Proving

ABRAHAM, whose love of and loyalty to the lord he thought intact, seemed surprised when the voice of the lord indicated that his faithfulness was in doubt. God himself, or herself, or itself evidently was not quite so sure about the patriarch's fidelity. maybe there was some other, lesser god out there, lurking, luring Abraham off the true path. The quickest solution might have been, would seem to have been, for god almighty to merely take a peek into the heart, mind, and soul of the man, and see for his himself where his true loyalty lay. But, on the other hand, that would have made the story less interesting; where is the drama in mere divine introspection? So god drummed up a test. Obtain your son Isaac, place him on a slab of an alter, and hack him to pieces, as a sacrifice to me, an indicator that you are willing to dispose of your own son as a show of love of me. The rest, as they say, is history. Abraham raised the ax o high, and, about to swing it, was interrupted yet again, by a god whose insecurity was quenched, sans bloodshed. He settled for a sheep in a nearby bush. This behavior, according to one way of looking at it, hardly suits an almighty deity, the creator of the universe, much less an ill mannered, petulant, spoiled third grader. A grade schooler might be expected to treat a tad pole with more respect..flash forward a few decades, and we find the lord, giving the law to his chosen people, with instructions that nobody is allowed to look at it, that it is to be kept in a very ornate box, made t specifications. One might think that the world's most important document would be copied and distributed widely, but not so. Anyone who attempts to look inside the box is in peril. Somebody dies, and immediately fifty thousand and seventy Philistines, all innocent, are destroyed. Welcome to the wild and wacky world of old testament theology, upon which today's evenaglicas base so much of their spiritual and political life. Little wonder that eighty percent of them vote for Trump. he makes about as much sense as the pathological deity they call "God".