Johannes’s conclusions here highlight how easy it is to discount faith and, by extension, just how difficult it is to act on faith. Abraham’s story is riddled with “ifs”—
if one judges him by the ethical,
if he had actually sacrificed Isaac,
if he had talked to someone about it—and the conclusion is that
if he had acted differently, everything might have been different and he wouldn’t be the same great man of faith. Any knight of faith knows that if they deviate from the path of faith at all, they risk failing entirely.