The Prophet Abraham: Scriptures and Resources

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Abraham is known as the founding father of Christianity, Judaism and Islam. His importance varies between the religions. His teachings and the history of his life is located in the Old Testament of the Christian Bible, the Torah and the Qu’ran. His story is consistent between the three religions.

Brief Biography of Abraham

Abram was a tenth generation descendent of Noah (of the ark). Not much is known about is childhood. As an adult, Abram lived in Haran with his brothers Nahor and Haran. He married a woman named Sarah. Abram received a message from God that he was to leave his home and travel to Canaan (now Israel) in order to create a covenant with God and become the father of the land. His wife, Sarah, was unable to produce children for Abram, and so she offered her husband her handmaiden, Hagar. Abram impregnated Hagar, and bore his first son, Ishmael. God promised Abraham that his wife would conceive a second son, Isaac. Upon Isaac’s birth, Abraham became known as Abram, and Sarah as Sarai. Isaac was born, and while he was still in his youth, God told Abram that he must sacrifice his youngest son in Moriah. The two traveled three days to reach the mountain that God specified. Isaac was notably confused about the absence of any sacrificial animal on their journey. Just before Abram sacrificed his son, an angel came down from the heavens and stopped him, providing him with a sacrificial ram. God rewarded Abram’s willingness to kill his own son with another promise of descendents and prosperity. Sarai died at the age of 127 and was buried in the Cave of the Patriarchs. Abram remarried and his new wife, Keturah, bore six more sons, Zimran, Josghan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak and Shuah. Abram died when he was 175 years old and was buried by his sons Isaac and Ishmael next to Sarai in the Cave of Patriarchs.

The Prophet Abraham’s Accomplishments

• Abraham was the first monotheistic believer in a pagan world. He was the first to spread belief in a single God
• Abraham believed in caring for other human beings, a belief that was not widespread at all at the time. Everyone hated strangers and treated them badly. Abraham believed in ‘loving your neighbor as you love yourself’
• Founding father in Judaism, Christianity and Islamic religions
• The nation of Israel descendent entirely though his second son, Isaac
• The prophet Muhammed (Arab beliefs) is a direct descendent of Abram

Abraham’s Scripture Sayings

Genesis 24:7 (Old Testament)
The LORD, the God of heaven, who brought me out of my father’s household and my native land and who spoke to me and promised me on oath, saving, “To your offspring I will give his land,” he will send his angel before you so that you can get a wife for my son from there.

Genesis 48:16 (Old Testament)
The Angel who has delivered me from all harm, may he bless these boys. May they be called by my name and the names of my fathers Abraham and Isaac, and may they increase greatly upon earth.

2 Chronicles 20:7 (Old Testament)
O our God, did you not drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel and give it forever to the descendants of Abraham your friend?

Romans 4:3 (Old Testament)
What does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed god, and it was credited to him as righteousness.”

James 2:24 (Old Testament)
You see that a person is justified by what he does and not by faith alone.

Genesis 15:6 (Old Testament)
Abram believed the LORD, and he credited it to him as righteousness.

Al-An’am, 6. 76-9) (Quaran)
When the night covered him (Abraham) over, he saw a star: He said, “This is my lord.” But when it set, he said, “I love not those that set.” When he saw the moon rising in splendor, he said, “This is my lord.” But when it set, he said, “Unless my Lord guided me, I would surely be among those who go astray.” When he saw the sun rising in splendor, he said, “This is m lord; this is the greatest.” But when the sun set, he said, “O my people! I am indeed free from your ascribing partners to God. For me, I have set my face towards Him who created the heavens and the earth, as a man of pure faith and one by nature upright, and I am not among those who associate partners with God.”

Resources about the Prophet Abraham

Lesson Plans – Christian
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The Story of Abraham and Sarah – Lesson Plans
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