have been called by God to leave the house of his father Terah and settle in the land of Canaan, which God now promises to Abraham and his progeny. This...
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Abraham (Arabic: ابراهيم, romanized: Ibrāhīm) was a prophet and messenger of God according to Islam, and an ancestor to the Ishmaelite Arabs and Israelites...
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Abrahamic religions (redirect from Religion of Abraham)
relationship with their god, Yahweh, as a covenant and that the deity promised Abraham a permanent homeland. While the Book of Genesis speaks of multiple gods (ʾĔlōhīm)...
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God of Abraham (Yiddish: גאָט פֿון אַבֿרהם, pronounced Got fun Avrohom, Got fin Avruhom) is a Jewish prayer in Yiddish, recited by women and girls in many...
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of the Book of Genesis in the Hebrew Bible. In the biblical narrative, God orders Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac at Moriah. As Abraham begins to comply...
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The God of Abraham Praise is a Christian adaptation of the well known Jewish hymn "Yigdal", loosely translated and Christianised by the evangelist Thomas...
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In Judaism, God has been conceived in a variety of ways. Traditionally, Judaism holds that Yahweh—that is, the god of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and the...
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him. Abraham is cast into the fire and is saved by God. Abraham's brother Haran sees what happened and says that he believes in the God of Abraham. Haran...
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Vayeira (category Abraham)
cycle of Torah reading. It constitutes Genesis 18:1–22:24. The parashah tells the stories of Abraham's three visitors, Abraham's bargaining with God over...
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Allah (redirect from God (Arabic))
Arabic: ﷲ IPA: [əɫ.ɫɑːh] ) is the Arabic word for God, particularly the God of Abraham. Outside of the Middle East, it is principally associated with...
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consider the Quran, the foundational religious text of Islam, to be the verbatim word of the God of Abraham (or Allah) as it was revealed to Muhammad, the...
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Lech-Lecha (category Abraham)
cycle of Torah reading. It constitutes Genesis 12:1–17:27. The parashah tells the stories of God's calling of Abram (who would become Abraham), Abram's...
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"Say to the Israelites, 'The Lord, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob—has sent me to you.' This is my name...
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deity—is the focus of the Abrahamic religions, which like-mindedly conceive God as the all-powerful and all-knowing deity from whom Abraham received a divine...
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Religious exclusivism (redirect from Exclusivity of Christ)
Mu'tazilites. Most Jews believe that the God of Abraham is the one true God. The Jews believe the God of Abraham entered into a covenant with the ancient...
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Isaac (redirect from Islamic view of Issac)
"he will laugh", reflecting the laughter, in disbelief, of Abraham and Sarah, when told by God that they would have a child. He is the only patriarch whose...
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Hanif (section List of Arabian monotheists)
favourable light for shunning Arabian polytheism and solely worshipping the God of Abraham, thus setting themselves apart from what is known as jahiliyyah. However...
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Ishmael in Islam (redirect from Isma'il (Islamic View of Ishmael))
tradition says Abraham was ordered by God to take Hagar and Ishmael to Mecca, and later Abraham returned to Mecca to build the Kaaba. In many of these accounts...
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tells of the prehistory of Israel, God's chosen people. At God's command, Noah's descendant Abraham journeys from his birthplace (described as Ur of the...
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to take the name of the Lord in vain, for I am the Lord your God, even the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob. — Doctrine...
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Quraysh (redirect from List of chiefs of the Quraysh)
opposition grew as he challenged the existence of gods other than Allah (an Arabic name for God or the god of Abraham). As relations deteriorated, Muhammad and...
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between Abraham and God. According to Muslim tradition, this is the site in which an event occurred, which is described in the Quran, where God commanded...
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El (deity) (redirect from El (Canaanite god))
the God of the Jews evolved gradually from the Canaanite El, who was in all likelihood the "God of Abraham" ... If El was the high God of Abraham—Elohim...
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Ishmael (redirect from Mishma (son of Ishmael))
time of the covenant, God informed Abraham that his wife Sarah would give birth to a son, whom he was instructed to name Isaac. God told Abraham that...
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narrative God revealed himself to Abraham and made a covenant with him (in the site known nowadays as Mount Betarim), in which God announced to Abraham that...
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name of the God of Abraham. "Al ilah" means "The God", and it is a contraction of the definite article al- and the word ʾilāh (Arabic: إِلَٰه, "god, deity")...
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begins with Abraham's sacrifice to God, expanding and modifying the Biblical narrative of Genesis 15:8–17: The voice of God orders Abraham to prepare a...
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Abraham Lincoln (/ˈlɪŋkən/ LINK-ən; February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was the 16th president of the United States, serving from 1861 until his assassination...
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Laudate omnes gentes (category Order of Mass)
cum Deo Ábraham: * quóniam dii fortes terræ veheménter eleváti sunt. English O clap your hands, all ye nations: * shout unto God with the voice of joy, For...
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The Book of Abraham is a religious text of the Latter Day Saint movement, first published in 1842 by Joseph Smith. Smith said the book was a translation...
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