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Originally Posted by Semper Fidelis  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. |
Right, I've heard similar stories. I even had lunch once with an Iraqi officer sitting in the shade of a tank in the town of Ur. The birthplace of Abraham. He pointed out a stump and said it was the oak tree under which Abraham sat before leaving on his journey east.
There are pieces of the oak tree all over the middle east. Sort of like relics of the cross.
OK, back to the topic. I agree with you re the red herring issue that tries to ignore faith in the OC. I was noting that the Muslims seem to follow the same error (they are in the covenant, or at least some covenant, merely because they are circumcised).