It’s impossible to ‘sanitize’ what God asked Abraham to do that day. “He said, ‘Take 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 the mountains of which I shall tell you’” (Genesis 22:5). Abraham knew what this meant. After all, this was not his first offering. There were the material items he’d need. He’d need stones for building, wood for burning, and tethers for binding. And he’d need, well, he’d need … the......

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