Abraham

Nathan Spears · 11 Apr 2005, 15:24 · from 2005-April.txt.gz

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From: spearofsolomon at yahoo.com (Nathan Spears)
Date: Mon Apr 11 15:24:29 2005
Subject: (urth) Abraham
In-Reply-To: 6667
Message-ID: <20050411222151.93528.qmail at web54402.mail.yahoo.com>

I'm with you.  But for those who believe in the story literally, or even those who
look to Biblical story as templates for their own actions, the fact that it is
symbolic of later events doesn't change the facts of the almost-sacrifice of Isaac
itself.  In other words, God wouldn't have acted this way, or even told such a
story, in order to simply illustrate a future event.  The actions of the story also
have to be consistent with the way God behaves, right?

Nate

--- James Wynn <thewynns at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
> >It isn't small in Christian theology either, of course, with the
> >sacrifice of a miraculously-born son being a "type" of the Father's
> >sacrifice of His Son.
> 
> Who has a ram provided by God sacrificed in his place. In Christian 
> theology, Isaac is a "type" for the Christ *and* mankind. The story is 
> literally stewing in available Christian symbolism.  Just the sort of 
> overloading of symbolism that Wolfe is so keen on.
> 
> ~ Crush 
> 
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