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 ...

From the back seat my kindergartener called, “Mom, why did God want Abraham to sacrifice Isaac?” “Can we discuss this later?” I asked. “I’m focusing right now on driving safely.” ...

in Genesis 22:1–19, God tests Abraham’s faith by commanding him to sacrifice his only son, Isaac. Abraham, who had waited decades for the birth of Isaac, the son promised by God to carry on his ...

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 ...

The potential human sacrifice of Isaac appears grotesque to a modern sensibility. What can modern people of faith learn from Abraham’s story? Abraham, who is called the father of faith ...

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 ...

he has chosen for his subject Abraham's supreme trial of faith and the rescue of Isaac from being offered by his father as a sacrifice. The text selected is Genesis, xxil., 7: "Behold the fire and ...