In the story, God puts Abraham to the test, asking him to “Take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of ...

Story of Abraham and Isaac teaches, "what it means to fear God And it means this: To fear God is to do whatever He asks of us, when He asks.".

“Long before we came to Mount Sinai,” said Rabino Shalem, “God spoke to Abraham – not me, but our patriarch.” He winked and smiled with such charm.

Abraham reached a higher level of religious self conscious. Abraham realized that everything comes from God; both what we think is good and what we think is bad.

All throughout the Bible and even and especially today, God speaks to us in a personal way. That’s how he is and who he is, a personal God, personally knowable and wants dearly to have a ...

Through sacrifice and unwavering faith, Abraham’s covenant with God prefigures the greater fulfillment in Christ, as depicted in sacred art through the ages.