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02/23/2024
Oh, God, you incorrigible goofball!
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JOKE-OGRAPHY:
In this Bible story, God asks Abraham to kill his beloved son as a sacrifice. Abraham is surely mortified, but does as he's told, bringing Isaac to a mountaintop and setting up an altar. However, just as he's about to slaughter his son, a goat appears, and God says Abraham can sacrifice that instead of his son. For Christians, this story is both a test of Abraham's faith in God, as well as a foreshadowing of Jesus's sacrifice on the cross. While mankind deserves death for their sins, a Lamb appears -- Jesus -- and is sacrificed in our stead. While Abraham's son was spared, God's own Son faces death and triumphs. Anywho, this cartoon reimagines the moment God asks Abraham to slaughter his son, in stunning technicolor!
AUTHOR'S NOTE:
'Tis the season, it seems, for yet ANOTHER "Tomics Resurrections," where I've redrawn one of my older comics. Much like most of my original comics, the old one is very desaturated with lots of grays and browns, and while the same essential tone is kept in the new one, I've altered the dialogue to give it a little extra zing. The only part I regret having to change is "burn him alive." It's such a jarring phrase, but it's not quite correct, as God's asking for a "burnt offering," and as the custom goes, a sacrificial burnt offering would be killed before being burned, not burned alive.
So how does the new compare to the old? In this case, the old version is truly ancient (cartoon #29 according to my filing system), which I think makes it about... 10 years old...? That can't be. I still remember writing "2014" on stuff. Oh my gosh... This is a lot to process... I, uh... um... Where was I...? Oh, yeah... "Tomics Resurrection"! Woohoo! Haha...! Yeah, so the funny thing about the old version is that even IT was technically a resurrection, 'cause it was based on a cartoon I drew in a notebook back in college... before Tomics was a thing... in 2012... oy...
Sorry, I have to sit down for a second...
#catholic#christian#jesus#comic#cartoon#catholic memes#jesus memes#christian memes#tomics#bible#abraham#isaac#genesis#genesis 22#sacrifice#i feel as old as abraham right now#tomics comics
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a child’s sacrifice
hannibal 1x01 aperitif | and my father’s love was nothing next to god’s will amatullah bourdon | the sacrifice of isaac caravaggio | jesus takes a smoke break at the last supper @strangebedfellows | the altar george herbert | hannibal 1x03 potage | judges 11:30-31 | the daughter of jephthah edouard bernard debat-ponsan | judges 11:34-35 | sun bleached flies ethel cain
#comparative#religion#sacrifice#judges 11#isaac#jephthah’s daughter#hannibal#abigail hobbs#gjh#garret jacob hobbs#ethel cain#mothercain#photo#personal#genesis 22
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A queer look at the sacrifice of Isaac
content warning: political & religious transphobia, family rejection.
Detail from "Abrahams Opfer" by Adi Holzer Werksverzeichnis.
Genesis 22:1-14 is one of scripture’s most disturbing stories. In it, God seems to command Abraham to sacrifice his son, Isaac.
Abraham exhibits an unquestioning obedience, even to this most cruel command.
If this is a test of faith, did Abraham pass?
…Or did God want Abraham to ask questions, to demand to know how such an atrocity would glorify the Divine?
After all, this is the God whose heart will be won some generations later by Jacob the god-wrestler; who will inspire psalmists to bring all their naked, honest anger and hurt and fear into their worship-songs — as in this Sunday’s Psalm 13: “How long, O LORD? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?”
Let’s look at God’s response once Abraham has done as commanded, taking Isaac up to the mountaintop, tying him to the altar, readying the blade — God now cries out, “STOP! Do not lay your hand on the boy! Don’t do a single thing to him!”
We find that God does not thirst for children’s blood. God does not trade human lives for blessings.
God makes it very clear here: You may not sacrifice your children on the altar of your religion.
How does this relate to the LGBTQIA+ community today?
In their sermon titled "No More Sacrifices," Kate Davoli connects Abraham's belief that God wills his son's death to the treatment of LGBT children in our own era. The rest of this post is drawn from their sermon.
Anti-LGBT preachers and politicians have been offering up our lives as sacrifice for decades now.
They convince parents that their children are doomed to hell if they turn out to be queer. The kind and holy thing to do, they say, is to try to make your child cis and straight — in spite of study after study proving that conversion therapies and lack of acceptance kill.
In spite of a God who says, “Do not lay a hand on the boy! Don’t do a single thing to him!”
If a child persists in being anything but cis and straight, the "Christian" thing to do is disown them, kick them out — sacrifice family ties to a hateful God.
They only preach the first half of the story: God’s command to sacrifice a child — and expect unquestioning obedience from parents.
Some go even further, offering up the suffering of transgender children as a sacrifice for national security:
“For the good of society … transgenderism must be eradicated from public life entirely… National decline is not inevitable…for a moral and religious people.”
