If God Told You ...

[Messy]

Bottom line is that Abraham said he knew he wouldn't kill his son. He said he knew God would provide a sacrifice.

If you don't believe that, then on what grounds do you believe the fact that God provided a sacrifice in the person of Jesus Christ, to die in our place, since the account of Abraham and Isaac was a foreshadowing of that event?

There's an awful lot of "I think this" and "I think that" going on here, but neither one of you are looking at what the text says.

I am looking at the text, but Hebrews says something different, so I have to think this and that to make something from two opposites.
If he knew for sure he didn't have to kill him it was just playing how it would happen but not really and God asking him things He didn't mean. Why would God test if he wanted to sacrifice him if he knew he didn't have to sacrifice him? What was the use of the test?
If he wasn't willing to offer his son and get him back from the dead it isn't a foreshadowing of what God the Father did. He was willing and He did it and Abraham got him back figuratively because God said no.

The text is very clear imo:
And Abraham stretched out his hand and took the knife to slay his son.

And He said, “Do not lay your hand on the lad, or do anything to him; for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me.”

He didn't have the law yet that says you shouldn't kill.

 

[ebia]

He didn't have the law yet that says you shouldn't kill.

god is pretty clear to Noah on that one.

 

[Targaryen]

Just because you don't like the question doesn't make it "childish."

It's a very profound question if you actually give it some thought. And it's far from a contemptuous question...

It's not profound at all. It's childish and ridiculous.

Thanks for playing.

 

[Lenny3]

It's not profound at all. It's childish and ridiculous.

Thanks for playing.

Well, if thinking is childish to you, that's your prerogative.