The Sacrifice of Isaac

Two big problems:

One, this is one of the most disturbing incidents in the Bible. It’s a passage that makes us question whether the God the Bible presents is a good and loving God. It’s a passage like this that led Richard Dawkins to say this about the God of the Old Testament:

Secondly, this passage is listed as a top example of a Bible contradiction.

In many TV dramas, they start with a very condensed recap. Well let me give you a sixty second recap of the Bible’s drama to this point.

Life east of Eden. Blessing (reverse the curse).

With the recap ringing in our ears, step with me into this story. Let’s start by painting a picture of the