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Originally posted by AliCat:
Thanks, Fljotsdale!
If Jephtha made a promise to God and then carried that out, wouldn't that take precedence over the Jewish law? What about Abraham and Isaac?
AliCat 
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Jephtha's promise:
No! Can you imagine being happy about someone carrying out a promise to YOU that turned out to result in something utterly alien to your beliefs?
Look at this scenario:
A friend of yours has promised to do anything you want if give him your favourite CD as a gift. You ask him to get back for you a sound system you had LOANED to someone else, who then refused to return it. Your friend promises he will get it, no matter what. In trying to get it for you, your friend discoveres that he can only get it by killing the person who has it.
Do you want him to keep his promise?
Abraham and Isaac is a different kettle of fish altogether.
1. God DIRECTLY ASKED Abraham to do it.
2. God had no intention that the sacrifice would actually happen.
3. It was symbolic of the sacrifice of Jesus by god.
4. The Law given to Moses was not yet written.
5. Abraham would have known that even if Isaac actually died, god would have to raise him in order for the promises to be fulfilled.
Read Genesis 17:3-7,15,16; Gen 19,21; Gen 18:18,19; Gen 22:1-18; Hebrews 11:17-19
I don't know if you noticed, but that account also shows that god is not omniscient - all-knowing. He did not know what Abraham would do.
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