Despite being a Church Elder for close on 40 years, I still have
GREAT difficulty in coming to terms with a lot of Biblical hype - most especially some of the

stuff recorded in the
Old Testament in particular -
e.g., the story of 'Abraham and Isaac' ... that in which a
so-called "loving" Heavenly Father played a
particularly cruel and heartless trick on the former ...
whereby God
supposedly prevailed upon Abraham to bring his son to a mountain top and
slaughter him ... as a
test of his
faith! 