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AnswerBased on the evidence of The Bible, Abraham should have believed in one God, because by linking the the biblical stories we can see that Noah and all Abraham's subsequent direct ancestors would have been still alive until Abraham was in his sixties. Noah should have been able to tell Abraham and everyone else in the entire world, all descended from him, about his knowledge of God and his experience with the Flood. However, Noah disappears from the biblical narrative as soon as the story of the Flood is completed.

A well known Jewish midrash has it that Abraham, while still a young boy, realised that his father's idols had no power, and perceived that there is but one God. Bruce Feiler (Abraham) says that probably less than one per cent of the stories told about Abraham appear in the Bible, with an explosion of detail beginning to appear in Jewish tradition from the third century BCE onwards. In contrast to the midrash, the Bible itself never credits Abraham with monotheistic beliefs. If we rely on the Bible, there is no reason to believe that Abraham believed in only one God.

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The question is inaccurate. Abraham wanted all people to believe in the One God, not just his own descendants. This is the meaning of his "calling out in the name of the Lord" (Genesis ch.12). The reason that he wanted people to believe in the Creator is that the existence of God is the most important fact of all; and believing in idols is a corruption of this fact.http://judaism.answers.com/jewish-history/a-biography-of-abraham

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Because he believed in GOD. And there was only one God forever

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