Abraham, a man willing to kill his son. Good call.
I asked you in another thread Em, if you were/are a believer, and said if you did not answer, that was an answer. You did not answer.
I believe when you signed up for this forum you agreed you ARE a Christian, but it seems you are not, and are, in fact, on this website to try to disprove the Bible.
But there is a God, one God, and He hates duplicity, so at least be honest about where you are coming from. Since you are not a believer, I assume, if you have questions, if you are truly searching for the truth, then ask away. Just be clear as to where you are at; what you believe and don't believe. And you are asking the right questions. The hard questions. Questions every thinking believer asks.
And ya, I always hated the story of Abraham being called to kill his son too, but it is a foreshadowing of what Jesus did for us, and also, Jews have a tradition that it was also a way for God to say no child sacrifice, which was rampant in that day.
I thought of that myself, but it took me years to come to that thought, then I went and heard a Jewish poet, and he rambled it off as if it was common knowlege. I was stunned.
But I think it was also a test for all of us reading it. Because not far before that, that same story, if you take it as a whole, which you/we should, and very early on in the Bible, God tells Abraham He is going to destroy Sodom ans Ghamorra (sp?) and Abraham has this long, very touching kind of argument with him....
'But God, what if there are 100 righteous there...you would not destroy the righteous with the just would you? And God says no, if there are 100 righteous I will not destroy them. Then Abraham rethinks it, and says but what if there are 50? Again God says no.
Abraham finally gets down to a really small number to which God replies again no, but at the same time is sendimg his angels to retrieve Lot and his daughters (their husbands would not come if I remember correctly).
The point is,( in spite of my bad paraphrase of the story), that God knows what he is doing. And the Bible leaves out a whole lot. We do not know Isaac's perspective on the matter, but we do know he continued to be a believer.
So the question is, what do you believe? And who do you trust?
Ironically, it was Satan that taught me to believe in God, in large part, many years ago, because I have seen Satan's works, (evil) and I have seen God's, (Good) and I will trust God, in spite of the many things I do not understand.
That story about Abraham questioning God, if He would destroy the righteous along with the wicked, was like God saying, 'you're going to read some difficult things ahead...Who do you trust?'