The rest of that story.
God didn't try to make Abraham kill Isaac. He tested Abraham's faith. Once God was satisfied that Abraham would obey Him no matter what the task, Isaac was spared. But you knew that already, didn't you?
You used part of that story to deflect criticism about ancient human sacrifices among druids. That's intellectually dishonest.
But then again, you knew that too.
Jim Jones used to to the same thing (dulls the moral sensibilities of the followers), long before he issued the Big One. Of course they followed him, he's testing us again.
"God didn't try to make Abraham kill Isaac. He tested Abraham's faith. Once God was satisfied that Abraham would obey Him no matter what the task, Isaac was spared. But you knew that already, didn't you? "
Yep!
"You used part of that story to deflect criticism about ancient human sacrifices among druids. That's intellectually dishonest.
But then again, you knew that too."
LOL! Got me again! Here's a question, though (one I truly do not know the answer to, I promise): Why was Abraham so ready to sacrifice his only marital-blood son Isaac to God if human sacrifice was NOT a part of the culture he lived in? Wouldn't one living in an anti-human sacrificial culture be abhorred at such a request?
Frankly, if God told me tonight to sacrifice my only son to Him, I'd tell him to go to hell. What kind of a sick deity would make such a request in the first place?!
If God knows all, including the future....why test Abraham? Wouldn't God already know what Abraham's decision would be?