Is God Meant to be Involved?

As we learned the mind boggling story of the Akeida, a huge question came up: Is there a system of morality and ethics independent of God, or is morality established only because God said so? This question was truly important to recognize because we learned that Avraham was willing to go everything he believed in to follow the word of God. We already knew that Avraham was a man who represented morality and ethics and Yirat Elokim. According to Soren Kirkegard, the Theologian, if God tells us to do something, we have to do it. Because God is moral and ethical. He wouldn't actually make us go through with such a thing like the Akeida because He knows that it's not right. This proves that morals and ethics stem from God. This was the biggest test to Avraham so far, and we must recognize how important God's decision was. If God was not moral, He might have let Avraham go through with the Akeida, destroying His promise of Zerah. However, we can see that this was not the truth. Avraham was willing to give up everything for God because he truly trusted in Him, and God realized that. He would never leave Avraham, the man who was meant to spread Ethical Monotheism and recognized God first, and ruin the Brit that they made together.