The story in Genesis of Abraham’s willingness to kill his son Isaac at God’s command still gets a lot of attention. But it doesn’t get a lot of love. In every broadside against religion, God ...

Q: Attending Catholic school as a child, I remember being bothered by the story of Abraham being tested by God. God asked Abraham to sacrifice his only son, Isaac, up to Him. Once God saw that Abra… ...

Story of Abraham and Isaac teaches, "what it means to fear God And it means this: To fear God is to do whatever He asks of us, when He asks.".

Story of Abraham and Isaac teaches, "what it means to fear God And it means this: To fear God is to do whatever He asks of us, when He asks.".

Few figures in the Bible, and indeed the history of Western thought, loom as large as Sarah and Abraham from the Book of Genesis. Abraham's willingness to sacrifice their son Isaac has inspired ...

Among Israel’s great patriarchs — Abraham, Isaac and Jacob — Isaac is something of a transitional figure. That doesn’t make him unimportant, but he is transitional. He’s important ...

The story of Abraham and Isaac is one of the most fascinating, and troubling, in the Bible. It has inspired philosophers like no other.

In the Beginning, There Was Marilynne Robinson Her new book, “Reading Genesis,” treats the Bible like a perfectly plotted historical novel.

The perfect test and indeed the only test was to ask Abraham to sacrifice Isaac while at the same time believing that God would not actually require him to go through with the sacrifice.