Genesis: Noah - Abraham

^{Genesis 6:7-10 God decides, except for (8 people) Noah, his
wife, his sons Shem, Ham and Japheth and their wives Who? Who? and Who? and some of each kind of animals (including serpents?),
God would murder every living thing.}

^{If God is a jealous God and if there is but one God, no other
Gods to be jealous of, what is going on here? Paranoia? Schizophrenia? Is this God moral? Loving? Fair? Sane? Does the God
depicted perform evil for His own pleasure? God is obviously not in control.}

^{Did Noah leave any daughters behind to drown in the flood? How
come Mrs. Noah has no name and says nothing? Was she angry with Noah, God and the whole setup?}

^{By dealing with these questions and maybe some of your own, do
you feel fear? Yes, we have been programmed eternal pain, but we were also programmed that this was a God of love. Do you
see any love here? Granted, this study and awareness does take courage...}

^{Intellect: The speed and accuracy of perceiving and understanding
things. The ability to perceive relations and differences; it is distinguished outside of will and feeling.}

^{If one emotionally does not want to make sense of things, one’s
intelligence can definitely be affected by the feelings that make up his or her attitude.}

^{Genesis 6:6-14 God spoke to Noah: Every living substance I have
made, I will destroy from off the face of the Earth. Every thing that is in the Earth shall die.}

^{What a model}^{! If we are all God’s children, does this not qualify for child-abuse? Isn’t God clearing out "corrupt
genes" that He, God Himself, created? Does it not take an imperfect creator to create something imperfect? Haven’t human
fathers murdered their own beloved children due to their disappointments?}

^{Genesis 7:2 God said: Of every clean animal, take seven
(7) pairs each, male and its mate aboard the ark; of unclean animals, take one (1) pair each.}

^{Seven (7) pairs. Are you surprised? And, one thinks one knows
one’s Bible…}

^{Genesis 7:13 Noah, his wife (who), his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth
and their three (3) wives entered the ark.}

^{Wouldn’t you think the mothers of all mankind would be
important enough to be named? But - Nooo!!!}

^{Burt Visotzky: I am a rabbi and I have a vested interest
in promoting rabbinical tradition. I recognize that friendliness to women is not part of the tradition.}

^{Genesis 7:21-23 All creatures, outside the ark, that stirred
on Earth God murdered by drowning.}

^{Who, right here, proves to be the greatest adversary? Are these
deeds moral, fair, loving? "Good God" drowns all the living organisms. Man, obviously, has the power to give this God
of the Universe enough pain to motivate this cruelest of all deeds. Frustrated babies behave better. In your Bible, has there
been any mention of a Devil or any Satan, yet?}

^{God creates mankind for His own pleasure (Revelation 4:11
KJV) than destroys men, women and their babies when He wasn’t pleased. Wasn’t God’s pleasure at the expense
and suffering of others? Is this the success-model God left for human egos to follow and emulate?}

^{Rabbi Burton Visotzky: God claims his creation is good then realized
it wasn’t so good. God destroys his creation and starts all over again. God was dissatisfied in Himself. God tries something.
It isn’t right. He destroys it and tries again.}

^{So, Rabbi Visotzky, are you saying that reputed "Know-It-All"
God was experimenting?}

^{Gene Roddenberry: "We must question the story logic of having
an all-knowing, all-powerful God who creates faulty humans and then blames them for His own mistakes."}

^{Shopenhauer alluded to an infant god who walked away from his
first infantile creation; a tottering, senile god who later died.}

^{Was the Biblical God one of compassion? Did God show that He
cared anything about the screaming, horrified mothers or the crying of their babies or the panic of all the drowning animals?
No! God just complains about His disappointment, then carries out a murderous vengeance by destroying almost every life-form
He had made. The Kicker is: With the sacrifice of all those lives, God still failed to destroy evil. Was God, Himself, the
evil?}

^{Karen Armstrong - former nun and writer: God (in Genesis) is
an undeveloped child. He doesn’t know what He is doing. He has got to grow up and learn like the rest of us how to relate
to other people.}

^{Is the Bible story of the flood where God wiped out all but 8
human beings a myth?}

^{Do you feel that God did that or is the writer just telling us
that for some reason?}

