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

Was God’s command for Abraham to sacrifice his son cruel? Does faith require embracing the unknowable, the inexplicable ...

I am still thinking of the Akeidah, and the scent of the burnt offering lingers ... the other will be rejected. Just like ...

Subsequently, God asks Abraham to execute Isaac. Abraham binds his own son in preparation for a human sacrifice, and an angel tells him that the Lord was merely testing his faith by asking him to ...