Avram Research Paper

Also mentioned in the Old Testament was Sarah. Though she did not lead any wars, she was very sacrificial. Sarah belonged to royal lineage; she was the wife of the prophet Abraham, and the mother of Isaac. She was originally named Sarai, she was Abraham’s first wife. It was Sarah who suggested that Abraham fulfill God’s promises by having sexual relations with Hagar, her personal maid, which was a great sacrifice on her part. However, as the man, this mistake was on Abraham’s shoulders, because he chose to listen to his wife and do the wrong thing. Sarah bore her first son, Isaac, when she was 91 years of age, past the time of being able to conceive (Gen. 18:13). The idea behind this unusual birth was to foreshadow the birth of our Lord. Their

Wade Butlers states that the rest of the bible is about one man’s family, which is Abraham. It is about how God kept his three promises that he made. There are many obstacles that the family goes through, but the stories show how God never disappoints his people. In the end he fulfills his three promises.

One of the first major events in Abraham's life is that of his calling. We first meet Abraham while he is living in the Ur of the Chaldeans in the east. We don't know much about his life prior to his calling by God but once steps into Abraham's life things change in radical ways. God

The covenant dominates the relationship, and was created to teach Abraham how to live in a civilized manner. We can prove that the relationship between the two is a guiding one because God speaks unto Abraham, saying “Be thou perfect” Gen 17.1, during the formation of the covenant. God means to guide Abram in two distinct ways to bring him closer to refinement. The first is changing Abram’s name to Abraham. This represents the changing of Abram’s purpose in life, away from a husband with no children, to a father of a multitude of nations. The second change is the

All of Abraham’s fortune was left to him and he was also blessed by god with good

Archaeologists estimated the man to be about thirty years old and using radio carbon or C14 dating the dated the man back to the 3rd century BC. This era was a transitioning age for the tribes of Germania as the abundance and superiority of iron over bronze was becoming more prevalent within the region.

God’s covenant with Abram, whose name was later changed to Abraham, was to be the father of many nations. The covenant includes promises concerning a land covenant, a seed covenant, and a blessing covenant. The foundation will flow out of the “Seed Covenant” to his descendants Isaac and Jacob, through whom the twelve tribes of Israel were born.

young. When he turned older he became wiser and had to go look for Sohrab and take care of

instead his father said he was fifty, but the same adjustment was made he was now forty.

Rashi explains: "he educated them l'mitsvot (in the commandments)." And it was probably not the first time he did this. At God's command Avraham leaves Haran with his wife, Sarai, his nephew, Lot, "v'et hanefesh asher asu b'charan" ("and the persons/souls they had acquired/made in Haran" [12:5]). Onkelos translates this as "the souls they brought into the realm of the Torah," and Rashi brings the Midrash that Abraham converted the men and Sara the women. The Chizkuni, a commentator from 13th France, goes one step further. He says about this phrase ("the souls they made in Haran") - kan matchil matan Torah, the Giving of the Torah starts here. Not with Moshe at Sinai, but with Avraham, the mechanech (educator), back in

Abraham, Isaac and Jacob… I have let you see it with your own eyes but

Further Sitchin claims that the Anunaki, in the persons of Emperor Anu, already a seasoned adult, and sons Enki and Enlil, who are already adults endowed with enough manhood to be sent to earth and start building projects, gold mining operations, etc. and all are purported to have still been very much engaged in earth’s affairs as late as the time of Abraham. That’s approaching a half million years just from the time of their purported arrival until Abraham. Add on an extensive period of their own growth from birth to manhood makes them then how old total? double? So Emperor Anu, approaching a million years of age?!

The language in the book of Genesis only occurs when there is a literal view of time. The fact was that the earth was without form and void may help us to understand why readings are sometimes so random and/or old. The writings of Scripture and the writings of Ellen White both argue for a young earth, although we cannot determine the exact date.

The bible does not indicate how long Abraham lived in Haran, but it does say that he remained there until his father’s death. At this juncture in Abraham’s life, God again called out to him.

     Abraham stands as one of the most important figures in the Hebrew Bible, and is central to the understanding of God’s solution to the problem of mankind. Man, the mysterious creature that God wraught as a semi-experiment, is constantly prone to believe he is self-sufficient and capable of survival without God, the central problem God must deal with in the Hebrew Bible. To solve this problem, God decides to strike fear in the heart of man and to revolutionise his lifestyle by creating laws and empowering a chosen group of people, who will spread the word of God by example. These people are the Hebrews, and Abraham is the father of their race, the man from whom all