^{Many of these questions are yes or no questions. Can or will
you answer them?}

^{Genesis 8:3-4 At the end of 150 days, the waters diminished and
the ark landed on Mount Ararat.}

^{Feelings - we sometimes can’t really control; but, behavior,
under the law, we must control. Hurt feelings are understandable. However, murderous behavior is criminal, illegal, and unacceptable.
Did God’s feelings let Him down to do such heinous things to mankind?}

^{Genesis 8:20-21 Noah built an altar and chose one from every
clean animal and clean bird to sacrifice to God. God smelled the sweet odor of burning flesh and said to Himself:
Since man’s desires are evil from the start, never again will I doom the Earth because of him.}

^{Here is absolute evidence that Noah couldn’t have taken
only one pair of animals each aboard the arc. Can’t this God’s desires and behavior be judged evil from
the start? Why are people afraid that this God will end earth due to them. It says right here - He won’t. Don’t
they trust His word?}

^{Mind-set believers usually declare: I don’t want to talk
about the facts. I want to only talk about the way I feel the facts should be. Most clergy set this model.}

^{The Bible is a guidebook that comes across as often in error
but never in doubt.}

^{If apologists can have running commentaries on each Bible chapter,
verse by verse, why can’t we? C. Dennis McKinsey}

^{Later, as we shall see, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, with
whom God covenants, (forms partnerships) practice incest, adultery, and polygamy. They lie, deceive, deal in slavery, and
impregnate their slaves. Suddenly, there are people-a-plenty. Cities and nations are everywhere. For "sins", the Biblical
God punishes innocent humans and has the most flawless animals sacrificed to Him. He murders others by war and disease.}

^{In accordance to the words of the Bible, the God of creation
seems "most intelligent" to be able to make the Solar System, including Earth and its life forms. But considering the very
words that make up the stories, does the Biblical God’s attitudes, characteristics, and deeds show intelligence concerning
His ability to run the business of dealing fairly or successfully with the life forms on Earth?}

^{In the book of Genesis, was this God incapable to get it right
the first time, or, was He sinister? Was this God "evil" by creating, enjoying, and feeding on the pain, horror, and terror.
Was this all for His pleasure? Wasn’t the Biblical God guilty of all the murdering and the sacrifices depicted in these
Old Testament stories?}

^{God, to have the flood that murdered all but a few life forms,
had to be frustrated. He couldn’t control things so like a child with a temper tantrum he destroyed everything.}

^{This is a God who Gods by trial and error? Where does the myth
that God is infallible, omnipotent, all knowing, a competent God come from? Certainly not from these Bible stories. God seems
human, deeply flawed, unsure of what’s happening.}

^{What kind of people like the fact that God drowns His creation
and their babies?}

^{Karen Armstrong: I’m sorry. I can’t see the rainbow
without also seeing the bloated bodies and the animals and the mud. I take away from the story the idea of a developing God.
We start off with an infantile God knocking down His sand castles - a regretful God Who learns maturity and in the process
brutalizes humanity - which then passes on the burden of suffering to other people.}

^{Carol Gilligan, Ph.D., Professor / Psychologist: This is an imperfect
God because God makes the same mistakes, again and again, like people do.}

^{Genesis 9:1-3 God said to Noah and his sons: Be fruitful and
multiply. All the animals, birds and creatures will dread and fear you. Every creature that is alive, I shall give
you to eat.}

^{Genesis 9:21-27 Noah got drunk and was naked. His son Ham saw
him and told his brothers Shem and Japheth. They walked backwards and not looking at naked Noah, covered him. When Noah awoke,
he cursed Canaan (Ham’s son) to be a slave.}

^{Is this the Bible’s first example of a cover-up to protect
one who is in authority? Noah is naked and drunk. Ham sees this and reports it to his brothers. They literally back in, not
looking, and cover-up Noah’s condition and nakedness, as it is written. Believer: Don’t you say anything negative
against God! Ever!}

^{Genesis 9:24-28 Noah woke up from his drunkenness and said: Cursed
be Canaan, the lowest of slaves shall he be to his brothers. Let Canaan be God’s slave. Catholic}

^{Wasn’t Canaan Ham’s son? Wasn’t the
"Land of Canaan" ultimately "The Promised Land"?}

