What role does Abraham play in Christianity, Judaism and Islam? Is there a link?
To make a long shory really short, in the book of Genesis, God creates the world and man but is unhappy with how man turned out. He throws his two children out of the nest to fend for themselves. Later he destroys all of mankind in a flood, wanting to start over, but he makes the mistake of seeding the new population with a sample from the old, so it doesn’t improve the stock at all. So finally he decides to pick one guy and make a deal with him. He says if you follow me and get your people to follow me, and to serve me, I will make your people powerful and prosperous, and prolific. You will rule the world. So long as you serve me. This is called ‘The Covenant’. The Jews believe they are the direct descendants of Abraham’s people (and chronologically they were first). They believe they are the ‘chosen people’ because of this covenant. They see it as a birthright, which is wrong. God only said ‘so long as you serve me’. It’s a contract that goes both ways. Christians believe that the Je
