Children of Abraham:

About the Book

It all began with Abraham, and with his son Isaac and his older brother Ishmael. The question in dispute today is where it all ends – or should end. Does history lead us to a particular descendent of Ishmael, Mohammed of Mecca and the religion he founded? Or does it lead instead to a descendent of Isaac, Jesus of Nazareth and a competing religion – Christianity? Is there any hope of discovering which of the alternatives is the true path that we should embrace and follow? There is! For the Holy Book of one religion sets out a test – consistency – and then fails to pass it in a spectacular fashion. The Scriptures of the other religion, however, sets out a different test – meeting prophecy – and then stuns us by flawlessly passing not only it, but other book’s test as well. Step inside this short manuscript and we will journey through history, examining the lives of Abraham, Mohammed, and Jesus, and the religion each was intimately associated with. As we do so, we will make some amazing discoveries that may perhaps change forever your ideas about who Jesus and Mohammed were and what Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are all about.

About the Author

Michael Pendergast is a retired Strategic Air Command B-52 aircraft commander and acquisition engineer, as well as a former instructor of philosophy at a well-known Mid-western Christian university where he taught logic, introductory philosophy, and ethics. A philosopher and theologian, Major Pendergast holds degrees in engineering physics (including a minor in astrophysics), administration, international affairs, and philosophy. Widowed with three grown children, and now remarried, this graduate of Cornell University, Siena College, and the USAF Air War University lives and works in northern Maine, where he devotes much of his time to research and writing. The method to his research and writing is to establish a gestalt to understand the whole rather than merely the parts (as an example, it helps to know that science, philosophy, and theology are ultimately one and not distinctly separate disciplines). His ultimate goal is to find the real meaning of human life. His prior works include academic texts in philosophy (The Philosophy of the Human Soul and The Philosophy of Love), theology (Lord of the Impossible), and adventure/mystery (Assault on America), as well as science fiction and fantasy (The Beginning of the Beginning).