Grandizer, I don't think Abraham had any more of a privileged relationship with God than anyone else today has. I actually with Drich's assessment of Abraham's mistake. I believe he wanted compassion for "good" people and forgot that being good doesn't mean anything at all when all have sinned and all sins are equal.
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post
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