Genesis 12:12-19 Abraham told his wife (half-sister) Sarah to lie. As a result Pharaoh said: Why did you say she is my sister so that I took her for my wife? Catholic
Abraham, God's hero, tells his wife / half-sister Sarah to lie.
Pharaoh said he took Sarah for his wife. Did Pharaoh have sex with Sarah? Idealistic believers would automatically insist no.
Unlike the KJV, the Catholic version states: I took her for my wife.
Under Hebrew law, a marriage is not a marriage and a wife is not legally a wife unless the union is consummated by sex. Oh, what to believe! Did Pharaoh have sex with Sarah? What would a fundamentalist say?
Genesis 13:2 Now, Abram was rich in livestock, silver and gold.
Was Abraham our first pimp? Did old, "Honest Abe" gain this wealth by being a con-man and a pimp for his wife? Do you think Abraham and Sarah would ever try this pimp-agenda again?
Genesis 16:1-10 Sarah gave Abraham Hagar, her handmaid, for sex and children. Abraham had intercourse with Hagar who conceived Abraham’s son, Ishmael.
Abraham, Hagar, And Sarah - The Bible's First Threesome?
So Abraham, the old swinger, had sex with Sarah's servant, Hagar an Egyptian, with Sarah's consent?
Pregnant Hagar looked with contempt on her mistress Sarah, so Sarah abused her and she left. An Angel of God said to Hagar: Go back to your mistress and submit yourself to her abusive treatment. Catholic
How can an unchanging, good God possibly approve of this? Is adultery conditional, by consent? Did Sarah, the mother of the Judeo-Christian religion abuse Hagar by female circumcision? How could a "good / loving / sensitive / moral" God send Hagar back for more abuse?
Does God also show virtue by condoning assault / abuse? Aren’t prisons full of righteous, God-like, Christian wife-abusers and child-beaters? Today, more women are murdered in the United States of America by domestic violence than by any other single means. (Internet news)
Azizah Y. Al-Hibri Ph.D.; Law professor, Islamic: One commentary says: Sarah was so mad at Hagar because of Abraham’s attention that she decided to mutilate her in some way to make her less interesting. And, that’s how female-circumcision started.
Whoa! What? Really? Sarah! That’s despicable! Sarah, are you really the mother of two main religions? Is mutilating a woman’s sex organs part of your Judeo-Christian ethic? If so, Sarah, shame on you - big time! Abraham and Hagar started the Islamic religion by having Ishmael.
Genesis 18:22 The Lord remained standing before Abraham.
Really? Face to face?
Exodus 33:20 God states: No man sees My face and lives.
Can this possibly qualify as a Bible contradiction?
Genesis 18:25 Abraham asked God about the destruction of Sodom and Gomorra: Far be it from You to do such a thing, to make the innocent die with the guilty? Should not the judge of all the world act with justice?
Nah - God destroys them anyway. Did Abraham question the morality, fairness, and decency of God, and live? Did Abraham, like Moses did twice in Exodus 32:11-14 and Numbers 14:13-20, attempt to teach God morality?
Abraham and Moses both questioned God fairness and morality and seeing God lacking, actually tried to make corrections.
In Genesis 20 Abraham and Sarah, again, pass themselves off to King Abimelech as brother and sister. The same, pimp and hook, con-job happens again. The King catches the con in time, yet, he pays off Abraham with herds, gold, and land.
Shame on both Abraham and Sarah, the father and mother of the Judeo-Christian religions!
Genesis 20:12 Abraham had married his half-sister (Sarah). They had the same father and different mothers.
Incest! Many of God's main heroes: Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and his 12 tribes / sons, and later, Moses are products of or participated in incest. If the Biblical God was in control and incest was His preferred agenda to produce His heroes, how can incest be illegal today - if God can't be wrong?
Genesis 21:14 Abraham sent Hagar and Ishmael away.
Hagar & Ishmael
Does this also indicate that Abraham was a "dead-beat" dad?
Genesis 22:1-12 Abraham was stopped just short of murdering his own son, Isaac - because God ordered it.
What's Going On, Dad? God, Wants Me To Sacrifice You. God, I'm really Pissed!
Alright - It's All For Your Pleasure. This Is Going To Hurt. What Do You Want?
Are You Countermanding God's Order? But I Was On A Roll! Sorry About That - Don't Tell Your Mother.
God Stopped Abraham's Child Sacrifice - Accepted Jephthah's Child Sacrifice -
And Did Sacrifice His Own Son, Jesus Christ
Catholic Recap: God promises Abraham, age 75, to be the father of nations. When Sarah is 76 she sends Hagar, her Egyptian handmaid, in to have sex with Abraham, then 86. Abraham consents to adultery which produces Ishmael - and about 4,000 years of war in the Middle East. Sarah hears God say that she will have a child and laughs at God’s words. She lies to God by denying it. Still, when Abraham is 100, God rewards Sarah, 90, for her role in His plan and gives her Isaac (which means laughter) whom Abraham almost sacrifices. After Isaac’s "called-off" sacrifice, never again is there any Biblical conversation between Isaac (or Sarah) and Abraham.
Some parents are horrified by this story of God’s child abuse. What is a dysfunctional family or a dysfunctional god? The Koran has scenarios whereby Abraham and Ishmael later built monuments together in Mecca.
Genesis 24:35 God gave Abraham male and female slaves.
Isn't this Chapter and Verse evidence that the "good" Biblical God condones slavery? How can it not be? As long as one Bible exists, these controversial C&Vs won't go away.
Genesis 25:1-6 After Sarah died, Abraham married Keturah and had 6 more sons. He had some other kids by some concubines.
Abraham, the old stud, died at 175 years of age.
