Reading the Bible Existentially

655.672 - 690.115 R.C. Sproul

and God had come to me and said, kill my own son. I think the reason I would have woken up early in the morning is because I know I would have never been able to fall asleep. As soon as my eyelids grew heavy, the pain of that decision would intrude into my mind and I would begin to think, how could this be God? For me to sacrifice my own son, what kind of a God is that? Is he simply testing me?