Spiritual thoughts and ideas you have nowhere to write down

[Coordinate_Apotheosis]

I'd like to know whose side God is on. It seems not mine. When I heard his voice he told me to kill. But maybe I'm missing something.

In the Bible there is a story where God tells someone to kill.  Then just before the death occurred God stopped the situation and said the entire point was to test the faith of the person.

Maybe God was just testing your faith?  Only in light of the fiction of the bible and the non-fiction of reality, the test may have been to discern the proper thing to do instead of 'blindly listening'?

I wouldn't refer to the bible for any answers. This so-called test of faith ended in killing an innocent lamb instead of Abraham's little son, and somehow that was okay.

Looking for answers sometimes means we look outside the box, especially into areas we have a tendency to avoid. Gemini, do you get out of the house (and your head) much? A change of perspective can work wonders.

Well thankfully in that instance I take the tale to be fictional, metaphorical, so hopefully no animals were harmed in the making of that story.

I think if we can see through the blatant horror of the bible, there's metaphysical essons riddled throughout it waiting to be found or at least noticed.

...But as to the polarity of those lessons...  The Bible is a big mixed up book of ancient history retold as tales and lies branded as truth as well as some parts purely made up by the Human editors and then lost to impurity from a plethora of translations over the centuries.

Yet if it works for some, it is valid...Even if gruesome...  I think this story in particular goes to editors hoping to paint a cruel monster in a brighter light, by switching out the level of sacrifice it demanded while still saying that those who are obedient to this cruel monster will be given mercy and spared from it's wrath.

An ironic hypocrisy, but perhaps holding more wisdom underneath the facade of the tale, between the lines.