This is a short addition to a recent post where I showed how making decisions is the key to truly living your life as an active participant. I showed you how Abraham was consciously making choices and that's why the Torah emphasises the fact that he lived his life, as an actor rather than a passive onlooker.
I'm adding this because you might ask me: How am I so sure that he was making choices? Maybe he was a rebellious character and he "couldn't help" being so?
The answer is this: someone who was merely contrary and who just thrives on confrontation would never have fulfilled God's demands in the way that he did. I mean if his nature was to oppose authority, then the fact that he picked up and left his childhood home at God's bidding is proof of his freewill and decision making.
Someone who is just a negative person would never have stood up and argued with God Himself for the sake of the den of iniquity that was Sodom. No, he would have revelled in it's destruction with self satisfaction.
The fact is that these are the actions of a highly introspective person, a person who is living life by making choices.
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