Inside Our Delusion

Inside Our Delusion  

 

 

 

Let me speak plainly. God has never required child sacrifice. It has never been His idea. Rather, it has always been humanity’s perversion—a perversion of God’s goodness and a mockery of the events that took place at the cross.

At the cross, the “Word who became flesh” stepped inside our cruel child sacrifice delusion and took that punishing transactional perversion to its conclusion. He set us free from our depraved death devotion.

For 2000 years, we’ve been awakening to this Truth. Strike that. Since the fall, we’ve been awakening to this Greater Love revelation.

Abraham, like so many today, believed the road to God went through the cruel and punishing sacrifice of his son, but God has always been like Jesus. Like an Emmaus Road Jesus, God walked beside Abraham on his road of lack, God’s true nature hidden even as He revealed Himself.

Like Jesus, God engaged with Abraham in the context of his understanding toward one end—to reveal a greater love that would reconcile Abraham to the Truth that sets him free.

On Mount Moriah, like Jesus on a cross, God stepped inside Abraham’s delusion and revealed that He is nothing like the cruel and punishing transactional gods of Abraham’s day, or those of Jesus’ day, or ours today.

God revealed to Abraham, and through him to us, that whether we understand it or not, whether we agree or not, He has always been like Jesus—a measureless love that has been reconciling us to Himself since before the fall…

This article is excerpted from my book, Leaving and Finding Jesus

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