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| The High Place at Petra |
One of the strangest events recorded in the Bible is when God asked Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac. How can we understand this strange and shocking event? I hope, if you ever feel that God is leading you to sacrifice your child, that you will say “No!” and will quickly identify the source of this thought as the devil and not God! But yet this is what the Bible says God commanded Abraham to do: to kill his son. How do we make sense of that? How could the God of the Bible even think of such a thing, let alone command it; and how could Abraham accept that this was from God?