Did Israel's origin through Abraham happen by accident?
No. Israel’s origin through Abraham did not happen by accident. God sovereignly pulled Abraham out of the mainstream of humanity and, by an act of a sovereign God, brought about the nation of Israel. The biblical account presents this as deliberate divine action, not chance, through the man first called Abram.
Les teaches that after the tower of Babel and the scattering of humanity, another 200 years went by, and then God did something totally different. God pulled out of the mainstream of humanity this man Abraham, and He brought about the nation of Israel by an act of a sovereign God. Les emphasizes that this did not happen accidentally. Instead, God sovereignly pulled Abraham out of the mainstream of humanity through the man Abram, as he was first called, and promised him the nation of Israel.