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C.
We are taught that. The Bible must confirm it, too.
M.
Can you show me where in the Bible it says that he is a Jew?
If you can’t find it easily, let me help you.
Read
Genesis 11:31
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C.
“And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his
son’s son, and Sarah his daughter-in-law, (Abram’s wife) and
they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into
the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran and dwelt there.”
M
. So Abraham was born in Ur of Chaldees and could not have
been a Jew. Firstly, Ur of Chaldees was in Mesopotamia, which is
now a part of Iraq. He was then more an Arab than a Jew.
Secondly the name Jew came after the existence of Judah, the
great-grandson of Abraham. Read further,
Genesis 12:4 & 5
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C.
“ . . . And Abram was seventy and five years old when he
departed out of Haran.... and into the land of Canaan they
came.”
M
. So Abraham emigrated to Canaan at the
age of seventy-five
years
and the Bible clearly mentions that he was there as a
stranger in
Genesis 17:8
: “And I will give unto thee, and to thy
seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land
of Canaan for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.”
Read also
Genesis 14:13
C.
“And there came one that had escaped, and told Abram the
Hebrew;”
M
. Can you see?
The Bible calls Abraham a Hebrew and not a
Jew.
Hebrew means a man from the other side of the Euphrates.
It also means pertaining to Eber, a descendant of Shem. Read in