If God commanded you to sacrifice your child to him, would you?

I would have failed abraham's test.

You wouldn't have any problem obeying God if you had a relationship with Him the way that Abraham did. God found Abraham to be faithful and promised him he would be a father of many nations--through Isaac. Abraham believed God's promise because God was truthful and trustworthy. So, it didn't matter to Abraham what he was told to do, he had faith that God would work out the results that He had always intended. It wasn't for Abraham to worry about how (or why), but only to be faithful to God.

If you have just a nonchalant relationship with God, it's quite understandable that you'd have trouble trusting in Him. So, the fact that your unbelief turned you away from religion is more of a problem of yours than God's or the Bible.

It was a test of faith and obedience. God wanted to see what Abraham would be willing to sacrifice for Him. God had no intention of sacrificing Isaac because He had just finished telling Abraham that his descendents would be as numerous as the stars in the sky. Why would He do that if He was going to cause him to slay his son? It was also a foreshadowing of what God would do for all of mankind in the future by offering Jesus up on the cross.

reading you, i think its your nature not to delve, to enquire further - deeper into the issue.

what was the purpose of asking isaac as a sacrifice ?

the bible says ... abraham was TESTED.

God has no excuse to use this mode of testing humans ... you may argue.

really ? He is God. He does things in ANY way He likes. He needs no permission from the person He is testing. Your essence is dust .. how imp. are you ...

THAT was what made abraham the father of many nations .. to receive manifold blessings.

abraham UNDERSTOOD priority ...

abraham understood that God is no. 1 in our lives.

everybody else is dispensable .. yes, even his very own isaac.

am i a nutcase to you ?

what does that make YOU ...

Alot of people do not know how to read this story because they do not know the culture of the early Middle East which was the reality of the people by whom and for whom that story was told.

In the time of Abraham it was the normal and expected thing for the chief of a clan to sacrifice his first born son.

The point of that story is that God took him through the ritual that Abraham expected to do as a good religious ancient middle eastern idolater -- and then God stopped the ritual.

This story was the very graphic illustration that the new religion of Abraham would actualy be contrary to the ancient idolatrous system.

The point of the "binding of Isaak" is not that Abraham went to do it -- but that God stopped him.

He basicaly said - "I see that your are diligent in your religious duties -- but we're not going to do it this way in my religion!"

This was reiterated later in the law of Moses "do not pass your children through fire for Moloch"

And the prophet Jeremiah cursed those people who returned to the ancient anti-God / anti-Abraham / anti-Moses practice:

"They built high places for Baal in the Valley of Ben Hinnom to sacrifice their sons and daughters to Molek, though I never commanded—nor did it enter my mind—that they should do such a detestable thing and so make Judah sin." (Jeremiah 32:35)

Human sacrifice continued in "pagan" Europe into the 11th century, was prevalent in America at the time the Conquistadores came, was prevalent in India in the 19th century (Thugees) and still happens once in a while in rural India (sati)

But the story of the binding of Isaak was the point that Judaism said "Human sacrifice will absolutely not be part of the covenants of Abraham"

You have two versions of your question going here.

1) If "God commanded me to sacrifice my child" ~

I would know it's a deceiving spirit, and rebuke it

in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.

2) If I was in Abraham's position ~ That is, living in

his time, familiar with his frequent conversation with

God, and important promises from God - affecting

all future mankind, I would have trust in God and

obey Him, albeit with extreme trepidation.

I think you need to realize that we are not without a brain and some logical common sense. Go ask casey anthony on this subject,because your loose nuts just let a baby murderer go. Ohh wait let`s not forget your intellect wanna bee~s keep allowing abortion murders,1 million a year. Great education keep on teaching our kids on how to kill. Casey anthony is a product of what is to come down the road.

You don't understand the story of Abraham and Isaac. God had previously promised Abraham that through Isaac he would have countless descendants. God cannot break His promise. Then afterwards God asked Abraham to sacrifice Isaac. Abraham knew (or should have known) that since God had already promised that Isaac would continue his line, that it was impossible that God would actually let Isaac die.

Learn about the religion before criticizing it.

Something that does not exists cannot command anything, a psychotic mind that believes it is real certainly can command murder of any kind, see the story of Abraham .

I'm Gay and so I have never had children. Anyway God would not expect one to actually kill their child. Abraham didn't have to.

Surprising how many would say 'NO WAY' to God's requests...yet feel quite content to sacrifice their children by sending them to die for a country's ideology