Name: Deconstructing Abraham and Isaac | When God Commanded Child Sacrifice
Uploaded: 2024-06-19T15:41:32.000Z
Duration: 26 min 39 s
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Hi, welcome back to my channel where we are unpacking and deconstructing all of the things that we were taught growing up in fundamentalist and conservative Christian churches.

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My name is Christy, and today we're going to be continuing on in a series that I've been doing on deconstructing Bible stories, stories that we were taught in church, stories that we were taught in Sunday school, and seeing if we can come to a different conclusion than the conclusion that they wanted us to come to.

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So far, I have not come to any of the same conclusions that we came to when I was in the church.

I see things very differently, and you might see things very differently too, but the whole goal here is to really take the things that they taught us to believe were true, and the lessons that they wanted us to get out of these stories, and to figure out for ourselves how we feel about it, what we think, what we believe.

When you're raised in a Christian church, especially a high-control Christian church, you are fed these stories and taught that you're supposed to interpret it a certain way, you're supposed to feel a certain way about it, and that there is one lesson to get out of it, and they'll give you the lesson.

They'll tell you what to think and believe, but I think they do such a disservice to you when they don't give you the opportunity to figure out how you feel about these stories.

They don't give you the space to figure it out for yourself.

You might come up with a different perspective, but what's important is that you're willing to take the time to think about what you believe, rather than just clinging to what somebody else has told you.

Now, in this video, like all my others, I will be reading the Bible at face value, and

I will be doing this through a fundamentalist lens.

The goal of my channel is to kind of combat these fundamentalist evangelical ideologies, and within fundamentalism, these stories are true.

The Bible is the inerrant word of God, and it has been provided by God to give us a guide to Him, kind of a map to God, and what He wants, His desires, His plan, His purpose, all of that.

If that's the case, then I should be able to pick up a Bible and read it, and get whatever is being said, get whatever God is trying to tell me out of it.

If I can't do that, if I need to dig into the historical context, the ancient languages, if I need to contact theologians, and biblical scholars, and read concordances, and all of that, then I don't think it's the inspired word of God, and I don't think that it's the path to truth meant for all people, because not all people have access to those things.

Not all people have access to the resources, and the scholars, and all of that to be able to determine what was actually said in this ancient dead language.

I'm going to read the story, and just see how I feel about it, and let's see where we land.

Today's story is, by popular request, Abraham and Isaac, when Abraham is asked to sacrifice his only son to God, and God stops him right before it happens.

He spares him, he provides a lamb, and they live happily ever after.

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Let's get into the sacrifice of Isaac, starting in Genesis 22.

This is a pretty short story, so it probably won't take us very long to go through it.

After these things, God tested Abraham, and said to him, Abraham, and he said, here I am, an omniscient, omnipotent God.

He's calling out, Abraham, where are you?

And Abraham's like, hey God, I'm over here.

I just imagine, people actually think this really happened, and I just think that's so funny to think about that scenario.

He said, take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains, of which I shall tell you.

I ain't gonna tell you yet, because I haven't thought this through, but I will tell you, don't worry.

God has requested, demanded, commanded, that Abraham takes his son, his only son, whom he loves, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him as a burnt offering on the mountain.

Now in church, we know that they tell us, you know, that this story is a story of faith, right?

He had so much faith in God that he was willing to do whatever God told him.

And that, to me, is usually the moral of the story.

But if God is testing Abraham, and he was testing him on if he was going to do the right and moral, ethical thing, then I would think Abraham's answer would be immediately no.

Like he would pass the test by saying, no, God, I'm not going to do that.

And that would be the most moral answer he could give.

But it's not a test of morality and ethics.

And you would think that if God was testing Abraham to do the right thing in God's eyes, then that would be the most moral and ethical thing.

But in this scenario, the moral thing and the right thing are not the same thing.

In God's world, what's right and what's moral are not synonymous.

Because the moral thing is to say, no, I'm not going to sacrifice my son.

But God doesn't want him to answer that way.

God is testing him to see if he's going to have enough faith to do whatever God says, even if it's so awful that he would ask to give up his son.

So if Abraham is going to pass the test and do what is right, he's going to say no, right?

So Abraham rose early, verse three, Abraham rose early in the morning, saddled his donkey and took two of his young men with him and his son Isaac.

And then he cut the wood for the burnt offering and arose and went to the place of which God had told him.

On the third day, Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place from afar.

Then Abraham said to his young men, stay here with the donkey.

I and the boy will go over there and worship and come again to you.

And 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.

And Isaac said to his father, Abraham, my father.

But where's the lamb for a burnt offering?

Abraham said, God will provide for himself the lamb for a burnt offering my son.

So let's rewind just a little bit and just kind of sit on the fact that there was no back and forth between God and Abraham.

He didn't say, why are you asking me to do this?

There was immediately, okay, I'm doing this.

And it's crazy that Abraham is just praised for this.

But then we move on and we see that, you know, they're gathering everything up.

And Isaac notices that there's not a lamb for the burnt offering.