The Story of Abraham

It was then that God told Abram to play along their journey into Canaan, promising him wealth, largeness, and a nation of descendents in slip by (Genesis 12:1-5). This was the beginning of Abram's change into the Patriarch. He had left foundation a great civilization to follow his God into a nomadic steering of life in the wilderness.

After change of location to Egypt to wait out a famine, however, Abram put away did not in full trust the God that he believed had called him into Canaan. So, when he was afraid that the Egyptians would overcome him in order to take his wife away from him, he told them she was his sister (Genesis 12:10-20). After returning to Canaan, he and his nephew's herds had grownup too large and they separated, Abram going east (Genesis: 13:8-11).

At this epoch, Abram and Sarai had still not had the children that God had promised them, so Sarai, after the custom of the times, gave Abram her Egyptian maidservant, Hagar, as a concubine (Gardner 59). In this way she hoped

that Abram's line would still come up and that she would at least have a foster intelligence (Genesis 16:1-2). While this was a custom of the time, it also meant that Abram and Sarai still did not truly believe that they were going to be the founders of a people and three religions.

In the mean time, Hagar conceived and there was jealousy and anger between Hagar and Sarai, so Hagar ran away (Genesis 16:4-6). She was convinced(p) to return, however, and promised by God that her son, Ishmael, though to become a unverbalized and angry person, would also be the father of a great nation, that would include 12 princes (Genesis 16: 9-15). Abram was then again promised that he would father many nations through his wife Sarai, but this time their names were changed to Abraham and Sarah, since they would be the parents of a multitude (Genesis 17: 1-16). It is through the line of Ishmael, that Islam traces its spiritual and physical roots (Origins of Christianity www.ethicalatheist.com).

Gardner, Joseph L. Atlas of the Bible. Pleasantville, NY: Reader's
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