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But Abraham had faith and did not doubt. He believed the absurd. If Abraham had doubted - then he would have done something else, something great and glorious; for how could Abraham have done other than what is great and glorious? He would have marched out to the mountain of Moriah, chopped the firewood, set light to the fire, drawn the knife - he would have cried out to God: ‘Do not scorn this sacrifice, it is not the best I possess, that I well know; for what is an old man compared with the child of promise, but it is the best I can give. Let Isaac never come to know, that he may comfort himself in his young years.’ He would have thrust the knife into his own breast. He would have been admired in the world and hie name never forgotten; but it is one thing to be admired, another to be a guiding star that saves the anguished.
But Abraham had faith.
But Abraham had faith.
— Soren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling
