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Originally Posted by missourimary
No, God did not command Abraham to sin. That's the whole point. He commanded Abraham to start toward an end that would have been sin had it been seen through to the end. Because God knew He would stop the action before the end, though, it had a purpose other than sin.
If you ask your son to hold his hand over a flame to prove the point that fire is hot and shouldn't be played with, but remove his hand before it gets burnt, is that child abuse? No. It wasn't wrong because it was intended to teach, not harm. And when God asked Abraham to offer Isaac, He was also teaching, not harming.
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But think of it from Abraham's point of view. God gives the order, "Sacrifice Isaac". Before he started to carry it out (which, as we know, he did), wouldn't Abraham have considered this to be God commanding him to sin?
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