Unfortunately as humans we're finite beings who often can't see past the situation immediately in front of us. God, on the other hand, is timeless and comprehends the past, the present and the future simulataneously....an unimaginable scope of perception. A request of Abraham of this magnitude could not be perceived in it's fullest terms.....I'm sure Abraham didn't imagine that this would lead to the founding of a nation of God's chosen people. All we can see is the immediate act and often can't get past it even when the events thereafter were laid out for us to review. He never promised that the cross would not be heavy, that the hill would not be hard to climb. He never offered our victories without fighting. He just said help would always come in time.
That's your take on it. What can I say?
I see a malicious and jealous man-made god that is obsessed with murder and sex(very human qualities) that even though, omnipotent, have to put his own creation through hell in order to reach heaven and if they tell him to piss off which he gave them the right to do, they're sent to hell for all eternity. A life worth of sins(can only be so many) is apparently justifiably punishable by eternal torture.
Somethings off here. This is not the design of an all-knowing, all loving omnipotent supreme being. It's the values of bronze-age men summarized in to a cult which happens to need an imaginary deity to claim authority.
