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 ...

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 ...

Abraham is a very important figure in the Bible. He is a very important ... Abraham’s ultimate call from God was to sacrifice his son Isaac. God had promised to bring him descendants “as ...

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?” ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...