This probably isn't going to get much responses but I looking for reasons for why God called Abrahm out of Ur? Why Mesopotamia? Is their a stronger connection between our God and their gods. Alot of stories are similar. There seems to be a better flow from the Mesopotamian Enuma Elish (Babylonian Creation Story) and Genesis.
Now, I am not looking for some secular archeological answer like "because the authors of Genesis copied from the Enuma Elish". No, in my eyes, there was an Abrahm and God did want him to leave Ur because of its wickedness and God wanted to start a civilization of His own righteous people. Again though, why Ur and not Egypt, China, South America, or Africa?
To some degree, the Torah is a polemic against Egyptian gods and uses the culture that its original audience was familiar with as a contrast to teach them about what God is really like.
A chip off the old block is someone who has the same character/nature/image as their faith, which is expressed through doing the same works as them, which is why Jesus said in John 8:39 that if they were children of Abraham, then they would be doing the same works that he did, so the children of Abraham are multiplied in accordance with the promise and the Gospel of the Kingdom of God that was made known in advance to him (Galatians 3:8) by teaching others to turn from their wickedness and how to walk in God's way in obedience to His law. This is also why Romans 9:6-8 says that the children of Abraham is not referring to his physical descendants, but to those who have been taught to have faith in the promise.
In Genesis 18:19, God knew Abraham that he would teach his children and those of his household how to walk in God's way by doing righteousness and justice that the Lord may bring to him all that he promised, namely in Genesis 26:4-5, God would multiply his children as the stars in the heaven, to his children he would give all of these lands, and through his children all of the nations of the earth would be blessed because Abraham heard His voice and guarded His charge, His commandments, His statutes, and His laws. In Deuteronomy 30:16, if the children of Abraham will love God with all of their heart and soul by walking in His way by obeying His commandments, His statutes, and His laws, then He will bless them and they will multiply in the land that they go to possess, so all of the promises were made to Abraham and brought about because he walked in God's way in obedience to His law, he taught his children how to do that, and because they did that.
In Psalms 119:1-3, God's law is how the children of Abraham knew how to be blessed, so the way to inherit the promise through faith of being a blessing to the nations is by teaching the nations how to live blessed lives by turning them from their wickedness and teaching them how to walk in God's way in obedience to His law. Jesus, who is the way (John 14:6) was sent as the ultimate fulfillment of that promise to bless us by turning us from our wickedness. In Galatians 3:26-29, it connects being children of God through faith in Christ with being children of Abraham, heirs to the promise. So this is the sense that Jesus is the Son of God insofar as he is the exact image of God's nature (Hebrews 1:3), which he expressed through setting a sinless example of how to walk in God's way in obedience to His law, and that is the sense that we are children of God when we are partaking in the his nature through following his example. In Romans 3:31, our faith upholds God's law, and in 1 John 2:6, those who are in Christ are obligated to walk in the same way he walked, so every aspect of being children of God, through faith, in Christ, being children of Abraham, and heirs to the promise is all directly connected to being blessed and being a blessing to others by living in obedience to God's law and teaching others how to do that in accordance with the Gospel of the Kingdom of God (Matthew 4:15-23).
In Genesis 1:22, God commanded Adam and Eve to be fruitful and multiply, so He was not just speaking about having many children, but many children who were taught to be in the image of God, or in other words, who were children of God. By the time of the Flood, they had been fruitful and multiplied, but what they had filled the earth with was violence, so they were not multiplying the right thing. In Genesis 6:8-9, Noah found grace in the eyes of God, he was a righteous man, and he walk in God's way, but he was not busy multiplying the Kingdom of God because only his immediate family was saved. It wasn't until Abram of Ur in Genesis 12:1-5 that God found someone who was busy multiplying the Gospel of Kingdom that God found someone that He could make the promise to. The souls that they had made in Haran refers to making converts. So potentially God could have made the promise to anyone who stepped up to the plate, but it was Abram who first chose to do that.