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An updated strategy for victory.
April 1, 2022
God Doesn’t Command Abraham to Kill His Son, but to Sacrifice Him
Why not throw out troubling parts of the Bible?
To the modern reader, passages like Genesis 22—known to Jews as the Binding of Isaac—pose a moral and ethical affront. So why don’t believers follow the example of Thomas Jefferson, who simply cut out of his Bible those passages he disapproved of? Jon D. Levenson, in answering this question, presents an original reading of this chapter in the context of the story of Abraham. (Interview by Kathryn Schifferdecker and Katie Langston. Video, 31 minutes.)
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God Doesn’t Command Abraham to Kill His Son, but to Sacrifice Him
Why not throw out troubling parts of the Bible?
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