Sublime

Abraham

And if we are set upon the pursuit of God He will sooner or later bring us to this test. Abraham’s testing was, at the time, not known to him as such, yet if he had taken some course other than the one he did, the whole history of the Old Testament would have been different. God would have found His man, no doubt, but the loss to Abraham would have

loyalty to Jesus Christ is a prerequisite: moral, intellectual and spiritual loyalty.

because of his religious faith Abraham is deprived of the ability to care for Isaac, in the sense of being responsive to what happens to him.