^{Pastor Arnold Murray preaches that Ham "uncovered his father's
nakedness" - which means that Ham had sex and impregnated his own mother and that produced Canaan. Noah cursed Canaan because
he wasn't Noah's son.}

^{Was God’s real agenda: Obey Me, which you can’t,
so, I can bring upon you murder, deception, flood, and sacrifice? Was God a sadist inflicting pain on helpless creatures?}

^{Did He then insist that they brought it upon themselves? Is murder,
theft and deception our nature? If yes, who created our nature? How can you have it both ways?}

^{Can you have a healthy relationship with a God who punishes you
throughout eternity?}

^{One Mennonite lady asked: Why did God create people He could
not love? (Wow!)}

^{Another stated: Many, whom God supported, disappointed Him and
He turned on them.}

^{Noah’s was a bad drinker. When Noah drank, the next day
he had to do two (2) things. He had to come back to pick up his arc, and he had to bring back the arc he took.}

Brilliant, "know-it-all" God created Earth, man in His Own image, and all the animals on Earth.

God put an "evil serpent" in the "crib / garden" of his new, ignorant creation called "man".

Then, before the flood, God found evil and corruption in His new creation of mankind.

Next, "all knowing" God decided to murder, by drowning, every human being and animal life-form on planet Earth - minus just a few of each species.

Brilliant, "know-it-all" God still found evil and corruption in his creation of mankind after the flood. Did "know-it-all God know that evil would survive the flood?

Instead of killing the whole world again, all at once, God imposes on human individuals war, plagues, sickness and usually a painful death.

Then, after death, God gives all the human souls, He does not want to grovel, worship and serve Him, Eternal Torment.

^{Pastor Arnold Murray
teaches the Bible, chapter and verse, on television. Here are some of his, out of the mainstream, answers to questions written
in:}

^{Murray: Cain was not Adam’s son. Cain resulted from
Eve having sexual relations with Satan, the serpent.}

^{Some preaching can certainly qualify as strange. Note: This is
not what the Bible says in Genesis 4:1. Satan is not mentioned. Adam knew his wife and made her pregnant. GWD}

^{Pastor Murray? If Abel was good seed and Cain was bad seed, doesn’t
that eliminate the possibility for Cain and Abel to be twins from the serpent’s (Satan’s) seed?}

^{Murray: Ham’s sin was Ham had sex with Noah’s
wife, his mother. That is what Noah cursed Ham for.}

^{Pastor Murray points out in the English written Genesis to support
his claim:}

^{Leviticus 18:8 The nakedness of your father or mother you
shall not uncover. KJV}

^{Leviticus 20:11 The man who lies with his father’s wife
uncovers his father’s nakedness. KJV}

^{Another related question - Rusty from California: Please explain
the curse of Ham?}

^{Murray: You’ve been listening to preachers, because there
was no curse put upon Ham and you’re mistaken. In Genesis 9, the curse was placed upon Canaan, not Ham,
by Noah because Canaan was not Noah’s child. Ham uncovered the nakedness of his father which means according
to Lev 20:11: Ham sexually seduced Noah’s wife (his mother). Canaan wasn’t Noah’s son, but Ham’s.
Noah didn’t want to face Ham and drove him away and said he would be a servant to others. Some preachers amaze me. An
act of intercourse changed his color? That’s the height of ignorance. My black brothers (Murray is white) are many times
told they are part of this curse and that’s also idiocy and a lie. God created that race on the 6th day, He liked it.
It was good. He created all races on the 6th day. Then, He created Adam because on the 8th day because He didn’t
have a tender of the garden. But, there wasn’t a curse on Ham and it’s the traditions of men that make you ask
the question and don’t feel bad. But, may all preachers that teach it feel bad and do their homework before they teach.}

^{Murray: There was a first Earth age and people
(men only) before the age of Adam.}

^{Does that explain the millions of years that science claims
before Biblical events?}

^{Murray states that Genesis supports, in the original manuscripts,
that the Earth is millions of years old. He insists that there was a 1st Earth age prior to the human beings created on the
6th day of creation, long before the popular story of Adam and Eve. Murray states that Adam and Eve were specifically created
on the 8th day so to tend God’s garden and to provide a womb / blood-lineage for His pre-destined plan of Jesus Christ.
Pastor Murray, just how can there be a 1st Earth age prior to creation?}

