Abraham is one the most recognizable names for all the world in history. Who is Abraham to the Christian? I like the Message wording. Abraham is our "Faith Father."
"For Abraham is father of us all. He is not our racial father—that's reading the story backward. He is our faith father."
In the NIV version, in the same passage, I like the description of faith..."calls things that are not as though they were."
"Therefore, the promise comes by faith, so that it may be by grace and may be guaranteed to all Abraham's offspring—not only to those who are of the law but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham. He is the father of us all. As it is written: "I have made you a father of many nations."He is our father in the sight of God, in whom he believed—the God who gives life to the dead and calls things that are not as though they were."
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