The Origin of the Abrahamic Religions
How the tale of a man and his two sons would shape the entire human history!
Once upon a time, there lived a man called Abraham in a place called Ur (which is present-day Iraq) in Mesopotamia. Mesopotamia had polytheism in those days, meaning many people followed many different gods, and an idolatry form of worship was common.
Abraham worked in his father’s idol shop, but he himself never saw the point of worshipping some idol created by humans itself, and would often question its rationale. Then one day, Abraham had a revelation from God himself telling him that there is indeed only one God and not many gods like most people believe. Abraham was also commanded by God to depart the house of his father Terah and move to the land called Canaan which is the present-day Israel-Palestine.
Despite being foretold that he would be blessed with offspring by God in his revelation, Abraham and his wife Sarah remained childless for a long time. When Abraham was ninety-nine years old, he was given the certainty that his wife would have a son. Sarah, skeptical about how a couple their age could possibly have a child, did not believe in this revelation. However, Sarah soon became pregnant and bore a son to Abraham, at the very moment which had been predicted. Abraham, a hundred years old at the time, named the child “Isaac.”
