Humans don't like confusion, but God waits for us in the mess.(Brief Article)

National Catholic Reporter | March 17, 2000| | Copyright

"God put Abraham to the test." Genesis 22:1

Most of us, I daresay, are not very comfortable with mess, with unanswered questions or with unresolved conflicts. We'd like things to be clear and we'd like to be able to understand things -- even, and perhaps especially, difficult and discomforting things. For my money, the story of Abraham and Isaac is one of the more disturbing passages in all of scripture, because it brings up all kinds of messy and uncomfortable questions. What the story says about Abraham is bad enough, considering that we'd imprison a man who killed ...

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