“Abraham…Take your son Isaac, your only one, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah. There you will offer it as a burnt offering, on a high place that I will show you." Genesis 22:2 So Abraham, with perfect faith and trust in the Lord, sets out the next morning to follow God's commandment. This is the beginning of one of the most intriguing and terrifying stories of the Old Testament. A man willing to kill his only son because he believes it is a divine command from God. All well and good for Abraham; However, what if someone came to me today and said that the Lord told them to sacrifice their son? Unlike Abraham, I don't have perfect faith and I doubt, I question, and I would probably think they were crazy. This also sets the stage for one of the vexing moral questions that has been addressed by theologians and philosophers for centuries: Was God's command to Abraham to kill Isaac moral? This issue has been addressed by the likes of Soren Kierkegaard and Immanuel Kant (Collins, 2007). For me, this is a topic I've wanted to address since I took an ethics class last year. In my opinion, there is indeed sufficient motivation for Abraham to act on God's word and take his only son to Mount Moriah to offer him as a sacrifice. Looking at the situation from a historical context, as well as the fact that Noah's laws in Genesis chapter nine state that all life belongs to God (Deffinbaugh, 2004), that God is an omniscient being, that there was no evidence of a direct threat of punishment or an offer of reward for following instructions (Landau, 2010), that both Abraham and Isaac had perfect faith and trust in the Lord, and finally that God asks nothing of Abraham that he has not asked . ..... middle of the paper ...... and I say that I would believe or have faith enough to follow in the footsteps of Abraham; I believe it would be difficult for most people to believe that God Himself spoke and commanded such an act. Perhaps if more people had Abraham's faith and listened to God's voice, our world would be a better place. Bibliography Armstrong, K. (1993). A Story of God. New York, NY: Random House Publishing Group.Collins, J.J. (2007). A brief introduction to the Hebrew Bible. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press. Cosby, B. (1983). Bill Cosby, himself. (B. Cosby, performer) Hamilton Place Theatre, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Deffinbaugh, B. (2004, May 11). The Noahic Alliance: a new beginning. Retrieved March 29, 2011, from Bibke.org: http://bible.org/print/book/export/html/69Landau, R. S. (2010). The Foundations of Ethics. New York, New York: Oxford University Press.