God tested Abraham by telling him to kill his son?

🔥The question: “Is a man who obeyed an order to offer his child in sacrifice a model of faith?”

🛡️The Church's answer: The text says from the outset that this command is a ‘test,’ and at the end God does not let Isaac be harmed. That does not lighten the terror the child and the father went through, and the Church does not teach that we should copy everything Abraham did. Abraham is a model of faith not because he was ready to harm his child but because he trusted to the end that the God who had given the promise would not let him lose Isaac. The ending makes clear that God does not want the death of a child, and the Church reads it in the light of Christ, who demanded no one else's sacrifice but gave himself.

🧐If they press further: “What if someone tries to harm a child, saying God told them to?” — Refuse immediately, get the child to safety, and report it to the police, the child's guardians, and the relevant authorities. This text is never a permit to obey a dangerous command.

✨In one sentence: “The story of Isaac is not a model for killing a child; it shows the God who stops the knife, and a trust that entrusts everything.”