After the flood and Babel, Genesis slows down to focus on Abraham because God is re-launching His plan to bless the nations through one promised line. Yet Abraham’s story is not a straight line of heroic faith - it is a tense mix of obedience and compromise, worship and doubt, hope and exhaustion as years pass with no child. Under the pain of delay, he begins editing God’s promise to fit within human limits, even trying to settle for a more manageable path. Then, in a moment that captures the human heart, he falls on his face in reverence and still laughs under his breath, exposing how cynicism can live inside religious posture. But God answers not with explanations, but with a vision big enough to keep him waiting - stars that lift his eyes beyond what seems possible. Abraham keeps believing, imperfectly but sincerely, and God does something monumental: He counts that faith as righteousness and then binds Himself to the promise, taking the covenant weight on His own shoulders, pointing forward to the day Christ would be counted as sin so that faltering believers could be counted righteous by faith alone.