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The Call to an Ideal Is a Sacrificial Transformation
In the Old Testament, God doesn't seem to be a miser. What happens to them is as they progress through their journey is they get larger flocks and more authority. And so the call to an ideal is also the call to a sequence of deaths and rebirths that move you closer and closer to the ideal. That's what God is calling Abraham to do in this story.