I keep running into Bible stories and other communications where Genesis 15.6 is interpreted as Abraham’s conversion.
And he believed the Lord, and he counted it to him as righteousness.
But that simply isn’t true. This statement, showing that God justifies the one who has faith in him, is a claim about an ongoing reality in Abraham’s life.
Abraham’s faith is visible from his response (Genesis 12.4) to God’s call (Genesis 12.1-3). Thus Hebrews tells us,
By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place that he was to receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going.
I might add the passage from James 2 that indicates Abraham’s sacrifice of Isaac as the (a?) point at which Abraham “believed God.” Abraham “believed,” and his “faith was made complete by what he did.”