Christians have long deemed Abraham the “Father of Faith,” and here we consider why. It was through Abraham that God promised to bring about a great nation, offspring who would impact the whole world through the ages to come. Abraham’s became a story of learning to trust in that promise and in the Lord who had given it, most notably through the near-sacrifice of Isaac, the firstborn son of his wife, Sarah. It is through Abraham’s narrative that we meet Melchizedek, a priest of God whose identity would become central to the Judeo-Christian story.

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