The Account of Terah

Genesis 11:27-31
This is the account of Terah.
Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot. While his father Terah was still alive, Haran died in Ur of the Chaldeans, in the land of his birth. Abram and Nahor both married. The name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife was Milcah; she was the daughter of Haran, the father of both Milcah and Iscah. Now Sarai was barren; she had no children.
Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, the wife of his son Abram, and together they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to Canaan. But when they came to Haran, they settled there.

I have read this passage several times over the last few years. Each time I read it, I ponder if God had called Terah to go to Canaan. Going to Canaan is one of the things Hebrews 11 commends Abraham for. Verse 8 says that "By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going."

So it was an unknown place but this is where Terah was headed before he got comfortable in Haran.

This whole passage emphasizes James 2:17 and 19"In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead... You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that—and shudder." It seems like Terah knew God because even though Canaan was an unknown place to him and Abraham, they both wanted to go their. It seems that Terah did not accompany his belief in God with the action to do what God said. It seems like every one except for (Nahor Terah"s other son) had a belief in God but Abraham was the one that really put his faith into action.

Though this is all theory because the Bible doesn't really speak about why Terah wanted to go to Canaan or why Nahor didn't go with the rest of the family.