Religion & Spirituality
Genesis 22 is one of the most famous stories in the Bible, the story of Abraham offering up Isaac. I think anyone can see, in this account of Abraham offering his son Isaac a remarkable foreshadowing in the Old Testament of the work of Christ in the New. As you read the story you can’t miss the parallel with God sending his own Son to Calvary’s mountain centuries later. While that is true, it is still a disturbing story. What God asks Abraham to do is grotesque and raises a number of troubling questions. The biggest struggle is not what was God doing, but why. Why is God testing Abraham this way? Doesn’t it all go against everything we know about God? These are some of the aspects of the story we need to grapple with on Sunday. Bible Text: Genesis 22: 1 - 24