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Originally Posted by Dougstermd  as a Father can you even consider this a justified act?
Further you really think that abram/abraham was really getting busy at age 100 or that he could hike up the hill/ mountain to consider killing his son? 
just a thought not an anti-sermon |
Yes, it is quite difficult to comprehend with the mindset of our natural human intellect. But, one must remember that God deals with us on a spiritual level as the things of God are spiritually discerned.
But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. (1 Corinthians 2:14)
Also, Abraham had a direct and personal communication with God and remained completely obedient in what God asked him to do.
However, this was a
test of faith that God put Abraham through as it proved the degree of obedience and trust that Abraham had toward God. As a result God was pleased with Abraham's faith and did not allow Abraham to follow through with slaying Isaac.
"... Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me." (Genesis 22:12)
This was also a foreshadowing of what would come to pass in the life of Yeshua HaMAshiach (New Testament Jesus).
In other words, if just one faithful and obedient human was willing to give up his son to God in this manner then God would be willing to do what He asked of a mere mortal being. Herein is the foundational basis by which mankind receives forgiveness and reconciliation - through faith in the Atoning Blood of God's only begotten Son.
Herein is the test of faith placed upon all mankind:
And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:
That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. (John 3:14-18)
There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. (Romans 8:1)