Father Abraham's Wisdom

I am reading on Monotheistic legends, mostly Jewish. Religious, scholarly Jews through the milleniums are a tradition. On top of the Torah, they have scholarly teachings such as the Mishnah and the Talmud where they study and discuss the origins of their faith and the Bible.

The origins of Abraham from Ur in Chaldea have it that he was the son of an idol maker. The Chaldeans are the ones that made the Tower of Babel, hoping to build a structure so tall as to save themselves from any future flood as occured in the time of Noah, but further they took their gods of stone with them. They shot arrows into the air hoping to kill the heavenly spirits that dwelled there and to take over heaven. Of course, the tower was destroyed and the people scattered and unable to understand the languages of the next.

So, Abraham, who first discovered God and made a convenant with Him, thought it foolish to worship these stone and metal gods that he watched his father make. Once someone stole an idol and Abraham had contempt for anything that could not protect itself. Once someone brought a meal of goat stew to feed and please the gods and Abraham took advantage of that and destroyed them all but the biggest. When his irate father asked how that happened Abraham replied that they quarreled over the food. His father found that impossible to believe since he had only just made the idols himself. Abraham then smashed the one remaining idol and accused his father of blasphemy.

So, how did Abraham find the one true God? By seeking Him. God could not be the fire if water can drown it out. It can not be water if the dust can devour it. It can not be the dust if the wind can blow it. It cannot be the wind nor the heavenly bodies because they come and go whereas God is eternal. It must be an omnipotent, invisible being and he sought Him out.

The Chaldeans were big on astrology. Father Abraham did not disavow such, but considered it likewise foolish. Why look to the sun and stars, he asked, but seek the God who created them.