Phronetics and Biblical Morality

Advocates of 'Biblical Morality' tend to gloss over the point that the Old Testament is not as monolithic on the topic as they usually represent it to be. Most notably, while one of the Ten Commandments forbids Killing, elsewhere God commands Abraham to do just that. That is, in one place Morality consists in the performance or non performance of certain acts, while in the other, the Principle is obedience to God, regardless of content. The death penalty for murder and faith-based war are two of the most common expressions of the equivocality of this Morality. Furthermore, these alternatives do not exhaust the Moral resources of the Old Testament. A little-appreciated third Principle can be easily inferred from Genesis. There, God is the Creator, and humans are created 'in his image'. Hence, humans are fundamentally creative, yielding the Principle 'Be creative!' The latter is equivalent to 'Evolve!', so Evolvemental Phronetics is no less consistent with Biblical Morality than is the more familiar version of the latter. Though, killing another will, except in immediately dire circumstances, always be among the less Evolved, less creative, courses of Action possible.