Passing Life's Tests: Spiritual Reflections on the Trial of Abraham, the Binding of Isaac Not Your Mama's dining with them

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this book embarks on an intriguing and accessible exploration of the purpose of pleasure in our lives and in human history

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Passing Life's Tests: Spiritual Reflections on the Trial of Abraham, the Binding of Isaac Not Your Mama's dining with themChallenges you to go beneath the brief, shocking story and ask: who is the tester, who is the tested and what motivates the test? Among stories so terrible they rend our hearts, so profound they touch the depths of our souls and so exalted they reach to heaven, none is more poignant than the Bible story of Abraham's sacrifice of his son, Isaac. A story revered by Jews, Christians and Muslims, and turned over and over by great secular thinkers