Shots Across the Bow

A second thought

A second thought On the drive back home from the funeral, I had another thought on Christianity, one that I�ve never seen explored before. It occurred to me that the pivotal event in the New Testament, the Crucifixion, is presaged in the Old Testament, when Abraham is asked to sacrifice his only son. God stops Abraham, but carries through on sacrificing his Son. Apparently God won�t ask us to do anything he wouldn�t do Himself.

Update A few friends of non-Catholic-but-still-Christian faith have told me that this comparison is a staple of Sunday school. Which makes me wonder if the Jesuits who taught me were really as brilliant as they said they were.

Or maybe I just slept through that part.

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