[Alamo-Girl]

That other ancient manuscript would support your view that Abraham did not worship other gods, i.e. he saw them for what they were, man made objects.

[P-Marlowe]

I think Pastor Bill has made the logical jump that in order for Abraham to be justified by faith that he had to have committed some specific sin and therefore he MUST HAVE BEEN an idolater. But the justification by faith that forgives us of our sins does not require that we have any other sin upon our account than the sin of Adam which we have by virtue of our birth.

Joshua 24 does not allege that Abraham was an idolater. It does state quite categorically that Terah was an idolater but if God wanted us to know that Abraham was an idolater, I think that somewhere in the hundreds of references about Abraham in the Bible it would have stated so. Was he a sinner. Yes. That is a fact. Was he an idolater? We don't know from scripture. I don't think we should smear Abraham with that sin unless it has been made clear in the scripture.