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Podcast: Reasoning Through the Bible
Episode: S28 || Abraham, Isaac, And the Question of God’s Goodness || Hebrews 11:17-29 || Session 28
Description: What do you do when God’s command seems to collide with your moral intuition? We take on the Abraham-and-Isaac dilemma head-on and trace how Hebrews chapter 11 reframes the story: not as an ethical nightmare, but as a window into resurrection hope and God’s unwavering goodness. Abraham believed the God who gave Isaac could raise him, and that single conviction transforms a scandal into a portrait of trust.From there, we widen the lens. We unpack why “only begotten” (monogenes) means unique rather than created, connecting Isaac’s role as the son of promise to Jesus, the one an...