# God **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [August 16, 2012, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god/631643 "2012-08-16T02:56:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 20
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2012, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god/631643/20 "2012-08-16T16:32:27Z")
> [@Eve's Home-Made Drag-Name Generator!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eves-home-made-drag-name-generator/77755/1): > > Second- I think Abraham had lots of second thoughts, as well he should have. And I think that if he had said to God “No God worth worshipping would ask this of me!”, God would have high-fived him & said “You got the lesson! Attaboy!” But he didn’t. Why? He may have realized that since God had promised him that a great people would come from him through Isaac, God had something up His sleeve- either a reprieve or a resurrection. The Christian writer of the Letter to the Hebrews supposes this in Chapter 11. Or Abraham may have been playing chicken with God & won when God said “Oh My Me! The nut’s actually gonna do it!” and swerved. Or it may have been that Abe took God’s command at face value. After all, he was surrounded by tribes in which human sacrifice, especially of a valued child, was occasionally practiced. And so God went a long way to make a point- From now on, be sure that I don’t accept human sacrifices! Don’t you think that Bible teachers are doing a terrible job? It took quite a while for anyone in this thread to point out that there was no Bible of any sort at the time of Abraham. It seems to me that most believers seem to get their knowledge from Biblical highlights from sermons and bible story books. This is not irrelevant. It is telling that even after Moses no one mentions the law until around the time of Jeremiah - which is strong support for the Bible actually being written much later than claimed. As to your point, from where do you think morality comes? Abraham got a direct command from God. What would the justification be for his refusing it? Why do you suppose he should have thought he could outsmart god? Even if he saw a contradiction, why do you suppose God would be bound by such things? This is the portion read during Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the year, and the meaning I was taught was very clear - obeying in the expectation that God will make things work out. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god/631643)._