The Qur’an contains 99 Arabic names (attributes or character traits) for the multifaceted essence of the one God, but not one of them connects the one God with one people, while one of the dozens of ...

However, God called Abraham to follow him and reject the gods of the people of Ur. When God called Abraham, he made a special promise with him called a covenant. A covenant is a two-sided promise ...

But a question remains. Why did God call on Abraham to challenge Him? Was there anything Abraham knew that God didn’t know? That idea is absurd. The answer is surely this: Abraham was to become ...

Led by God from Mesopotamia to the land of Canaan, Abraham entered into a covenant with the Lord that, once fulfilled, would see him father a great nation of kings.

Subsequently, God asks Abraham to execute Isaac ... for the spiritual deaths of all humanity. The story, often called The Binding of Isaac, has inspired everything from a Rembrandt painting ...