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In The Binding of Isaac, Religious Murders & Kabbalah, Lippman Bodoff argues that Abraham never intended to actually sacrifice his son, and that he had faith that God had no intention that he do so.

Others suggest that Abraham's apparent complicity with the sacrifice was actually his way of testing God.

Abraham had previously argued with God to save lives in Sodom and Gomorrah.

By silently complying with God's instructions to kill Isaac, Abraham was putting pressure on God to act in a moral way to preserve life.

More evidence that Abraham thought that he won't actually sacrifice Isaac comes from Genesis 22: 5, where Abraham said to his servants, " You stay here with the ass.

The boy and I will go up there ; we will worship and we will return to you.

" By saying that we ( as opposed to I ), he meant that both he and Isaac will return.

Thus, he didn't believe that Isaac would be sacrificed in the end