Category: Genesis
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Richard Dawkins calls this a ‘disgraceful story’
Imagine if someone told you that a deity they worshipped wanted them to sacrifice their child. You’d get social services involved, pronto. So what are we to make of the Genesis story of Abraham preparing to sacrifice the son he loved, Isaac? In The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins argued that this “disgraceful story” is an…
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The lost verse from ‘Hark! The herald angels sing’
Hark! The herald angels sing is one of the most popular Christmas carols, and justifiably so. The words, originally drafted by Charles Wesley but improved upon by his friend George Whitefield, celebrates the purpose of Jesus’s birth in Bethlehem. It begins with the distinctive line: to ‘hark’, meaning listen, because angels, doing the work of…