When you are dying in your bed many years from now, would you be willing to trade all those likes and hearts and shares and retweets from your first day on the internet to your last, for just one chance to come back here as young men and women and live the life you pretended to have in other people’s pockets?

God, in this instance, is essentially putting out a hit on a child. In a court of law, the hitman—in this case, Abraham—is not solely responsible for the murder he commits. It is also the person who orchestrates the hit that bears some responsibility.