I must admit, I've never liked the Abraham story. There's the bad blood between Sarah and Hagar (Hajira is sooo much nicer!), there's the whole story of Lot in there too ("Oooh, don't sleep with my male guests, here, have my virgin daughters instead... who will then sleep with me to get pregnant anyway"), there's the sacrifice of Isaac... even though the sacrifice isn't needed, I just find it hard to cope with the thought that Isaac was so long-awaited and then thought his Dad was going to kill him... I know he didn't but it's still the thought of it.

And yes, I know that Jesus had to die for us and that He is the son of God and all that, but God knows His divine plan, we don't. And I just don't like the thought of parents killing their children. God is clearly different as He can see what will happen, but we mortals, well, we shouldn't be encouraged to kill our babies! But that's an emotive Mummy talking.