Bound to Join: A Review and Defense
April 2011 87 On the Way to Calvary that we must subject ourselves completely to Allah in order to procure for ourselves a reward. In order not to be misunderstood: The Bible also has to do with obedience. But it is an obedience that has a view to the promises of God, to faith. The required obedience has as its frame of reference the covenant, which is established by God. The secret of the offering of Isaac does not consist in our becom- ing witnesses to the manner in which Isaac willingly...