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No one knows what impact a life may have on the world. Yet, 1 billion Christian, 1.2 billion Muslims, and nearly 15 million Jews call Abraham the founder of their religion (Origins of Christianity www.ethicalatheist.com). This paper will show how Abram of the Chaldees became Abraham (or Ibrahim) the Patriarch, father of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam through choices he made, as well as a physical and spiritual journey. The story of Abram begins in Genesis when he and his wife Sarai followed his father Terah as they left Ur of the Chaldees to go into Canaan (Genesis 11:27-31). Ur was located on the Euphrates River, just north of the Persian Gulf and was already 1,500 years old and at its cultural height, while Canaan, located in present day Israel, was considered more of a wilderness area, and controlled by the Egyptians (Gardner 52, 57). The journey followed the Euphrates River north then crossed to the Mediterranean Sea coast. Abram's family never made it as far as Canaan this time, however, and settled in Haran where Terah
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