Originally Posted by Necropolis

Ah well, when I used the word "stole", that wasn't to you. My original post was in response to the OP. Stole was a bad choice of words on my part, and I am sorry.
Although my original response to the OP still stands. But only to the OP.
The fact is that whether you take, steal or plagerize an idea, the idea itself must still stand on its own merits. So whether or not Abraham copied it down word for word and his children changed the story a little every year, or he in an inventive fit rewrote the Myths. It means nothing, except that possibly Abraham was a very religious man inspired by religious fevour, could be a cunning man who worked out a way to control his own village, or many other options. We can not know Abrahams motives, but the religion itself the bible itself stands only by the ideas written within it regardless of source.