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welcome to bible stories we are Welcome to Bible Stories. We are your host, Matt.

Hello.

And Todd.

We are two ministers who love the stories of the Bible, and we want to share them with you.

And today's story is a humdinger.

Is it ever, Todd?

Today's story is special because it's an origin story.

And everybody loves a good origin story.

You look back at great characters, people like Batman.

Batman loses his parents in an alley and declares a war on crime.

Superman.

He's flung from his exploding planet as a baby and sent to Earth to protect it.

An origin story like Dorothy Zabornack.

Her marriage falls apart and she takes on three roommates, Blanche, Sophia, and Rose,

and they form a sassy quartet known as the Golden Girls.

Love that.

Well, today we're going to examine a real-life origin story.

It's the origin story of Israel, the nation itself.

Todd and I are going to introduce you, listener, to a man named Abram, a man of faith,

but also a guy who, like all of us, has shortcomings.

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