What is a political issue that you want to understand the opposite viewpoint more?

[Arminillo]

VGPolyglot said:

Dulfite said:

God often does things not to verify HIS own knowledge of us, but it helps us humans realizehow much devotion we have or lack towards God.

So, why something so extreme then? He wants humans to realize they have devotion to God because they're willing to kill their own child merely because he says so?

I'm not sure if you know this, but Abraham is a pretty important dude, he ended up being key to three of the major religions of the world (Judaism: A New Hope, Christianity: Satan Strikes Back, and Islam: Return of the Prophet), I think the fact that Abraham was willing to do something like that shows that he was in fact THE guy you'd want to have being father of nations. Also, God seems to be a big parable guy. In the Old Testament, he pulled tons of stuff like that, symbolizing something or another. Then he sent Jesus who just told parables rather than act them out.