Abrahim And Abrahmic Faiths

[Inqlabi]

I want to know who was Abraham and what are Abrahamic faiths views about him .

I want this in detail like What he is for Jews , Muslims and Christians.

[VanHelsingh]

Abraham

[Inqlabi]

Abraham

Whatever .

[VanHelsingh]

What do you mean 'whatever'?. You won't get much more detailed than that. Do you expect someone to write all that comprehensive information for you? That link will answer your questions and more!

[SikherOfTheNaam]

Abraham is said to be the father of the three great monotheistic religions - Judaism, Christianity and Islam, but he holds most significance with the children of Israel (Jews).

This is what wikipedia has to say on the matter...

For Jews

For Jews, Abraham is, through Isaac and Jacob, the founding patriarch of the children of Israel. God promised Abraham: "I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you."[Gen. 12:2] With Abraham, God entered into "an everlasting covenant throughout the ages to be God to you and to your offspring to come."[Gen. 17:7]

Abraham is primarily a revered ancestor or patriarch (referred to as Avraham Avinu אברהם אבינו "Abraham our father") to whom God made several promises: chiefly, that he would have numberless descendants, who would receive the land of Canaan (the "Promised Land.") According to Jewish tradition,[citation needed] Abraham was the first post-Flood prophet to reject idolatry through rational analysis, although Shem and Eber carried on the tradition from Noah.[dubious – discuss]

The nation of Israel was created by the story[clarification needed] which made all of them descendants of Jacob (Israel). All could claim fathers (the sons of Jacob and their offspring) who had been miraculously led out of Egypt and through the sea and the desert into the promised land. This was the covenant that was re-enacted in rituals and offerings of the annual festivals, and of course it's the story that is still celebrated and told, and present in ritual, in every Passover celebration today.

— Helmut Koester[42]

For Christians

Christians view Abraham as an important exemplar of faith, and a spiritual, as well as physical, ancestor of Jesus—a Jew considered the Son of God through whom God promised to bless all the families of the earth. For Christians, Abraham is a spiritual forebear as well as/rather than a direct ancestor depending on the individual's interpretation of Paul the Apostle,[Rom. 4:9-12] with the Abrahamic Covenant "reinterpreted so as to be defined by faith in Christ rather than biological descent" or both by faith as well as a direct ancestor; in any case, the emphasis is placed on faith being the only requirement for the Abrahamic Covenant to apply;[43] see also New Covenant. In Christian belief, Abraham is a role model of faith,[Heb. 11:8-10] and his obedience to God by offering Isaac is seen as a foreshadowing of God's offering of his son Jesus.[Rom. 8:32][44]

The tendency of Christian commentators to interpret God's promises to Abraham as applying to Christianity rather than Judaism, whose adherents rejected Jesus, is derived from Paul's interpretation of all descendants who believe in God as being spiritual descendants of Abraham.[Rom. 4:20] [Gal. 4:9][45] However, in both cases he refers to these spiritual descendants as the "sons of God"[Gal. 4:26] rather than "children of Abraham".[46]

For Muslims

There are several reasons that Abraham is significant in Islam. For Muslims, Abraham is a prophet, the "messenger of God" who stands in the line from Noah to Muhammad, to whom Allah gave revelations,[Qur'an 4:163], who "raised the foundations of the House" (i.e., the Kaaba)[Qur'an 2:127] with his first son, Isma'il, a symbol of which is every mosque.[47] Ibrahim (Abraham) is the first in a genealogy for Muhammad. Islam considers Abraham to be the "first Muslim" (Surah 3)—the first monotheist in a world where monotheism was lost, and the community of those faithful to God,[48] thus being referred to as ابونا ابرهيم or "Our Father Abraham", as well as Ibrahim al-Hanif or "Abraham the Monotheist". Islam holds that it was Ishmael, (Isma'il, Muhammad's ancestor) rather than Isaac, whom Ibrahim was instructed to sacrifice. In addition to this spiritual lineage, the northern Adnani Arab tribes trace their lineage to Isma'il, and thus to Abraham.[49] Abraham is also recalled in certain details of Muslim Hajj (pilgrimage).[50]

[Inqlabi]

What do you mean 'whatever'?. You won't get much more detailed than that. Do you expect someone to write all that comprehensive information for you? That link will answer your questions and more!

Sorry , i never checked that link i thought u are correcting my spelling mistake lol

[VanHelsingh]

Sorry , i never checked that link i thought u are correcting my spelling mistake lol

LOL. No problemo. I'm not a member of the Internet Grammar and Spelling Police! :cool2:

[gurdssingh]

Did you try a google search, wikipedia, other internet sources and christian, islamic and jewish sites etc. Before coming on Sikh Sangat, as that would have been a better start.