(April 15, 2013 at 8:37 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: Abraham and Isaac, hmmm...tough puzzle and probably the most perplexing and disturbing one of all. What strikes me about it is this. Child sacrifice was a practice found in Canaan. Abraham would not have been surprised that a typical god would make such a request. God's bait and switch seems to me like a way to 1) test Abraham's obedience, while at the same time 2) setting worship in a different direction and 3) revealing to Abraham the difference between the Lord and the gods of other nations. Those are just my thoughts...not terribly profound given the subject.
Isn't there also... Abraham knew God to be just and good. If God commanded it then Abraham will have understood that this act would be justified. His was the ultimate self sacrifice and a recognition of sovereignty.
