Abraham, Isaac & School Reopening
The Lord said to Abraham, offer your son up in sacrifice for a Principle, for something that is greater in value than yourself or your family.
Your Faith in Me.
The modern God, the Economy, says to us now, offer your children up in sacrifice for a Principle, for something that is greater in value than yourself or your family.
Your Faith in Me.
The Abraham & Son story is the ultimate Test-of-Faith lesson in Judaism, Christianity and Islam. We can speculate about what it meant at the time, how people three thousand years ago may have understood it or interpreted it.
I think it influences us today. Its message is part of our deep conditioning. Stories like this are told and retold and influence how we think about important decisions that we all have to make.
Let’s look at how the story works by asking, what, to you, is the opposite of Faith?
Think about it. Try to express it in one word … OK, what is your word for the opposite of Faith?
Is it Doubt, Skepticism, or Non-Belief?
If you are not a religious person, or if you are a very religious person, you probably chose some variant of Uncertainty. You see the kind of Faith that religious people or other ‘true believers’ have as a form of…