^{Genesis 10:5 The descendants of Japheth later spread to maritime
nations, each with its own language.}

^{Genesis 11:6-7 God said: If the whole world speaks the same language,
they will be able to do whatever they want to. Let us go down and confuse their language so they will not be
able to do what they want to do.}

^{Isn’t it generally your enemy, your adversary, your competition
who stops you from doing what you want to do? Don’t we prevent our food animals from doing what they want to do so we
can better control an orderly killing and consuming of them? Who is shown here to really be mankind’s adversary?}

^{War / competition: A desire, agenda and a mind-set to prevent
others from doing to you exactly what you willfully intend and are trying to do to them.}

^{Genesis 11:31 Terah (Abraham’s father) establishes that
Sarah is (only) his daughter-in-law.}

^{Genesis 20:12 Abraham states: She (Sarah) is in truth
my sister, but, only my father’s daughter, not my mothers, and so, she became my wife.}

^{BN: Sarah was indeed his relative based on the Hurrian
custom of wife-sister marriage.}

Leviticus 20:17 If a man takes (sexually consumates marriage) with his sister, even a half-sister, who is the daughter of his father or mother, they will be cut off from their people. Since he committed incest... he shall bear his guilt. Torah

What? Abraham, the father of the Judeo-Christian-Islamic religions is guilty of "incest" which God forbid in Leviticus 20:17?

^{How
many conflicts, debates and arguments does this important contradiction expose?}

^{What about Abraham's character, his integrity, courage,
his having incest with his half-sister? What traits does the father and origin of the Hebrew race, and the Jewish, Islam
and Christianity religions show here? What a model!}

^{The Bible introduces the origin, description, documentation of
deeds and the essence of the God Christians worship. Why is it that most Christians don't want to know many selected Bible
C&Vs that describe their God? The Biblical God is their God - isn't It? They do believer all of the Bible's C&Vs -
don't they?}

^{Genesis 12:1-3 God said to Abram: I will make you a great nation,
make your name great. I will curse those who curse you. Catholic (Isn’t cursing somebody considered evil?)}

^{Genesis 12:12-20 Abram (man of greatness) said to
his wife, Sarai (princess): You are so beautiful we will tell The Pharaoh that you are my sister so they won’t
kill me. Pharaoh took Sarai and paid Abram flocks and wealth. God struck Pharaoh’s people with disease and death
because of Sarai. When he found out she was Abram’s wife, Pharaoh asked Abram why he did that to him? Then, he forgave
them both and sent them along their way with all the wealth.}

^{Genesis 12:19 Pharaoh asked Abraham: Why did you say: She is
my sister, so that I (Pharaoh) took her (Sarah) for my wife? Catholic}

^Un^{like the KJV and the Torah, this Catholic version states: I took her for my wife.}

^{In law, a marriage is not a marriage and a wife is not a wife
unless consummated by sex.}

^{Oh, what to believe! What would a fundamentalist say? Did Pharaoh
have sex with Sarah?}

^{Was Abraham our first pimp? Do you think Abe and Sarah would
ever try this again?}

^{Genesis 13:5-6 Lot, Abram’s nephew, and Abram grew so
rich, they could not live together, their herds were so large.}

^{Genesis 13:12-13 Lot moved near Sodom and Gomorra. The inhabitants
of which were wicked in God’s eyes.}

^{Genesis 14:8-16 There was a battle with 4 kings against 5 kings.
The victors seized the spoils of Sodom and Gomorra and took Lot with them. Abram took 318 of his own people and defeated them
at night. He recovered Lot and all the possessions.}

^{Genesis 15:13-14 God said to Abram: Your descendants shall
be aliens in the lands not their own where they will be slaves oppressed for 400 years. But, I will bring judgment upon the
nation they serve and in the end, they will depart (Egypt?) with great wealth.}

^{Contradiction? In Mark 10:25 Jesus said: Its easier for a camel
go through the eye of a needle than it is for a rich man to enter Heaven?}

^{So, what is the real message concerning wealth? Something is
not consistent here.}

