first sonni away. abraham for better or worse is used to hearing god s voice and in one day as we re told in genesis 22, god decides to test abraham and he says take your son, your only son whom you love and offer him as a sacrifice at the place that i will show you. god was telling abraham to kill his own son. you would think that that story is so bar bar rick it would die out. jews read it, christians read it in the holiest week of the year, easter, muslims read it in their holiest week of the year.