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Originally Posted by Adam
Abraham was willing to kill his son. That bothers all thinking people. Seriously, every thinking person is uncomfortable with this fact to some degree. If you are not troubled by this fact, you aren't thinking about it.
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Abraham knew God intimately, on a personal level that you nor I will ever attain in mortality. Abraham was willing to obey God. The Messianic symbolism of the sacrifice of Isaac is obvious.
If we thought that
1. God might actually ask us to do the same thing
and
2. God wouldn't have an angel hold up the proceedings in the nick of time
Then it probably should disturb us. However, no one in their right mind would ever expect the above to happen, so to be that disturbed about the story indicates
1. A fundamental misunderstanding about the Abraham/Isaac story
2. A fundamental misunderstanding of what God requires of us
3. Paranoia and/or obtuse demagoguery.