^{Genesis 16:1 Sarai nags Abram about being childless and gave
Abram her hand maiden, Hagar, for sex and children. Hagar conceived a son.}

^{Genesis 16:4-10 Abram had intercourse with Hagar, the
Egyptian, and she became pregnant.}

^{Hagar looked with contempt on her mistress Sarai, so Sarai abused
her and she left. An angel of God said to Hagar: Go back to your mistress and submit yourself to her abusive treatment.
(What?) God will make you many descendants. Catholic}

^{How can an unchanging God possibly approve of this? Is adultery
conditional, by consent?}

^{Doesn’t God also show virtue in assault, abuse?
Aren’t prisons full of righteous, God-like wife abusers and child beaters? Today, more women are murdered in the United
States of America by domestic violence than by any other single means. (Internet news)}

^{Azizah Y. Al-Hibri Ph.D.; Law professor, Islamic: One commentary
says: Sarah was so mad at Hagar because of Abraham’s attention that she decided to mutilate her in some way to
make her less interesting. And, that’s how female circumcision started.}

^{Whoa! What? Really? Sarah! That’s despicable! Sarah, are
you really the mother of two main religions? Is mutilating a woman’s sex organs part of your Judeo-Christian ethic?
If so, Sarah, shame on you - big time! Abraham and Hagar started the Islamic religion. Maybe, that is why The Koran has a
more detailed interest in her story.}

^{Genesis 16:11-12 God tells Hagar: You are pregnant with a son
you will name Ishmael. He will be a wild ass of a man; his hand against everyone and everyone’s hand against him.}

^{Genesis 17:4-6 God said: You will no longer be called Abram
(man of greatness), but Abraham (father of nations).}

^{Do you recall Genesis 20:12? God’s "holy-man" and his wife
are half-brother and half-sister by the same father and different mothers.}

^{Genesis 17:8 God said to Abraham: I will give to you and your
descendants the whole land of Canaan as a permanent possession. Catholic}

^{Genesis 18:11-12 Sarah, (89) who no longer has her period, is
told by God she will conceive. She says: I’m old, my husband is old (99). Am I still to have sexual pleasure?
Catholic}

^{Whew! Change the rating of this book! Actually, after
Sarah died, about 37 years later, our old stud, Abraham, had 6 more sons with Keturah (Genesis 25 ) and
more kids with some concubines. This God’s holy hero just does not fit today’s model of virtue, does he?}

^{Genesis 18:13-15 God said to Abraham: Why did Sarah laugh? Sarah
said: I didn’t laugh.}

^{Genesis 18:17 God wonders if He should hide from Abraham what
He is about to do.}

^{Genesis 18:25 Abraham asked God about the destruction of Sodom
and Gomorra: Far be it from You to do such a thing, to make the innocent die with the guilty? Should not the judge of all
the world act with justice?}

^{Nah - God destroys them anyway. Did Abraham question the morality,
fairness, and decency of God, and live? Did Abraham, like Moses did twice in Exodus 32:11-14 and Numbers 14:13-20, attempt
to teach God morality?}

^{Genesis 19:5-26 Two human looking Angels arrive at Lot’s
house. He lets them in, washes their feet, feeds them and prepares for bed. The entire townspeople come to his door and tells
Lot to bring the two men out so they can have sex with them. Lot said to take his two daughters instead, that they have never
had sex with a man. Do what you want to do with them; but, don’t do anything to these men. They threatened to have sex
with Lot too. The two Angels struck the mob men with a blinding light and told Lot to take his wife and daughters away for
they were about to destroy this place. Lot also warned his two proposed sons-in-law, but they thought he was joking. Lot took
his wife and two virgin daughters, and with warnings not to look back, they fled. God destroyed the cities and all the people,
even the innocent children. When the killing started, the noise and fire was so great that Lot’s wife turned to look
at the carnage and was turned into a pillar of salt.}

^{Genesis 19:30-36 Lot went up from the city of Tzoar. Since
Lot was afraid to remain there, he decided to live in a cave, alone, with his two virgin daughters. They got him drunk, had
sex with him and he got them both pregnant.}

