[MHGinTN]

Abraham was the father of Ishmael, then to Isaac, then to, I think, thirteen more boys and I have no idea how many girls. He was a party to one, count them, ONE, covenant with the Lord God Of Hosts. Abraham is not the father to three religions. The only religion that could lay claim to Abraham being the father of it would be Judaism, since that is the only 'religion' he practiced once he covenanted with YHWH, the legalisms/sacrificial strictures of Judaism that is.

[CdMGuy]

Right you are. As a Catholic with 16 years of Catholic schooling, I never once was taught that Abraham was the father of Christianity. That is plain silly. Abraham is a great figure in the history of Judaism. Jesus was a Jew from whom Christianity flowed. Catholics have great respect for the elders of the Old Testament, but to say that anyone of them, Abraham, Moses, Jacob, etc. was a father of Christianity and Islam is absurd. Looks like just more PC thinking to me.

[LostTribe]

>The only religion that could lay claim to Abraham being the father of it would be Judaism, since that is the only 'religion' he practiced

More like PRE-Judaism, since Abraham was not a Jew. Neither was Jacob/Israel nor the 12 sons. They were all Hebrews, and Israelites, but there were no Jews until the Southern Kingdom was formed ~922BC.