Kierkegaard and the Leap of Faith

What went through Abraham’s mind when God called him to sacrifice his beloved son Isaac? In this brief clip, R.C. Sproul considers how the existentialist philosopher Søren Kierkegaard saw in this crisis an illustration of the Christian’s life of faith.

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[rochellebibit]

When God told Abraham to go against the law. The temporary suspension of the ethical is a leap of faith. Amen! Thank you Father🙏🙏🙏

[jessyjonas]

" And Abraham said ' my Son, God will provide for Himself the lamb for a burnt offering. So the two of them went together." Genesis 22: 8✝️

When we trust in Jehovah Jireh
our provider this is Godly faith

[vanlalhruaitluangazote]

I just read this topic a couple of minutes ago on the internet, and then I saw this notification.
I don't know why, but it feels amazing!

[geraldarcuri]

I believe it's the teleological suspension of the ethical. Which is a very different emphasis than the "temporary" suspension of the ethical. If the ethical were to be suspended at all, it would have to be for a greater purpose, goal, or "telos". I would argue that this is not just a leap of blind faith. There must be more... much more, before a person of faith grasps the enormity of obeying God in the face of apparent contradictions between God's commands and His revealed character. Abraham "knew" God. He knew that God would provide a solution to the paradox that He himself had placed before Abraham. He trusted that God would indeed provided a substitute for the sacrifice of Isaac. Which He did.

[jessyjonas]

" By faith Abraham when He was tested offered up Isaac and he who had received the promises offered up his only begotten son ....concluding that God was able to raise him up even from the dead from which he also received him in a figurative sense."
This is Godly faith

Existentialism is a humanism

[johnvandommelen]

Yes indeed, God did spare Abraham's son, but did not spare His Son....human speaking, Isaac caught a break (the ram), but not the Son of God...no break for Him, sacrificed as a human substitute for our sin, giving us a gracious second chance to be saved, but only in believing and obeying His Son, our Savior.

[jessyjonas]

Existentialism is a humanism
If (Holy Scriptures never said it) Abraham tossed and turned the night before it would have been
Because of how sure He was
THAT GOD HAD SPOKEN

[juliemauger]

Abraham knew God, and he knew that God did not condone child sacrifice. And yet God gave him this dreadful command, to sacrifice his son. I think it's highly likely that Abraham rose early on that day to pray earnestly to God. One thing Abraham had was faith: the Bible tells us that Abraham's faith was credited to him as righteousness. And he had faith that God would not go against His character. If you read the Biblical narrative carefully, when Abraham gets to the bottom of the mountain where he has been told to sacrifice Isaac, you will notice that he told the servants that had accompanied them on their journey to wait there, and that "WE WILL RETURN ." Who's we? Abraham and Isaac. Abraham knew the God he had put his faith in, & knew He would somehow intervene and that he would not be sacrificing his son that day. He knew that one of the attributes of God was that He is Jehovah Jireh, the great provider. Now that is real faith, knowing that God will always provide for us, come what may. And God did not disappoint Abraham, He provided a substitute sacrifice. What a test of faith, and how sobering it is that when it was God's turn to sacrifice His only begotten Son, that we may be saved, God did not intervene to stop Christ's crucifixion. No, God Himself paid the ultimate sacrifice for our sins that we may be saved.

[johnbyington]

The Law had not been given yet in the time of Abraham, but I agree that it is against the Law of God to sacrifice human and or in this case Isaac, Abraham's son of promise.

[jessyjonas]

Existential leap of faith
Is not biblical
Existentialism is a humanism
" Abraham believed God'
The faith of the believer is of
The Holy Spirit
The just live and walk by Godly Saving faith

[AllSven]

Kierkagaard proposed the most disastrous concept known to man - truth is subjective.

[sohux]

There is no excuse for even a temporary suspension of the ethical. There either is ethics and Abraham failed, or more likely, there is no ethics.