— CPAC speaker Michael Knowles, March 2023
The growing wave of anti-trans bills that deny children spirit-saving medical care, attempt to wrest them from supportive parents, and lead to depression and even suicide, is an attempt at cultural purification in the name of God.
“Come,” they are saying, “Let us take your children,
your precious children, whom you love —
they are already doomed to hell, so
we will sacrifice them on the mountain God has shown us
and it will mean prosperity for the Land;
it will turn the nation back around to receive all the wealth and security God promised us.”
That, friends, is blasphemy:
it’s a lie about who God is and what God wants.
God makes known throughout scripture that Their will is abundant life for all, and particularly for the most vulnerable. Anything that harms children — that leaves them feeling broken and unheard, that puts their physical or mental health at risk — is not of God.
Call to action:
What will you do to fight against the sacrifice of these little ones?
How will you ensure that our fellow Christians who counsel “sacrifice,” and who call sinful what God has declared good, are not the only Christians speaking about “what God wants”?
How can you and your faith community show up for transgender children, and the LGBTQIA+ community as a whole?
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I see Peace the way Abraham saw God
I would kill what I love most just to appear worthy of the Eden it promises
But what if this whole time I have been Isaac
And my art is prepared to sacrifice me
Knife raised in the name of glory and praise, an undying faith to the craft
I fear an angel may never come
No, I hope it does not
For how could I be relieved to see a ram burn in my place
Knowing the lengths my ego would go
Just to be admired
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“The Sacrifice of Isaac” by Caravaggio (1603)
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The Connection of Faith, Obedience, and Blessing (Genesis 22:15-18)
While you and I might try and figure out if we really heard God or not, Abraham had a history of talking with God. He knew God’s voice as well as he knew his own.
The angel of the Lord called to Abraham a second time from heaven and said, “By myself I have sworn, says the Lord: Because you have done this, and have not withheld your son, your only son, I will indeed bless you, and I will make your offspring as numerous as the stars of heaven and as the sand that is on the seashore. And your offspring shall possess the gate of their enemies, and by your…
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#abraham#biblical ethics#blessing#faith#genesis#genesis 22#god&039;s voice#god&039;s commands#god&039;s provision#obedience#obey#obeying god#patience#perseverance#spiritual life#trust#trusting god
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meow meow
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Happy Birthday, Asuka! 22 years old now!
12-4-2001
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#Shin Seiki Evangelion#Neon Genesis Evangelion#Ikari Shinji#Asuka Langley Soryu#Sadamoto Yoshiyuki#Evangelion 22
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Day 47
They are like atmospheric optical phenomena to me
#neon genesis evangelion#rei ayanami#kaworu nagisa#especially the ones involving the moon cuz moon motifs#Fly me to the 22 degree moon halo and let me play among the moon corona
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You're allowed to ascend but only if God wants you to, and God can be a bit of an authoritarian bastard
#Thinking about Eve. Incredibly fucked up that she was so harshly punished for being seduced by knowledge but also her defiance gets#credited to a 'man' these days (even though the modern conception of satan is almost certainly not how the authors of the bible intended it#its just such a weird catch 22#and ya know. her name is Eve. the beginning the genesis and the thing she gets to create is the punishment of mankind. original sin.#like yeah she also birthed the first humans but that's not what she's known for. she's known for being tempted into falling and dragging#Adam with her#lmao insane ramblings to put in the tags of homestuck fanart but also yeah it is that deep sometimes ya know#also!!! the bisexual colors were not intended but also I do hc Ara as bi so it works#aradia megido#hs#homestuck#my art#eyestrain#just in case!!
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Genesis 8:22 (NLT) -
As long as the earth remains, there will be planting and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night.”
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I will surely bless you, and I will surely multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and as the sand that is on the seashore.
Genesis 22:17
#bible#scripture#beauty#nature#outdoors#night#sky#stars#milky way#water#reflection#abraham#bible verse#genesis#genesis 22:17
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22 Niang & 33 Niang Figure by beBOX, Mascots for Bilibili
#22 niang#33 niang#figure#bebox#mascot character#mascot#bilibili#nge#neon genesis evangelion#anime figure#anime figures#anime#figures#figurine#figurines
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The Sacrifice Averted
He said, “Do not reach out your hand against the boy, and do not do anything to him; for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me.”
— Genesis 22:12 | New American Standard Bible (NASB)
New American Standard Bible Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation. All rights reserved.
Cross References: Genesis 22:2; Genesis 22:13; Genesis 22:16; Job 1:1; James 2:21-22
#Abraham#Isaac#Lord#sacrifice#averted#faithfulness#proven#fear#reverence#God#Genesis 22:12#Book of Genesis#Old Testament#NASB#New American Standard Bible#The Lockman Foundation
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