Hmm...interesting take.
I was always taught that it was a picture foreshadowing G*d sacrificing his own son (Christ).
I was always taught that it was a picture foreshadowing G*d sacrificing his own son (Christ).
It is.
When does the word love first appear in the Scriptures?
Genesis 22:
2: And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.
When the anti-religionists quote the story of Isaac and Abraham as showing the unloving nature of God I always have to laugh.
Gid did not make Abraham sacrifice his son. Yes, what a price that would be.
It is, however, the price He paid himself.
7: And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?
8: And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: