Reflections on Abraham
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Abraham and Melchizedek in the Loggia di Raffaello in Vatican City.[/caption]
What is a father?
Genesis presents Abraham as being the father of many nations.The whole Bible presents the Israelites as the ‘sons of Abraham’ on multiple occasions.
The New Testament, in particular, presents anybody with appropriate faith in God (whatever that means…but usually faith in Christ) as a child of Abraham.
This is significant for many reasons, not the least of which is that the father in the Bible is a figure for the accumulated wisdom of the past in a way that is indicative of a divine voice:[1]