Does God require immoral acts?
4. Then I explored the difficulty of the Abraham passage, how it leads us to wonder whether God requires something immoral here. I read James 1:13-18, which says God doesn’t tempt people with evil. Telling someone to murder seems an aweful lot like telling someone to do evil. 5. I talked a little about 2 Samuel 24, where God tells David to number Israel in a sting operation, then sends a plague on Israel for doing it. But I went on to show that 1 Chronicles 21 says that it was actually Satan that told David to do this. I did my usual thing on the lights of revelation coming on between Samuel and Chronicles with regard to the Satan. I mentioned Job and how from Job’s perspective, he never finds out that in fact he was just a pawn in a wager between God and the Satan. By the way, this theology in my opinion debunks the all too common idea that Job is the earliest book of the OT written. I think the idea is usually that the story of Job must predate Israel since there’s no awareness of Is
