God loves blood and death. He requires blood sacrifice for his creations to atone for their sins, and he required his son to give himself up as the ultimate blood sacrifice. Maybe he was grooming Abraham to be more like him by trying to get him to kill Isaac, as god would one day kill Jesus?
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