God decided to test Abraham, His chosen patriarch (why God didn't test Abraham before He named him the father of His nation I don't know). So anyway, God tells Abraham to sacrifice his only son, Isaac, whom God gave to Abraham and Sarah (they were old, so there was no way they were going to accomplish that on their own), just to prove Abraham's faith. So, Abraham and Isaac travel out to a mountain in the middle of nowhere and Isaac's all like, "what are we doing?" and Abraham's like "we're sacrificing to God, son," and Isaac's like, "but we haven't anything to sacrifice," and Abraham's like, "well, the Lord will provide," and then proceeds to tie up Isaac (who doesn't seem to resist to his elderly father who he could easily overwhelm) to an alter and sharpen his dagger to slay him (Isaac still doesn't seem to be at all alarmed by these happenings). Just before Abraham raises his dagger to stab Isaac, God stopped him and provided a ram instead as sacrifice and everything was hunky-dory.
True sacrifice is defined as, "the surrender or destruction of something prized or desirable for the sake of something considered as having a higher or more pressing claim."
I find it interesting how you retell the biblical story without sounding like a broken record, and saying the same things the same way as everyone else. The modern touch works well.
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