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Originally Posted by Semper Fidelis Is it really any wonder why the Ishmaelites and Edomites no longer circumcised their offspring after the apostasy of their forefathers? Why shouldn't Ishmael's descendants still circumcise if, as argued, he was circumcised simply because he was Abraham's offspring and for on other significant reason? | Help me out Rich. I thought the Ishmaelites and the other descendants of Abraham continued to practice circumcision. That's what the Muslims claim, anyway.
I've probably missed something obvious. |
I might be wrong about Ishmaelites but there's certainly not any evidence in the Sriptures that they continued to do so at least. It's hard to trust a Muslim's history of events on these things. The Saudis claim Ishmael especially. I had a Saudi Officer once present the history of his country going back to the time in "history" when Abraham took his son Ishmael to a mountain in Saudi Arabia to sacrifice him on an altar at Allah's command. Allah stayed Abraham's hand right before he sacrificed him.
After the country brief, one of the U.S. Officers said: "Hey, that's just like in the Bible!"
"Not quite", I replied.