HIS ONLY SON is a stirring, dramatic retelling of the Bible story from Genesis 22, about God’s commandment to Abraham to sacrifice his only son, Isaac, as a burnt offering on Mount Moriah, with some scenes showing what Abraham and his wife, Sarah, went through earlier. HIS ONLY SON is a compelling, rewarding, biblically accurate historical drama that points to the connections that Abraham’s story has with the sacrificial death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, the Jewish Messiah who has become a Light for Gentiles as well as for Jews.
The movie takes a contemplative look at God’s paradoxical command about Isaac to Abraham, Abraham’s struggle with carrying it out, and the meaning of this difficult passage from Genesis 22. As one Hebrew scholar puts it, “God took a landless man...