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Mainstream of History of Civilization
Roughly speaking mankind started its history of civilization when ancient Egyptians built the Great Pyramids in Giza 550 years before Abraham started to leave a territory of a Sumerian kingdom in Mesopotamia.
Roughly speaking, the mainstream of our history of civilization is as follows:
2500 BC - The Great Pyramids are built in Giza, Egypt.
2000 BC - Abraham leaves Ur, heading for Canaan and traveling even to Egypt.
1500 BC - Moses was born while Hebrews stay in Egypt.
1000 BC - King David set the capital of his kingdom in Jerusalem.
500 BC - The Old Testaments are compiled. The Buddha starts to preach. Confucius travels to establish his school of philosophy. Socrates enhances Greek philosophy.
AD 1 - Christ Jesus was born; Judaists are expelled from Jerusalem and Judea by Romans.
500 - The Western Roman Empire falls while Christianity is prevailing with the Vatican.
1000 - The first Crusade fights Muslims occupying Jerusalem.
1500 - Judaists and Muslims are driven out of Western Europe and Columbus reaches America.
2000 - Second Coming of Christ expected after Judaists have returned to Jerusalem and Judea.
This is mainstream history of mankind whether you love it or not.
We have to think about what to do as a member of mankind in the last phase of our history.
The Bible shifts its focus in Genesis 12 from the history of the entire human race to a man named Abram, the first Hebrew, and he lived in Ur of the Chaldees. Later God appeared to Abram and promised him that if he would leave his country and journey to a land that he has never seen, God would make of his descendants a great nation and through them the Savior of the world would come, through his "seed." Later God changed his name to Abraham which means "father of a many nations" and he obeyed God and journeyed to the land of Canaan. The Lord also spoke a promise that anyone who blessed Abraham and his descendants would be blessed and anyone who cursed Abraham and his descendants would be cursed.By the way, every scholar today believes that Abraham and his clan were not Sumerians. But the most glorious tribe in the ancient Mesopotamia is Sumerians. Abraham must have shared this glory. Abraham must be of Sumerian origin, though he and his tribe adopted Semitic as their descendants later adopted Aramic, Greek, Latin, Germany, English, etc.
http://www.bible-history.com/maps/6-abrahams-journeys.html
We had better think that Abraham was from Sumerians to be parallel with King Khufu and ancient Egyptians who built the Great Pyramids in Giza.
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Mar 7:9 And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.
Mar 7:10 For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death:
Mar 7:11 But ye say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, It is Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; he shall be free.
Mar 7:12 And ye suffer him no more to do ought for his father or his mother;
Mar 7:13 Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.