E35: Why did God tell Abraham to kill his son, Isaac?

One of the observations many skeptics make regarding the bible has to do with the nature of God; if God is truly as loving as Christians claim, why would God command Abraham to offer his son, Isaac, as a sacrifice?

This is a fair question, and oftentimes the answers offered by Christians fall short of adequately explaining this apparent dichotomy between what we see in scripture regarding God's nature. If God is love, demanding a human sacrifice doesn't make a whole lot of sense. But when the ancient cultural context in which this narrative account is embedded is considered, this story of Abraham and Isaac, the son of promise, comes to life in ways many Christians have never considered, and a solid explanation is found that makes sense of what scripture reveals about God's nature.

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