As you will gather from the video above, the title of this post indicates not that these two patriarchs live, but that the video is a live performance of Benjamin Britten’s canticle “Abraham and Isaac.” See Bob Macdonald’s blog for another performance, and the text that Britten set here.
Of related interest (since the story is one of many that depicts God in a troubling manner), here’s a meme that Jeremy Myers shared:
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