User blog comment:LurkerLordB/Religion in a world without Christianity/@comment-3218619-20120424222609/@comment-1777104-20120425213103

Lurker is reflecting modern scholarship that has been unable to find Abram/Abraham in ancient records. For this reason, it is assumed that Abraham is just a legend. Extreme examples of this same thinking reject the Exodus and even Solomon for the same reason. The Hebrew Scriptures are said to have been the invention of priests in the time after the exile, for the most part.

It is odd to some of us, but accepted by secular scholars the world around. The theory that the religion was invented from other sources holds for Islam as well. In this case, it is assumed that the trance from which Muhammed awoke was probably a dream brought on by his meditation some how. He would then 'build a religion' as based on the most vocal of his sources. In this case, that is assumed to have been Christianity. And so, Lurk asks us to consider the polytheistic religions instead. A good challenge, if any of us are up to it.