What Abraham was asked to surrender points to a truth modern hearts resist: that fatherhood, like faith, demands total ...

It highlights significant events such as Abraham's near-sacrifice of Isaac, Moses leading the Israelites through the wilderness, the conquest of Canaan, and the building of the temple by Solomon.

Christian theology has long recognized these “visitors” as the Triune God and seen in this passage one of the first allusions ...

So the Jews said to him, 'You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?' Jesus said to them, 'Truly, truly, I ...

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Abraham and Sarah had a son and called him Isaac. Later, God asked Abraham to sacrifice Isaac (Genesis 22). This must have deeply disturbed Abraham, but he did as God asked, and as he was about to ...

Sacrifice 311 (credit ... The narrative rockets us from the seemingly happy ending as Isaac is spared and Abraham passes ...