Genesis 22. When carefully reading what the text says, the message of this chapter is that God does not want Isaac to be sacrificed. God’s love and mercy are available to humanity without having to be earned by sacrificing another human being.
an estimated 54% of the world’s population, some 3.8 billion people, revere the patriarch Abraham as the common ancestor of all religions of Semitic origin. An authentic Abrahamic tradition, Jewish, Christian or Islamic would be one that would follow the reason given in the Torah for Abraham’s preeminence
The flood was caused by “hamas,” the Hebrew word used by the Torah to refer to “violence.”
“Hamas” is the same word the Scriptures use to describe the sin for which Nineveh was to be destroyed in the book of Jonas and for which “sulfurous fire” rained down upon Sodom and Gomorrah.
