It is evident in the Genesis account that Abram had a religious encounter with a new Deity that became a life changing and revolutionary experience. So radical was the encounter that Abram even heard the voice of his new God and his message challenged Abram like never before. How long this new found relationship existed is curious, but his new God appeared to him and said, "Get out of your country and from your people and come into a land that I will show you." Thus the journey for Abram began.