Context is how much faith you have in God or deity with assumption that you are a believer. It’s a story so don’t take it seriously 😐.
Discussion
That is your individual interpretation of the story. The basic fact is that there is a higher power that asks a father to kill his son to prove his devotion, and he decides to follow the order. At least that's how I see it.
You can’t obey if you don’t have blind faith.
Abraham knew higher power can bring that life back.
Obedience or blind faith is definitely not for me. Maybe that's why I can't identify with it.
Not for me either, well the blind faith part, and I am catholic. I was born into it but everything I questioned for myself in terms of morality and philosophy turned out to be exactly what the church has been saying forever. Even when I thought I found something they got wrong, it just turned out that my teachers had failed to relay what the actual documentation said.
I realized that 99% of successfully navigating life is using a lookup table to be able to respond to situations quickly. I can and should reason stuff out for myself to build my table, but situations vastly outstrip and out pace my ability to reason about each instance. Faith is a cheat code allowing you to crib a bunch of other people's hard work. I don't feel bad cribbing from a faith that is batting 1000 for the things I have pondered my way through.
This story is much more than a test of faith. Abraham didn't even question God's order or hesitate to carry it out. In the time Abraham lived, all the pagan gods demanded child sacrifice. God stopping Abraham from killing his son shows that He was different from all the other gods.
If today I asked you to kill your child to prove your loyalty to me, and then just before you did it, I would say. Stop, I was just kidding, I don't want you to kill your child anymore. What would you say I am?
You not getting the point, it’s the faith and from above comment pagan gods were asking for human sacrifice. But the God of the Bible said no. Now it’s the faith or you can say strength. It’s a story and take it easy man. That’s the peak of faith. You don’t have to do that much just have little faith in yourself and you can move mountains. In todays world no one will do that and if you do that will be a criminal act and you can be behind bar.