The passage of Genesis 22 is reviewed and examined through four interpretive lenses: Narrative Criticism, Canonical Criticism, Historical Criticism, and a Hermeneutic of Confrontation. After reviewing extensively the history of child sacrifice in Ancient Israel, the argument of Omri Boehm’s reconstructed text (lacking the angelic speeches), and the interpretation offered by Jesus in John 8, readers are encouraged to face the reality that they must make choices in how they read stories in the Bible, and the consequences those choices bring in the portrait of God they help paint.