Having never even stepped on church grounds, besides for a wedding, this is the first time I have heard of the story of Abraham and Isaac, let alone having read it. After reading the passage I must confess that I was quite surprised and confused. My initial reaction was that of many questions. Why does Abraham obey God? What kind of sick test is this? Why should anyone be this scared of God that they …showed first 75 words of 774 total…

…showed last 75 words of 774 total…wrong. Adams doesn’t want to take on this argument, instead he wants to deal with the fact that God does command something wrong and whether or not disobeying that command would be wrong. So lets assume that God does command something evil, Adams then says that he does not believe that if you obeyed that command it would be wrong or bad assuming that the goodness of God were the basis of this command.