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2006-07-13 08:48:55 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Religion as you term it, is a recent invention. Abraham was not part of a religion, but a follower of God, and a leader of His people.
2006-07-13 08:51:55 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I had to laugh at the answer that "theeagleph" gave.
Sorry..but some in the Christian camp seem to get a bit wound up!
Okay - it could be argued that Abraham was Jewish.
Clearly, he was (according to Wikipedia, see link), the "first post-flood person to reject idolatry through rational analysis".
Any student of Bible study knows that Abraham had two children, from two wife's: Hagar & son Ishmael, Sarah & son Isaac (he actually had three wives and a total of eight children, but thats another story).
Anyway - Isaac became the link to Judism and Ishmael was the link to Islam.
So what was Abraham?
The second link indicates that ethnically, he was both a Hebrew and a Semite.
All had multiple gods in those days.
It was Abraham who defined the existance of ONE GOD.
This is known as monotheism.
Judaism being the first religion to subscribe to a belief in one God, seems to be the rational conclusion that Abraham was Jewish.
2006-07-13 09:04:49 · answer #2 · answered by Bakerman55 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Abraham is known as the great patriarch and is realy the father of the three great monotheistic religions but like jesus christ was a jew and not a christian yet still the founder of christianity i think it would go the same way. Abraham was monotheistic more then anything else if you could call that a religion.
2006-07-13 09:02:29 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Abraham didn't really have a name for his religion. He simply knew his deity as "God". Judaism didn't really exist at that time. It developed out of the teachings of Abraham's God, who is also the God of Christianity. The intersting thing is that Abraham was the first to worship and recognize a single deity. He didn't need many gods, one for harvest, one for the sun, one for the moon, etc. His God was big enough to rule over all, which is the basic concept of a deity anyway, an all powerful being. It makes a lot of sense if you think about it.
2006-07-13 08:53:52 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Abraham was Jewish and is considered the father of the Jewish faith. Abraham had two sons Isaac and Ishmael. Abraham’s son Isaac’s decedents became the basis for today’s Jewish religion and Christianity. Abraham’s son Ishmael’s descendents formed the Moslem religion. Abraham is the root to Judaism, Christianity and Moslem religions.
2006-07-13 09:08:14 · answer #5 · answered by damdawg 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Abraham himself practiced the religion passed down from Adam, the same religion as Melchezidek. Abraham's father was a human sacrificing idol worshipper, though. That's why he thought it "needful to obtain another place of residence."
And actually, Jews are descendents of Abraham's great grandson, Israel's son, Judah. Not all Israelites are Jewish.
2006-07-13 08:57:11 · answer #6 · answered by MornGloryHM 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Abraham was born "Abram" and described as a Hebrew. He was born in Ur of Chaldees, according to Genesis, chapter 11, verse 31. Ur was located on the continent of Arabia. However, Abraham was a descendent of Shem, one of the sons of Noah who lived before the flood on the continent of Africa. God named him Abraham, which was said to mean "a father of many nations." He was monotheistic and a believer and communicator with God. Monotheism was characteristic of the Jewish religion in that part of the world at that time. Abraham, therefore, was Jewish (Hebrew). He led his people to worship a one true and unseen, spirit god. He was an iconoclast and disdained idol worship as well.
2006-07-13 09:32:30 · answer #7 · answered by Jess4rsake 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Patriarch Abraham is Christian, like Adam, Noah, Enoch,Methuselah, Moses, all the prophets. Jesus of course was Jewish of the tribe of Judah.
Jesus Christ(Jehovah) was with the Father(Elohim) even from the very beginning. God is the same Yesterday, Today, and Forever!
2006-07-13 08:52:18 · answer #8 · answered by theeagleph 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Abraham was the first man to please God! If you really read the Bible and study some of the history, you find out that Abraham wasn't even Jewish! God called him out of his home land to go to Israel where God promised him the land and as many descendants ( wow I spelled that wrong) as the stars in the sky! It wasn't a religion back then..you either believed in God or you didn't!
2006-07-13 08:54:11 · answer #9 · answered by Susan 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why are you asking if you already know the answer?!?
Abraham was a follower of the one God despite living in a society that followed many gods.
He was not a Jew (that started with his son Isaac's descendants). He was not a Muslim (that started with his son Ishmael's descendants).
2006-07-13 09:03:35 · answer #10 · answered by bikerchickjill 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