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This week we get to the biography of Isaac. The text is horrifying, and I mean horror movie horrifying. God commands Abraham to cut his son’s throat and burn him on an altar. His ‘only son’. We rush ahead to the end of the story, but in preparing to preach I am trying not to do that. What kind of God makes this command?
Most American Christians have no room in their theology for the dangerousness of God.
This is quite strange, since at the center of our faith is the bloody, splintery, evil slaughter of the Son, as ordained by the Father.
Should be an intense time of preaching
This week we get to the biography of Isaac. The text is horrifying, and I mean horror movie horrifying. God commands Abraham to cut his son’s throat and burn him on an altar. His ‘only son’. We rush ahead to the end of the story, but in preparing to preach I am trying not to do that. What kind of God makes this command?
Most American Christians have no room in their theology for the dangerousness of God.
This is quite strange, since at the center of our faith is the bloody, splintery, evil slaughter of the Son, as ordained by the Father.
Should be an intense time of preaching