Brahman

BRAHMAN: THE DISCOVERY OF THE GOD OF ABRAHAM: M. M. NINAN
CHAPTER III
CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM
Around 2000 BC there was a man named Abram living in Ur of the Chaldees who was a
descendant of Shem the son of Noah who survived the flood. He was one of the eight humans
survived the flood. The LORD appeared to Abram while he was living in Ur of the Chaldees and
promised “Get out of your country, from your family and from your father’s house, to a land that I will
show you” (Genesis 12:1).
“I will make you a great nation; I will bless you and make your name great; and you shall be a
blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you; and in you all the
families of the earth shall be blessed” (verses 2-3). Abram obeyed God. God changed Abram's
name to Abraham which means "father of many nations".
Ur was the land of Haran's nativity, (Ge 11:28) the place from which Terah and Abraham started "to
go into the land of Canaan." (Ge 11:31). It is called in Genesis "Ur of the Chaldaeans," while in the
Acts St. Stephen places it, by implication, in Mesopotamia. (Ac 7:2,4) It has been identified by the
most ancient traditions with the city of Orfah in the highlands of Mesopotamia, which unite the
table-land of Armenia to the valley of the Euphrates. In later ages it was called Edessa, and was
celebrated as the capital of Abgarus .
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