^{Weren’t these the only 3 people God spared from the destruction
of Sodom? Didn’t God let them survive because He deemed them to be righteous? Is one who has sex with and impregnates
both of his daughters righteous? Where is any tempting Devil during this scenario? Even during the "original sin", no Satan
is ever mentioned. According to His track Own record, this God does it all. So, does any Satan exist? Could religion
be but fabrications and myths engineered by the egos of power-hungry men? Like God, don’t egocentric and power-hungry
men expect to be obeyed and served by dutiful slaves?}

^{Bill Moyers: Lot offers his daughters to strangers. God makes
judgment on Sodom and Gomorrah but not on Lot. Throughout Genesis, God is the father, the patriarch of a dysfunctional family.}

^{In Genesis 20 Abraham and Sarah, again, pass themselves off to
King Abimelech as brother and sister. The same, pimp and hook, con-job happens again. The King catches the con in time, yet,
he pays off Abraham with herds, gold, and land. God’s wrath punishes the King by making him impotent to stop his bloodline.
Abraham interceded and God changed His mind and restored sexual health to the King so that his maid-servants and wives could
bear children.}

^{Genesis 20:12 Abraham said: She (Sarah) is in truth my
sister, but only my father’s daughter, not my mother’s.}

^{Exhibit E: Incest is documented! Incest is in truth
a fact or Abraham is in truth a liar.}

^{Didn’t Abraham sell his wife into a harem by pretending
she was his sister? If Abraham has sex with his half-sister Sarah, doesn’t that make their relationship incest? Doesn’t
this very same Biblical God condemn incest in Leviticus 20:17? Didn’t Abraham trick Pharaoh and King Abimelech
and in both cases get paid off? Did these ends justify God’s means? Did Sarah sacrifice herself for her half-brother
/ husband? Or, did Sarah have her own agenda to get pregnant, to help Abraham become a father? If Sarah had become pregnant
by Pharaoh, could she had possibly become the Queen of Egypt? What was God’s plan? How would you explain this documented
incest and pimping to your sons and daughters?}

^{Didn’t God / Abraham teach us: If you "sell" your wife
you will make a lot of profit?}

^{Another minor detail: Back in Genesis 18:11-12 Sarah was 89 years
old and "dried up". The Pharaoh and King Abimelech must share a "horny for old ladies" syndrome. Occasionally, Bible
stories are totally absurd.}

^{Pastor Eugene Rivers III: What would have happened to Abraham
if he had not lied about what his relationship was with the woman? Listen, I can imagine lying. Here’s a black dude
in the inner city. He’s got a white wife. A couple Egyptian brothers roll up on the brother with a white wife. Now this
guy’s not a complete fool "Yo baby, we work together, right? Pretend you’re my boss. You’re not my wife
right, because if you’re my wife, you may be a widow by the end of the evening.}

^{Genesis 21:10 Sarah demanded Abraham drive Hagar and her son
out. No slave is going to share the inheritance with my son, (Isaac).}

^{Genesis 21:20-21 God was with Hagar and her son. Hagar got a
wife for Ishmael, in Egypt.}

^{Hagar was Sarah's slave girl. When Sarah was beyond menopause,
she had her husband Abraham have sex with Hagar so she could have a child by her. Sarah "abused" Hagar by female-circumcision.
The Koran provides more detail of Hagar's abuse than does the Judeo-Christian Bible. This link explains much about Hagar:}

^{Ishmael means "God has heard". Wasn’t Ishmael chosen, by
God, too? Through Ishmael, wasn’t the Islamic religion founded on Abraham, a Hebrew father?}

^{Azizah Y. Al-Hibri: In the Qur’an, Abraham and Ishmael
build the first house of God on earth, the Ka’ba, that is in Mecca.}

^{Genesis 22:1-2 God told Abraham to sacrifice his son as a burnt
offering. KJV}

^{Genesis 22:11-15 The Lord’s messenger calls it off then
seems to turn into God himself.}

^{An Angel called it off}^{when it was obvious that Abraham would sacrifice murder, slice up and cook Isaac in about 2050 BC? Never
again does the Biblical God or any of His angels call human sacrifice off, even with Jesus. So, was this one God, Himself
or an angel? How could a subordinate messenger / Angel countermand God’s order? If God appears as the angel wasn’t
that deceptive? God has His reasons, you say? Every criminal has motives (reasons) for his agenda.}

