Tag Archives: Faith and Reason
Difficult Text, Quick Answer: The Sacrifice of Isaac
Q: How could a good God command Abraham to sacrifice his only son?
A: As always, it’s important to read the whole text and not to take it out of context. Any Israelite encountering this story for the first time would have been genuinely horrified when they heard God’s command.
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Tagged "Leap of Faith" (Not), Difficult Texts, Faith and Reason, Isaac and Abraham, Old Testament, The Bible Tells Me So!
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David Hume, Miracles and the Speculations of The Spectator
In a recent article in the Spectator, Matthew Parris writes:
I wish I were a religious conservative: the field’s wide open. It must be dispiriting for believers to encounter so little intelligent support for belief. It’s certainly infuriating for us non-believers, because there’s hardly anyone left who seems capable of giving us a good argument.
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Posted in Existence of God, Historical Jesus, Quick Thoughts
Tagged Faith and Reason, Hume, Miracles, Myths of Secularism
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