#but i just can't stop thinking about the sorrow in abraham's eyes | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

100percentdirtball · 2 years

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maybe it’s because i’m a faggy little writer and not a woman of faith, but i really really thought the point of the story about isaac and abraham was just to make you really live inside a man who spent three days walking with his son knowing that at the end he would die, and waking up every morning for the rest of his life and looking his son in the eyes and knowing that he was willing to kill him. how is this not a horror story.

#like i am being told that maybe the point of the story is #to have faith in god because god has a plan for you #and in his love for you would not induce you to do murder #but i just can't stop thinking about the sorrow in abraham's eyes #how the angel appearing must not have come as any relief #how when the angel says do not lay a hand on your son how abraham must still have felt himself damned #since he knew himself now to be a man that would lie to his son #tell him god will provide a lamb but knowing that god already has #that god has given abraham but a single lamb #an only son who he loved so dearly #i cant stop thinking about the walk back down the mountain towards the land that suddenly the lord has promised to abraham and to isaac #and how cold comfort it must have been

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