^{Genesis 22:4 Abraham said to his servants: Stay here. We (Isaac
and I) are going up to worship. We (Isaac and I) will be back.}

^{If Abraham knew that we (Isaac and I) would be back, what’s
going on here? If Abraham planned to sacrifice Isaac, then Abraham lied to his servants, again, making him a liar.}

^{Again, in Genesis 22:1-2, God spoke to Abraham ordering him to
sacrifice Isaac. But then in Genesis 22:15-18 I swear by myself, declares the Lord, that because you acted as you did in not
withholding from Me your beloved son I will bless you, all because you obeyed My command.}

^{Catholic Recap: God promises Abraham, age 75, to be the father
of nations. When Sarah is 76 she sends Abraham (then 86) in to have sex with Hagar, her Egyptian handmaid. Abraham consents
to adultery which produces Ishmael - and about 4,000 years of war in the middle east. Sarah hears God say that she will have
a child and laughs at God’s words. She lies to God by denying it. Still, when Abraham is 100, God rewards Sarah, 90,
for her role in His plan and gives her Isaac (laughter) whom Abraham almost sacrifices. After Isaac’s "called-off" sacrifice,
never again is there any Biblical talk between Isaac (or Sarah) and Abraham. Some parents are horrified by this story of God’s
child abuse. What is a dysfunctional family or a dysfunctional god? The Koran has scenarios whereby Abraham and Ishmael
later built monuments together in Mecca.}

^{If God said to you: Only I deserve your love. Show me you love
Me more than your son. If God then wanted you to personally sacrifice your son, would you do it? If yes, are you nuts? How
about sending your child off to kill or die in some political struggle on behalf of powers outside of the United States? Does
that murdering God-like tradition turn you on?}

^{Bill Moyers: That story (Abraham’s sacrifice) presupposes
that the nature of God requires something to suffer in order for God to be satisfied.}

^{What is child abuse? Isn’t one’s putting a
knife to his child’s throat child abuse? Then, why wouldn’t it be if Abraham and God were doing it? Bad, ugly,
criminal and heinous deeds are what they are regardless of Who does them.}

^{James 2:21 Was not Abraham justified by works when he offered
to sacrifice Isaac?}

^{When Sarah let Abraham have sex with Hagar, did God reward
her by giving her Isaac? If you were asked this question by your own kids, how would you answer it?}

^{For Hagar, the slave girl, wasn’t having sex with Abraham
a great career move? What does this model teach? Was Hagar’s not resisting having sex with Abraham due to his wife’s
suggestion? What will you tell your daughter concerning Abraham and Hagar?}

^{Genesis 24:9 So the servant put his hand under the thigh of his
master and swore to him in this undertaking.}

^{In those days, one man grabbed another man’s testicles
(balls) and sacredly swore he would do something; thus comes the words testify, and sacred testimony.}

^{What could be better proof or evidence of this God’s attitude
concerning slavery?}

^{Joel 3:8 God said: I will sell your sons and you daughters into
the hands of the children of Judah and they will sell them to the Sabeans… KJV}

^{Genesis 24:34-66 A man said: I am a servant of Abraham, a wealthy
man who has given everything he has to his son. I am here to get a wife for my master’s son. Laban replied: Here is
Rebekah (Laban’s own sister) ready for you. The man gave gold, silver and clothes for Rebekah and gave costly presents
to her brother (Laban) and to her mother. They said: Let’s see what Rebekah says. Rebekah said: "I do". Rebekah later
saw Isaac and asked: Is that my master? "Yes". She covered her face with her veil. Isaac (age 40) took her into his recently
departed mother Sarah’s tent and "married" her. Torah}

^{They did "the sacred wild-thing", because without their consummating
the sex act, there legally was no marriage.}

^{Genesis 25:1-7 After Sarah died, Abraham married another wife,
Keturah and had 6 more sons.}

^{One of Abraham's sons with Keturah was Midian. This is important
because later Moses' wife was a Midianite but Moses waged war on the Midianites heavily in Numbers 25 & 31.}

^{He had more sons by concubines that he gave grants to, then sent
them away from Isaac.}

^{Abraham died at 175 years of age. It was emphasized that Abraham
was too old for his first kid, Ishmael. Many years later he has another wife, more kids and other concubines.}