Comment on Christianity. by hyokkim

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hyokkim · 9/8/2025, 6:29:25 PM · permalink

22 Some time later God tested Abraham. He said to him, “Abraham!”

“Here I am,” he replied.

2 Then God said, “Take your son, your only son, whom you love—Isaac—and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on a mountain I will show you.”

3 Early the next morning Abraham got up and loaded his donkey. He took with him two of his servants and his son Isaac. When he had cut enough wood for the burnt offering, he set out for the place God had told him about. 4 On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance. 5 He said to his servants, “Stay here with the donkey while I and the boy go over there. We will worship and then we will come back to you.”

6 Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and placed it on his son Isaac, and he himself carried the fire and the knife. As the two of them went on together, 7 Isaac spoke up and said to his father Abraham, “Father?”

“Yes, my son?” Abraham replied.

“The fire and wood are here,” Isaac said, “but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?”

8 Abraham answered, “God himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son.” And the two of them went on together.

9 When they reached the place God had told him about, Abraham built an altar there and arranged the wood on it. He bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood. 10 Then he reached out his hand and took the knife to slay his son. 11 But the angel of the Lord called out to him from heaven, “Abraham! Abraham!”

“Here I am,” he replied.

12 “Do not lay a hand on the boy,” he said. “Do not do anything to him. Now I know that you fear God, because you have not withheld from me your son, your only son.” - Genesis 22  
  
This means God had not known Abraham feared Him; God is supposed to know everything in the world, the past, the future as well as present.

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''Whew! We're getting into the weeds. I'm no theologian, but the questions you raise have been examined since the time of Augustine. If you are thirsting for the truth, go to those works and others-Calvin, Luther.''  
  
I had already done that a long time ago; one has no free will under omniscient God, only an illusion of free will; why the doctrine of predestination has been attacked for centuries as a heresy.  
  
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predestination  
  
''Maybe some day you will have contrition for hatred of GOD.''  
  
I do not hate God; I want to replace Him, take His place, and turn the universe into better world than under Him.  
  
![video](https://www.youtube.com/embed/CvS72cddqGw)
  
''I suggest, as an elder who has fear of GOD, you start off with smaller matters of guilt. Ask yourself what you would have done when you saw Abraham holding the knife to slay Isaac. Would you just stand around and let it happen? People just watch. If you did step up like a man, wouldn't you be on GOD's side when HE intervened?''  
  
Why would God who already had known my faith have tested my faith to find out whether I had believed in Him or not?   That directly contradicts His 'word' that He is omniscient.  
  
''If you don't believe you have free will, there isn't much point of scripture.''  
  
God would/should know about my fate/destiny, long before I was born.   I would be only fulfilling what God has already known eons before I was even born; how can there be free will when I cannot defy His will, based on His foreknowledge.

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