suffering continues. In Scripture we have the example of the apostle Paul, who three times asked God to remove his “thorn in the flesh,” and three times was told that God’s grace was sufficient for him (2 Cor. 12:7–9).12 I am particularly struck by the comments of biblical scholar Walter Moberly, who positively values Abraham’s response to God in his many writings on Genesis 22.13 Moberly admits that his interpretation of the Aqedah has been significantly impacted by his own “existential struggles