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What Does the Bible Say about Human Sacrifice?
Several passages from the Torah and the prophetic books in the Hebrew Bible strongly condemn human sacrifice. There is no ...
Worcester Telegram on MSN5d
'In the fear of God' — Understanding the story of Abraham and Isaac
I retired from my secular career a year ago this month, and last fall — with all the other kids — I went back to school. In ...
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Knight of Faith: Kierkegaard on Abraham’s Sacrifice
Abraham could have resigned Isaac to God, sacrificing his son for ... and faith opens up the complexity in Abraham’s willing sacrifice of his beloved son. In Kierkegaard’s sense, one must ...
The Times of Israel7mon
The Sons of Abraham and October 7th
The equally troubling story is in Genesis 22 where G-d orders Abraham to sacrifice his son, Isaac, on Mount Moriah. Abraham agrees but then is stopped at the last minute when G-d sends an angel ...
The Forward5mon
The Binding of Isaac, the pardoning of Hunter Biden
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 ...
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Did Abraham sacrifice Ismail or Isaac?
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 ...
The New York Times7mon
ABRAHAM'S TRUST IN GOD; Dr. Talmage's Lesson from the Presenting of Isaac as a Sacrifice. NO OFFERING TOO GREAT TO MAKE Christ Sustains His Followers and Throws Open the Gates ...
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 ...