Where does God telling Abraham to kill his son rank as most fukked up things in the Bible

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It was a test of faith. Obviously God wasn't going to let him sacrifice his son as he provided the ram for him instead and God forbade such a practice later on in the Bible

Deuteronomy 18:10 ESV / 300 helpful votes
There shall not be found among you anyone who burns his son or his daughter as an offering, anyone who practices divination or tells fortunes or interprets omens, or a sorcerer

2 Kings 21:6 ESV / 146 helpful votes
And he burned his son as an offering and used fortune-telling and omens and dealt with mediums and with necromancers. He did much evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger.

Deuteronomy 12:31 ESV / 137 helpful votes
You shall not worship the Lord your God in that way, for every abominable thing that the Lord hates they have done for their gods, for they even burn their sons and their daughters in the fire to their gods.

But then God demands his son’s death in exchange for forgiveness :heh:

Worst thing God did in the Bible is a global genocide in Noah’s flood. Imagine the levels of evil it takes to wipe off all life on a planet.
 

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God,Yahweh,the Most High,whatever you call Him, isn't who you think he was. He personally killed thousands and cheerfully ordered his followers to do the same. In a sane world he'd have been in the secure wing of a mental treatment facility. The term,Yawheh may likely have been a title like doc or captain and it seems there were several. Looking closely at his attributes he wasn't truly human-he was extremely tall and wore a veil.
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“The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all of fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully."
 
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