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  • "Well if that's what god wants that's what god gets!" Who am I to question this maniacal egotistical maniac! ...lol
  • G-d called on Abraham to make the most extreme sacrifice: Many religious people would be prepared to die for their beliefs- in the hope that they'd then get a comfy reward on the "other side". Abraham's challenge was more extreme than that. He had dedicated his life to spreading awareness of G-d to as many people as possible- to him this was the most important thing in life. The one and only person who could carry on his life's mission was his son, Isaac. Killing Isaac would mean killing everything he stood for and believed in. Abraham wouldn't have even gained publicity for this sacrifice, because nobody was on the mountain to see his great show of faith. This test was simply G-d's way to illustrate to Abraham (and to us) how far he could actually go in dedication. Reading this story should prompt us to ask ourselves how far we'd be willing to go to show our commitment.
  • I am not Jewish, but this is how a rabbi on TV interpreted this story. He claimed that just as God was testing Abraham, Abraham was also testing God.He argued that Abraham would never have sacrificed his son and that he was just playing along with God. He expected God to intervene at the last moment and if God had not, he would never have killed his son and then he would have abandoned the worship of Yahweh.
  • i view it simply as this ...Abraham's FAITH in God was that God KNEW at all Times what HE was doing and why...to question HIS AUTHORITY would of been a 'lapse' in TRUST and FAITH....which Abraham did have a few times.....he was a human sinner .....
  • I heard an interesting perspective (with a bit of me thrown in) that is as follows: Back in ancient biblical times, human sacrifice was big. It was awesome and bloody and it showed a true reverence for your Gd to kill. And a lot of people used their children (because, well, they were handy and that wasn't much birth control back then, except for the pulling out method, which we all know works about as well as just keeping it in there) for this method. So here everyone was, all gong-ho on human sacrifice, except for Abraham. He was going around to all the villages, and going on and on about how terrible it is to do this. What a waste of life (not to mention clean up) and that there were better ways (use an animal instead!) and basically making a bit of a nuisance of himself going on about monotheism and to quit this human sacrifice thing. And then, Abraham's ultimate test, go on a three day journey with his son, Yitzchak (who is actually around thirty at this time, not the seven year old a lot picture in our heads), past quite a few villages where Abraham so pressed them all about his Gd, his donkey filled with all of the necessary equipment for sacrifice, except his usual intended victim, an animal. And then they realize that this radical guy, who went on about how different and special is Gd is, wants human sacrifice? The ultimate blow to his pride. Who wants others to witness you go against your word? Your word about what Gd wants? Couple that with Chabad Rabbi's answer (his only son after decades of barrenhood) and what do you get? A true sacrifice.
  • yes.. we (Muslims) belive in that because god ask Abraham to sacrifice his son just for testing him and he ask his son and he accept that..when he about sucrificing his son god give him a big cheap and that why we muslims sucrify a cheep in EID AL-Adha this the story in quran 37:101-109 ((So We gave him the glad tidings of a forbearing boy....And, when he (his son) was old enough to walk with him, he said: "O my son! I have seen in a dream that I am slaughtering you (offer you in sacrifice to Allah), so look what you think!" He said: "O my father! Do that which you are commanded, Insha' Allah (if Allah will), you shall find me of As-Sabirin (the patient ones, etc.)...Then, when they had both submitted themselves (to the Will of Allah), and he had laid him prostrate on his forehead (or on the side of his forehead for slaughtering)..And We called out to him: "O Abraham!..You have fulfilled the dream (vision)!" Verily! Thus do We reward the Muhsinun (good-doers - see V.2:112)...Verily, that indeed was a manifest trial...And We ransomed him with a great sacrifice (i.e. a ram)...And We left for him (a goodly remembrance) among generations (to come) in later times...Salamun (peace) be upon Ibrahim (Abraham)..))
  • Muslims believe that it was ISHMAEL (peace be upon him) rather than Isaac (peace be upon him) whom Abraham (peace be upon him) was told to sacrifice. In support of this, Muslims note that the text of Genesis as it stands, despite specifying Isaac, appears to state that Abraham (peace be upon him) was told to sacrifice his ONLY son ("Take now thy son, thine only son, whom thou lovest, even Isaac," Jewish Publication Society translation, Genesis/Bereshit 22:2) to God. Since Isaac was Abraham's SECOND son, there was no time at which he would have been Abraham's ONLY son, so this implies that the original text must have named Ishmael rather than Isaac as the intended sacrifice. The entire episode of the sacrifice is regarded as a trial that Abraham (peace be upon him) had to face from Allah (God). It is celebrated by Muslims on the day of Eid ul-Adha (during Hajj). Muslims also believe that Abraham, along with his son Ishmael (peace be upon them), rebuilt the Kaaba in Mecca (as stated in the Noble Quran 2:125.)
  • Yes, this Christian believes Jesus thought His Father would spare him from The Cross. Just like His Father spared Isaac. That is why Jesus cried out on the cross, "what's going on here?".

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