The Logical Atheist

Judges 11: 30-40 (Emphasis added.) And Jephthah [one of Israel's presiding judges] vowed a vow unto the LORD, and said, If thou shalt without fail deliver the children of Ammon into mine hands, 11:31 Then it shall be, that whatsoever cometh forth of the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, shall surely be the LORD's, and I will offer it up for a burnt offering. So Jephthah passed over unto the children of Ammon to fight against them; and the LORD delivered them into his hands. And he smote them from Aroer, even till thou come to Minnith, even twenty cities, and unto the plain of the vineyards, with a very great slaughter. Thus the children of Ammon were subdued before the children of Israel. And Jephthah came to Mizpeh unto his house, and, behold, his daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and with dances: and she was his only child; beside her he had neither son nor daughter. And it came to pass, when he saw her, that he rent hi...

Why didn't Yahweh punish or at least admonish Abraham for being ready and willing to sacrifice Isaac to him? In thinking about that, keep in mind that Yahweh cited child sacrifice as a reason for commanding the Israelites to slaughter every Canaanite, children included, in the Promised Land.

Instead of ordering the Israelites to slaughter all the Canaanites because of their sinful ways (see Leviticus 20 and Joshua for the account of this genocide and collective punishment), why didn't Yahweh incentivize the Canaanites to reform? Even more pertinent, why did Yahweh create the Canaanites knowing full well they would live in sin?