Abraham and the Idol Shop Abraham and the Idol Shop Abraham and the Idol Shop appears in Genesis Rabbah chapter 38 and is a biblical commentary on the early life of Abraham. The commentary explains what happened to Abraham when he was a young boy working in his father's idol shop. The story has been used as a way to discuss monotheism and faith in general. Abraham is the first patriarch and is seen as the father of the four Abrahamic religions, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and the Baha'i faith. The later life of Abraham is told in the book of Genesis Chapters 11-25. The missing
Abrahamic religions with Jewish, Muslim, and Bahá'í concepts of monotheism. Since the conception of a divine Trinity is not amenable to "tawhid", the Islamic doctrine of monotheism, Islam regards Christianity as variously polytheistic . Christianity, Islam, and the Bahá'í Faith each revere Jesus (Arabic: "Isa" or "Yasu" among Muslims and Arab Christians respectively) but with vastly differing conceptions: However, the worship of Jesus, or the ascribing of partners to God (known as "shirk" in Islam and as "shituf" in Judaism), is typically viewed as the heresy of idolatry by Islam and Judaism and as misguided by the Bahá'ís. Judaism, Islam, and the