When God called Abraham, he was an idolater. That is not surprising; for Ur was then an important center of paganism; and as we noted above, Terah, Abraham’s father, was an idolater who had led his family to also being idolaters. Scripture makes it clear that idolatry was practiced by the family of Terah (which included Abraham). “Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood [Euphrates River] in old time, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and