God asked Abraham to sacrifice his only son, Isaac, up to Him. Once God saw that Abraham was willing to do what He asked, God stopped Abraham from killing Isaac. It was only when I became an adult ...

stops the sacrifice, and versions in which Isaac runs away. Bob Dylan’s Abraham thinks God is putting him on. He isn’t, but Woody Allen’s God is: “See,” Abraham says after God chides him ...

Abraham’s silence in the story of the binding of Isaac is deafening! From a historical point of view, the story of the binding of Isaac is an attack upon child sacrifice as a form of ritual rite ...

Several passages from the Torah and the prophetic books in the Hebrew Bible strongly condemn human sacrifice. There is no ...

he had bound Isaac to an accord with the King of Gerar long before G-d ever tested Abraham with the command to sacrifice Isaac. Let us then reframe the test as follows to conciliate with other ...

Only much later did I realize that Abraham had two sons, Ishmael the firstborn and then Isaac. But he had banished one into the wilderness and here he is ready to sacrifice the other. When God ...

God tells Abraham: “Take now your son, your only son, whom you love, Isaac, and go to the land ... This makes the sacrifice story a precursor to the story of Jesus. If that is your view of ...

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 ...

The sacrificed son was Ismael. The evidence for that is first, that Allah, the Almighty promised Abraham (PPBUH) and his wife that he could give them a son whose name was Isaac and that, that son ...

Was God’s command for Abraham ... sacrifice his son. Instead, one could argue, he was even harming the future collective, as God promised him progeny, a future ‘universal’ “concealed in ...

Set to hit theaters March 31, "His Only Son" is a biblical drama recounting one of the most controversial moments in the Old Testament when God asked Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac on the ...