]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Philosophy
ISBN: 0801064996
Amazon: B00B8563PM
Barnesnoble: B00B8563PM
Goodreads: 129700
Publisher: Baker Books
Published: 2005-08-01T00:00:00+00:00

PART III

SLOGANS RELATED TO CHRISTIANITY

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HOW COULD GOD COMMAND ABRAHAM TO SACRIFICE ISAAC?

Now it came about . . . that God tested Abraham, and said to him, “Abraham!” And he said, “Here I am.” He said, “Take now your son, your only son, whom you love, Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I will tell you.” So Abraham rose early in the morning and saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him and Isaac his son; and he split wood for the burnt offering, and arose and went to the place of which God had told him. On the third day Abraham raised his eyes and saw the place from a distance. Abraham said to his young men, “Stay here with the donkey, and I and the lad will go over there; and we will worship and return to you.” Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son, and he took in his hand the fire and the knife. So the two of them walked on together. Isaac spoke to Abraham his father and said, “My father!” And he said, “Here I am, my son.” And he said, “Behold, the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?” Abraham said, “God will provide for Himself the lamb for the burnt offering, my son.” So the two of them walked on together.

Then they came to the place of which God had told him; and Abraham built the altar there and arranged the wood, and bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood. Abraham stretched out his hand and took the knife to slay his son. But the angel of the Lord called to him from heaven and said, “Abraham, Abraham!” And he said, “Here I am.” He said, “Do not stretch out your hand against the lad, and do nothing to him; for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me.” Then Abraham raised his eyes and looked, and behold, behind him a ram caught in the thicket by his horns; and Abraham went and took the ram and offered him up for a burnt offering in the place of his son. Abraham called the name of that place The Lord Will Provide.

Genesis 22:1–14a

Now and then we might read in the newspaper or hear on the evening news about a deluded person who has murdered someone, claiming, “God told me to do it!” Another individual might use this line to justify divorcing a spouse (in order to marry a co-worker, perhaps). God’s name is often dragged into circumstances or actions that are wholly alien to his good character and for which he wouldn’t want any credit. But what do we do when we’re confronted with God’s command to Abraham, “Take now your son, your only son, whom you love .

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