God asked Abraham to sacrifice his only son, Isaac, up to Him ... 22nd chapter of Genesis is the best example I know of in the Bible of why we should not give up but look deeper into Scripture ...

I have heard clergy say they wish it were not in the Bible ... stops the sacrifice, and versions in which Isaac runs away. Bob Dylan’s Abraham thinks God is putting him on.

A midrash is a story about a story in the Bible. The ancient rabbis began ... The perfect test and indeed the only test was to ask Abraham to sacrifice Isaac while at the same time believing ...

The story of Abraham and Isaac is one of the most fascinating, and troubling, in the Bible. It has inspired ... why did God want Abraham to sacrifice Isaac?” “Can we discuss this later?” ...

The most well-known image evoking human sacrifice in the Bible is that of Abraham standing over his son Isaac with a knife in response to a divine demand. Famously, an angel intervenes to stop ...

God could never have expected Abraham to kill Isaac. Others infer that God never asked Abraham to sacrifice his son literally, because God only considers kosher animals fit for offerings ...

Few figures in the Bible, and indeed the history of Western thought, loom as large as Sarah and Abraham from the Book of Genesis. Abraham's willingness to sacrifice their son Isaac has inspired ...

The birth of Isaac was miraculous as present day medical science, with all its expertise, cannot declare that a 90-year-old man could impregnate his wife and have a child. When God tested Abraham to ...